Women Over 40 Biggest Online Gamers

Ooby writes "MSNBC and Reuters are reporting that women over 40 are the biggest online gamers, according to a study conducted by AOL. What's even more interesting than being outnumbered by middle aged and older women is this: 'More than a quarter of those women, the survey found, play their favorite games between midnight and 5 a.m. Women in the poll tended to favor word and puzzle games.' I thought that was prime time for FPS kids."

I -knew- it!

[Mordant]

Man, that explains why that choad who keeps kicking my ass at CounterStrike uses 'MrsRobinson' as her handle, and keeps making off-the-wall references to Botox and estrogen therapy while she's fragging my ass into oblivion!

Balanced survey?

[bartjan]

"The survey was conducted online with 3,613 respondents between mid-December and mid-January, the company said."

I guess they forgot to mention that the survey was only open between midnight and 5 a.m. during that period and placed only on webpages containing word games and puzzles?

Women over 40 online

[schnits0r]

I tinhk you misunderstood what they mean by "biggest".

I'm Sorry But Someone Has To Say It

[kaellinn18]

Maybe it's because women over 40 are the only ones gullible enough to be using AOL? :-) Here come the flamebait mods!!

Sims Online

[mhesseltine]

For some reason, women love the Sims games. More than likely, they're up at all hours running their little Sims' lives.

I guess that keeps them from running our lives, though. </flamebait>

Women over 40...First Person Shooters

[atomic-penguin]

Picture middle aged women everywhere yelling "200 Frags Per Hour, woohoo!"

Re:Sure is

[edbarrett]

Why can't I have a normal mother that just bakes cookies instead of talking to dirty old men on the Internet? (she's a widow)

Because your moms is human too. How do you think you got here?

Biggest?

[heliocentric]

Biggest Online Gamers

Great, so they are old, but do you really have to call them "fat," too?

Re:who conducted the survey?

[WordUpCousin]

But can we really trust AOL w/ these type of polls/rankings? Remember a few years back when they stated Cindy Margolis as the most downloaded... when none of us have ever heard of her?

The Survey

[ReciprocityProject]

Earn 20,000,000,000 FREE hours of AOL! Before you can sign on, please just fill out this short survey. The information you provide will help us better serve you!

1. Compared to men or teens, how much time do 40 year old women spend playing online games?
o 0-10% More
o 11-20% More
o 21-30% More
o 31-40% More
o 41-50% More
o 51-60% More

2. Are 40 year old women, on average, more likely to play online games than men or teens?
o Yes
o No
o Note Sure

3. Do 40 year old women convert their online relationships into real-life relationships, if they in fact have any online relationships?
o Yes
o No
o Note Sure

4. Are you a 40 year old woman?
o Yes
o No
o Not Sure

5. Have you or do you plan to respond to this survey?
o Yes
o No
o Not Sure

6. If you answered yes to the above two questions, do you spend less time watching TV or movies, reading or being physically active because of your online game play?
o Yes
o No
o Not Sure
o I did not answer yes to the above two questions
o I'm not sure if I answered yes to the above two questions

7. Who is conducting this survey?
o Services for Digital Marketing
o Digital Marketing Services
o Marketing Services, Digital
o Marketing Digital Services

8. When do you prefer to play online games?
o Midnight - 1:00 AM
o 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM
o 2:00 AM - 3:00 AM
o 3:00 AM - 4:00 AM
o 4:00 AM - 5:00 AM

9. Which of the following cities strikes you as most "game happy:"
o Chicago and New York
o San Francisco and Orlando
o Atlanta and Boston
o Paris and Berlin

10. (Last question) How many people are responding to this survey?
o 12,214
o 15
o 1,243
o 7,654
o 3,613

11 (We lied) This survey was conducted between:
o Mid-December and mid-January
o Early December and early January
o Late December and late January

Well, of course...

[scot4875]

Twenty-eight percent of them play games between midnight and 5:00 a.m., considerably more than men or teenage game-players.

Well, yeah. Midnight to 5:00 a.m. is pr0n time for those other demographics.

--Jeremy