i kinda thought that women would spend more was a given, even if it is on the internet. | |
Do we still have to restate fact with useless research? Oh... Yea... It's re-search... Maybe they just wanted to make sure that it's still the case up until now. Oh well, I guess it is! | |
-sigh- I'm tired of people confusing social programming for biology. To recap: women are programmed one way, and men are programmed another, from birth. it has | |
Compared to my friends on Xbox Live...I do spend a little more extra cash to pimp out my Avatar than they do. | |
that is a revolation! but i bet about 2 percent of that is housewives playing farmville | |
That does not surprise me at all...alot of the woman in my office play it, and, I wouldnt be surprised if a couple were hardcore like this | |
so females spend more money, shocker. | |
This just in!!! Science has discovered that, on occasion, food tastes good!!! And that 9/10 people enjoy sex!!! Thank god for science, telling us what we'd never otherwise figure out for ourselves!!! | |
Women spend more than men?! WHAT?! | |
Amazing and new news! | |
I wonder if the the outcome of people who buy in-game cash for games that don't sell it directly (I mean from Gil/Gold sellers.) would still put female players higher number,bigger spenders, niether or both. | |
Next scientific study, is it a good idea to build cities near unstable volcanoes? Test subject: Naples! | |
Saw a play about this, it's simple as simple can be. It's a remnant of the hunter/gatherer instincts of old. Men were hunters, women were gatherers. Not because men would be 'oppressing' women or such crud (in fact in those days the bloodline actually went through the mothers and not the fathers mainly, until men finally figured out that having sex contributed to having babies), but because both of them found biologocial affinities for these tasks - affinities that exist to this day. Problem is that a consumerist society will always push things to the point of absurdity. Wether it's men hunting for all-important things such as achievement points on the internet, to make themselves feel worth something, or wether it's women clicking on cows, to make themselves feel like good handlers and managers. Both is virtual and both falls short of real skills alas. | |
they needed a survey for this? | |
The world! It's imploding with this amazing revelation that women spend more than men. CALL THE GLOBETROTTERS!
We must stop the world from imploding! | |
A "survey" wasn't necessary to determine this. A day of observation and a bit of common sense would have produced the same consensus. | |
Women spend more money than men on useless shit? O rly? | |
Wow this is breaking news(/sarcasm) They seriously had to make a servey to figure this out? | |
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Women Beat Men in Virtual Shopping Habits
The shopping habits of women compared to men in virtual worlds may reflect those stereotypically seen in the real world.
I'm not being sexist here: Ask 100 women if they like to shop or not and I bet you'd get a lot of positive responses. At the least, I don't think it's crazy to say that women like to generally shop more than men. According to a new survey, the same might be true in the worlds of virtual online games.
VGMarket surveyed 2221 people and found that "North American women 25 and older are spending 'disproportionately' higher amounts of cash on virtual items and currency." The survey was conducted with users of virtual currency services such as Facebook's Spare Change.
Sadly, only 22% of the survey's respondents were female, but it still concluded that women spend "$15 more per year on first-party purchases in social games than men, and twice as much on in-game money." Surveys are always hard to judge, but this one seems to indicate that female gamers have taken a liking to certain virtual worlds such as FarmVille, and that for some reason may be more likely to spend money within them. Do women just like clicking on cows more than men?
Source: GI.biz
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