Just some Questions about Escapist

[CSidgwick]

Im doing a games development course and one of my assignments is a research project for magazines and The Escapist is one if the magazines i have chosen so i was hoping the community could andswer a few questions for me.

- Age
- Social/Economic Group -- This means class if you dont know ;D
- Gender
- Main Reason you read The Escapist

Note - I realise this has been asked before but this is from other people on the same course as me, this particular part of my research must be primary so please dont refer me to any previous posts. Ty

 

[manic_depressive13]

Woah, you could try to be more subtle about using us.

- 17
- White/ middle class
- Female
- I find some segments amusing and other segments informative. [sub]*cough Yahtzee cough*[/sub]

Good luck.

 

[Jonny1188]

Twenty two, poor, male and because Yahtzee is a cheeky bastard... er... I mean the writers find a way to make even mundane articles seem somewhat interesting, and the editorials are interesting and respectable because they don't always conform to what necessarily the most popular thing at the time.

I am still pretty mad though that Yahtzee ripped off my gaming tastes (i.e. hating CoD and Halo, and thinking a single player campaign should carry a game on its own) and claim to Silent Hill 2 being a godly game. [/jk]

 

[TriGGeR_HaPPy]

FIRST: Welcome to The Escapist. ^_^

Age: 19

Social/Economic group: I'm assuming you mean, like... Class? Then upper-middle class, I guess. Well, my parents are. I'm probably more middle/lower-middle class.
Currently in Uni in Australia, doing my Bachelor of Computer Science. Don't have a job (living off a first-year scholarship, which I was very lucky to get), but will be getting one at the end of this year.
(If you mean something else, then I'll edit this post.)

Gender: Male.

Main reason I read The Escapist: Actually, for the most part, I've been a member so long for the community and threads made by other members, as well as The Escapist's content (namely Zero Punctuation, but a few other shows/comics too). However, every so often an article will come along that'll tickle my interest, and I'll have a compulsion to read it.
Every article I've read I've either agreed with, or at least understood the points that the staff at The Escapist are trying to make. So, in short, even if sometimes our opinions differ (luckily only sometimes ), the staff thinks very much like how I think.

Hope that helps.

 

[TeeBs]

17
High-Middle class
Male
Seems a little bit more mature then the last forum based site I was in, though I found out about escapist through zero punctuation.

 

[RaphaelsRedemption]

-23
-female
-low-earning
-lower-middle class

I read the Escapist because I love games and especially the thinking and design behind games. The Escapists offer me interesting and informative articles on a wide range of gaming-related topics, as well as well-run forums, clever videos and a good community.

 

[SamiusB]

lol sorry XD but i see no demands in his post

 

[Brutal Peanut]

-22
-Native American/Hispanic(So brown basically)/Caucasian
-Upper middle class.
-Female
-Nearly everything here relates to my interests. Amusing and informative.

 

[Betancore]

Wow, so everyone from your course is just hopping on the Escapist to ask the same questions?

I'm 15, I guess I'm somewhere around middle-class, although I personally am an unemployed student who's still dependant on her parents, I'm female, and I mainly read the Escapist for the weekly articles and the videos. The articles usually offer a slightly different perspective to the ones I get from the other gaming magazines I read, and unlike said magazines, they're free. So yeah. That's always a bonus.

 

[Fredrikorex]

- I'm 16
- High-Middle class
- Male
- News about games and stuff

 

[Kurokami]

Im doing a games development course and one of my assignments is a research project for magazines and The Escapist is one if the magazines i have chosen so i was hoping the community could andswer a few questions for me.

- Age
- Social/Economic Group -- This means class if you dont know ;D
- Gender
- Main Reason you read The Escapist

Note - I realise this has been asked before but this is from other people on the same course as me, this particular part of my research must be primary so please dont refer me to any previous posts. Ty

19.
Middle Class if you don't take 'student' as a class of its own.
Male.
I read some of it because I consider myself a gamer and can associate with most of its articles and featured shows, I also very much enjoy the forums as its a chance to chat to considerably intelligent people in a well moderated forum.

 

[Dr. Awesome Face]

22
Lower-Middle class
Male
I love games and enjoy catching up on all the news as well as the insights on the industry offered on this site.

Good luck

 

[manic_depressive13]

lol sorry XD but i see no demands in his post

I'm going to assume you're refering to my post, and true, he is making a request rather than a demand. I was just having a laugh because most people at least comment in other threads and hang around a bit before using us to gather statistics, unlike Mr OP who seems to have only made his account so he can gather information and probably doesn't have the least interest in our community.

But i'll edit my post, just for you.

 

[Sacman]

18...
Lower middle class...
Male...
Because I like video games and have very little social skills in real life...

 

[tigermilk]

27

Working Class Post-Graduate

Male

It passes the time and counters a sense of alienation and cultural malaise

 

[Super Toast]

-16

-Caucasian/Middle Class

-Male

-Its wonderful community, forums and gaming news.

 

[Dublin Solo]

- Age: 31
- Gender: Female
- Middle-class
- I initially came to the Escapist when a colleague sent me a link to a review by Yahtzee. Afterward, I browsed the articles, created an account, and pretty much started checking the content every day.

 

[CSidgwick]

lol sorry XD but i see no demands in his post

I'm going to assume you're refering to my post, and true, he is making a request rather than a demand. I was just having a laugh because most people at least comment in other threads and hang around a bit before using us to gather statistics, unlike Mr OP who seems to have only made his account so he can gather information and probably doesn't have the least interest in our community.

But i'll edit my post, just for you.

Yes its true i did make the account to gather this information but after looking through the site ive found a lot of interesting things and yes i intend to stick around I didnt mean to offend anybody by being so forward.