• @simple@lemm.ee
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    249 hours ago

    Saw this article before and the title is very misleading. 53% is barely “most”, and the biggest takeaway from it is that gamers age 16-24 greatly prefer multiplayer games while people aged 25-34 prefer multiplayer as much as singleplayer. Those age groups are probably most of the market.

    • @iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
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      218 hours ago

      53% is barely “most”

      This is a really bizarre point to try to make, to me. The headline doesn’t say “the vast, overwhelming percentage of gamers”… It says most. 53% is most.

      The bigger problem I had was with the categories, really.

      • @simple@lemm.ee
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        -117 hours ago

        That 3% could be a rounding error, “most” implies a much bigger difference, the title should say that half gamers prefer singleplayer games.

        • @Shiggles@sh.itjust.works
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          105 hours ago

          It doesn’t though. It doesn’t even need to mean more than half, it means more than anything else. If there are 8 groups of 10 and 1 group of 20, the last group has the most members.

    • @Vent@lemm.ee
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      249 hours ago

      People with lots of time and friends prefer multiplayer games more than people with little time and friends. Go figure.

    • warm
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      08 hours ago

      Yeah, multiplayer is preferred in their data until the 45+ age ranges. Weird article.