U.S. And.. Iceland Dominate Online FPS Stats

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to the CSports survey showing that, over the online gaming networks they monitor, the U.S. has the most online FPS gamers, but Iceland comes out on top in terms of minutes played per person, taking into consideration the entire population of the country. The article elaborates: "Our analysis.. shows that the Nordic countries are generally the most online game crazy. Top of the charts by a country mile are the 280,000 or so Icelanders who clock in with over 7 hours of online fps game play per capita per year."

Pah

[isorox]

Top of the charts by a country mile are the 280,000 or so Icelanders who clock in with over 7 hours of online fps game play per capita per year."

When it's 7 hours a day, I'll be interested!

Re:Pah

[Daetrin]

Given that the US, which scored #1 in the other list, is playing only about an hour and forty five minutes a year per capita, i fail to see what you're complaining about.

If Icelanders had 7 hours a _day_ per capita, they'd probably out rank the US for _total_ number of hours played. It's hard to say, since Iceland didn't make it onto the first chart, but if Sweden played 7 hours a day per capita, they would be #1 in the total hours playes chart at 95.0%, and the US would come in at number two with 2.1%.

Top Countries

[isorox]

In the top countries are

1) Iceland
2) Sweeden
5) Norway
6) Finland

Something to do with the long depressing nights at those altitudes? Some people spend time in sauna's, some write Linux, some play FPS's.

Many of the others near the top, San Marino (3), Liechenstein (7), Singapore (10), Gibralter (11), Macau (12) are tiny countries so the stats may seem a little off - they lack the rural rednecks (and their equivelents) that bring the U.S, UK, and Germany's per capita stats down.

The non-nordic sutibally large countries are Denmark, Netherlands, Austrailia, and the U.S.

Finland, for pony trekking and tea

[Jouni]

It's not true that we'd get less sunlight here in Finland; our sunlight is simply unevenly distributed. Our winter nights are long and dark, our summer nights short and sweet. Up North, we get the midnight sun and literally no nights for months on end.

However, our population is sparse and I believe distance plays heavily into this pattern. Finland has roughly equivalent land mass compared to England, and carries only a tenth of the population. That's a lot of forest.

In a high-tech country, separated far from your friends, using a computer for company and communication becomes a lot more attractive. We are to blame for IRC [undernet.org], Linux [go.com] and Nokia [mobiletechnews.com], how's that for a pattern?

The links are all appropriately chat-related...

Jouni

Re:Finland, for pony trekking and tea

[isorox]

Obviously every point on earth (well, assuming that Earth was a perfect sphere, and you didnt have mountains blobking the view to the sun) gets 12 hours a day over the course of a year. However most people sleep at night. At the equator you get 12 hours per day, and 4 hours per night of being awake, and sleep for 8 hours of being awake. You are awake in the sun 3 times longer then in the night.

Over the course of a year, you are awake in light for 12*365 hours a year

Now at the poles, In summer you get 24 h

Re:Top Countries

[TripleA]

You do know that in the summer, the sun never goes down either?

Re:Top Countries

[Rip!ey]

You do know that in the summer, the sun never goes down either?

What, like a geeks non-existant girlfriend?

Re:Top Countries

[shaitand]

Man you need to cut this crap out, I'm a geek and my girl is going down on me as I type this. So much for that joke ;)s

Re:Top Countries

[Anonymous Coward]

The non-nordic sutibally large countries are Denmark, Net

FOI: Denmark IS part of scandinavia, and have always (and always will i guss) been a part or the nordic contries. You should be modded "-1 bad geography skills"...

Re:Top Countries

[isorox]

Indeed, however its nowhere near the arctic circle, so the long nights dont apply. Estonia and Latvia get longer nights in winter, but they arent counted as nordic.

So yes, saying Denmark is a "non-nordic" country is incorrect, however I was using nordic as a replacement for "countries with excessively long nights/days"

Well, if you practically live on the north pole...

[J_DarkElf]

What else is there to do than play games?

Sex? I get all I need from Leisure Suit Larry :D

Country size vs. HDI

[TripleA]

It does not have much to do with these countries being boring. Hovewer, if you check the HDI ratings for the countries on the list, you will find something interresting.

In the mean time...

[M3wThr33]

3 more Korean gamers died today playing Diablo 2 for over 72 hours straight.

America's Army

[bigman2003]

This explains all the damn fur-in-ers on America's Army.

You wanna know why the non-American's annoy me so much on that game?

Because a bunch of jackass American's always want to say "this is our game, go away and have your country make thier own.." Now THAT is annoying.

High Tech, Low Pop

[Typhon100]

I would speculate that the reason is the the nordic countries are some of the most advanced tech-wise (as in lots of people have computers, broadband, etc) yet they have such low populations that its easy to have high "per capita" numbers.

If you took the US's total playing time, and divided it by Iceland's total population, you'd probably come out with something like 27 hours per capita per day. Yah.