Gamer Archetype


genre: an interesting and harder to define archetype.

recreational: these gamers will dabble in some games of most genres and are usually grouped with casual gamers.
strategist: gamers who prefer strategy games, which usually involve any game genre with acronyms.

trolls: these gamers may or may not be good, but usually hang around fps’s to talk sh-t about how they are better than you, and have s-x with your mom while they t-bag you. similar to forum trolls you only win if you ignore them

sport: obviously the gamers who play mostly to only sport games

-racing: a sub type of sports

-fighting: another major sub type of sports

fantasy: gamers in everything fantasy. usually only pertains to rpgs and adventure games.

loyal: gamers that remain loyal to specific developers and shun others. usually a prefix to another genre.

shooters:

-fps: first person shooters, people who almost exclusively play fps’s

-tps: third person shooters, like fps people who almost exclusively play tps’s

puzzle: a rare type of gamer who enjoys mostly puzzle games.

action/adventure: people who like mostly action adventure

-hack n’ slash: another rare type which is a joint between action and fighting
can you find your gamer archetype yet?
there are two ways to cl-ssify gamers, by time and genre.

time: the basic and easy to define archetype.

casual: these gamers often log less than 20 hours of play time a week

core: the bulk of gamers, the play usually between 20-30 hours a week

hardcore: these gamers manage to log 30-40+ hours a week. i fit into this genre.

-subcore: gamers that would be hardcore, but are restricted on time, because of parental/girlfriend/boyfriend interference.

lead: these are the gamers you see at the top of the leaderboards, and statistically, for most games, these people work less than 20 hours a week. for most games this is the line you don’t want to cross.
which gamer archetype describes you?

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