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Re:The demographics of social gamers are closer to gambling ... by nik_0_0 on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @02:00PM (#3453108)
Interesting, I always saw the uprise of social games as quite confusing, since myself as a gamer saw no need for these games. It makes sense that these Farmville/Social City/Zynga games then be targeted towards this new, untapped group. I find the Zynga numbers to be interesting, but the correlation confuses me. Is it completely out of left field to follow the 81% gambling figure to correlate that that number of women are visiting casinos/e-casinos and gambling? That seems like a HUGE number.
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Re:The demographics of social gamers are closer to gambling ... by davidtyleryork on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @02:02PM (#3453116)
Hey nik, thanks for the comment. So you know, the number is that 81% of women prefer to play slots when they go to casinos. This doesn't mean that they are 81% of slot machine players (the actual ratio is closer to 52% male, 48% female).
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Re:The demographics of social gamers are closer to gambling ... by nik_0_0 on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @02:17PM (#3453189)
That makes far more sense :) Thanks for the clarification, I didn't read the data closely enough.
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Re:The demographics of social gamers are closer to gambling ... by PeterInouye on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @02:17PM (#3453188)
It's definitely true that different demographics crave different types of competition!
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