The Problem of Popularity of Genres of Digital Online Games: Experience of Sociological Research of Russian Gamers

2017; RELX Group (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

ISSN

1556-5068

Autores

Mariia Rubtcova, Oleg Pavenkov,

Tópico(s)

Digital Games and Media

Resumo

Our investigation is devoted to the problem of popularity digital online games according players’s opinion. We made sociological investigation of 220 of gamers in Russia (St. Petersburg). The main research method is questionnaire. The questionnaire was conducted to reveal typology digital online games. 48% of gamers mentioned MMORPG genre as the most popular for them. So it is the most popular genre according to Russian gamers. 24% of respondents mentioned mass strategic games. 17% of participants prefer to play in mass quizzes. 14% of gamers mentioned MMORTS and only 5% chose MMOCWRPG. The results of the research show that Russian players prefer to play in MMORPG. Popularity of this genre is still on the highest level. So we made the conclusion MMORPG genre is the most popular genre of digital online games in Russia (St. Petersburg).

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