This document summarizes research conducted on online gaming communities in Croatia. The researchers surveyed 166 gamers aged 13-43 to understand their demographic characteristics, gaming preferences, and attitudes. Key findings include that most respondents were male students around 23 years old with monthly gaming budgets under €100. The majority played games on PC and enjoyed multiplayer gameplay. Respondents also generally disagreed with stereotypes about female gamers and cosplayers. Personality traits like honesty-humility and extraversion correlated with preferences for certain genres and social behaviors. Overall, participants appeared fairly tolerant of different gaming styles and communities.

1. Online Gaming Communities in
Croatia
First author: Tea Šango (tsango@student.unizd.hr )
Second author: Tomislav Rajković (trajkovic@student.unizd.hr )
Mentors: Drahomira Cupar(dgavrano@unizd.hr ) and Josip Čirić(jciric@unizd.hr)
University of Zadar, Croatia
Department of information science

2. Introduction
• Phenomena of video-games.
• No strict definition of gamers.
• Several approaches.
• Attitudes, behavior of gamers in Croatia.
• Gaming communities.
• Connections.
• How do they perceive each other.
• Characteristics of players.

3. • Research goals:
– To see the demographic and psychosocial characteristics of
gamers.
– How do they perceive players who play on other game
consoles.
– How do they perceive other players of their favourite
games.
– To see their attitudes towards gaming in general.
– To check if there is any regularity considering personality
traits.

4. Methodology

5. Results
• Age: 13-43 (N=166 M=23.90 sd=5.54 Shapiro-
Wilkis=.946 p<.01)
• Males – 76,3% ; Females – 20,4% ; LGBTQ - 2,9%.
• Median – 23 years ; Mode – 22 years.
• Major grups
• Pupil/students – 45.7%
• Employed – 36.7%
• Monthly budget
• -35€ - 46.5%
• 100€ - 17.0%
• 500€ - 63.7%
• +1000€ – 11.1%

6. • Entertainment
• Computer games – 85.9%
• Gathering with friends – 65.2%
• Watching TV – 45.1%
• Partners – 34.8%
• Breaking the stereotyse
• Having a partner – 44%
• Hanging out with their partner – 34.8%
• Having a pet – 49.5%

7. • Living situation
• Own apartment – 64.7%
• With parents – 48.1%
• With partner – 20.3%
• Most common real life social networks – 5 to
10 people.
• Most common platform - PC (desktop) 75.7%

8. • Favorite feature
• Gameplay and multiplayer
• Least favorite feature
• Community, graphics, brief gameplay
• E-sport - 50%
• Getting their fix
• Buying on-line - 70.5%
• Piracy - 56.7%
• Bargain sales – 46.0%

9. Games

10. Confronting stereotypes
• Disagreement
• „Typical gamer has no life beyond video games” -
86.2%
• „Female gamers are marketing gimmick” – 60.2%
• „Female gamers play video games casually” – 55.3%
• „Cosplayers are weird” – 48.9%
• „Female characters are over-sexualized” – 34.6%
• „Female gamers are as successful as male gamers” –
13.1%

11. Hexaco
• Honesty-humility correlated with writting
game instructions.
• Extraversion correlated with meeting other
gamers in real life.
• Openness to experience related to cRPG
• Honesty-humility negatively related with FPS
and action games.

12. • Our participants are rather tolerant group of
young people.

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