Dark Age Of Camelot: The Daedalus Project

The Daedalus Project (http://www.nickyee.com/daedalus) is an ongoing online survey study of MMORPG players that has surveyed over 35,000 players. Some highlights of the current issue's findings:

- 20% of players role-play at least once a week. 28% of players indicated that at least one of their characters belong in a role-playing oriented guild. 24% of players have role-played a scene or event with a group of at least 10 players: Link

- Role-players talk about which character creations they feel are over-used and what counts as original: Link

- What are the protocols of role-playing? What makes a role-player a good role-player: Link

- 80% of female players and 60% of male players have flirted with another player in an MMO. 50% of female players and 22% of male players have developed romantic feelings for another player: Link