Wishing to thoroughly understand the situation, the Netherlands Spil Games conducted a fantastic job - interviewed more than 50 million people all around the world gathering data from different sources.
According to this information people playing more and more, here is why: games help kill time, forget about current problems, just relax and of course enjoy cool gameplay.
Year after year the quality of online games quickly improving, and the number of players unstoppably rises. Today there are more than 1.2 billion players, 700 million of them prefer online games.
At the same time people continue spending on games more time, not mentioning the fact that they play now everywhere: on the bed or on the couch, watching TV or waiting for a meeting, or in the transport ... and it is no secret - in the toilet.
As for other statistics - it shows that contrary to many stereotypes the ratio of boys and girls who play almost equal: 54% vs 46%. Moreover games is not associated only with children or teenagers more mature people are prefer playing games. About half of people over 45 who use the internet - playing games, and surprisingly now preponderance of players on the women's side - 41% vs 37%.
Full version of the report “State Of Online Gaming” made by Spil Games company can be found here:
http://auth-83051f68-ec6c-44e0-afe5-bd8902acff57.cdn.spilcloud.com/v1/archives/1384952861.25_State_of_Gaming_2013_US_FINAL.pdf
Unfortunately, the article completely missed very important aspect of online gaming - communication! In fact online games are all about interacting people with each other. We believe that people need more communication now like never before. We encourage to be more social and do not hesitate to make new friends in the online games.
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