More news from UK National Gamers Survey 2009 which I covered a while back. Lots of lovely graphs and charts can found here with one set of statistics standing out from the crowd: the Brits are least likely to buy a physical ‘disc’ version of a game and most likely to download a digital copy, but conversely only 27% of us will purchase extra DLC compared to 55% of the our American chums, ranking us bottom of the DLC big spender league.
Those of you who like your digital goodies will be pleased to know the 2009 Virtual Goods Summit took place last weekend in the completely real city of San Francisco. According to the panel discussion the most popular forms of digital goods are usually the type used to kick the crap out your mates – guns, tanks, that sort of thing. However it is not all Uzis and virtual birthday cakes, a darker side to these jolly DLC gifts was revealed,
‘The panel were asked about their top buyers — a question that seemed to make the panellists uncomfortable. While nobody wanted to state it directly, there seemed to be a consensus that unhealthy or socially unacceptable motivations, like hoarding or seduction through gifting, are behind the behaviour of some of these users.’
Seduction through digital gifting, TSA’ers beware! If a strange man offers to buy you some LittleBigPlanet DLC he probably wants to take you offline and play with your sackboy.
