So fam it's your boy again, and you know what time it is for night video time and today
I'm joined by my friends Drake and ninja
That's seriously who these guys are so put in their name of the title of this video is totally not clickbaitttttttt now a lot
alot you been blowing up my feeds lately saying that I've faked my videos that I have someone else play for me and that I
and I Just kind of sit here and react well that is totally not true
I mean why would I lie except to make myself look better and rake in those sweet sweet youtube dollars
So today even though your accusations totally don't bother me
(even if they do actually bother me) MatPat 2018
I'm gonna show you my hands while I'm playing haters gonna hate boom. Let's do this so here
We are play important it with my boys Drake. I hear you're a fan of this game. Ah
Boy look at that sick kill wasn't that a sick kill. I totally just got
Yo, ninja, aren't you jealous of that kill?
I hear you're pretty good at this game, but you know I'm better right and you can totally tell
It's me playing cuz you can see my hands right now live in that upper right hand corner
Yeah
fortnite
cool
Kinda bored of this game anyone want to strip. No all right. Let's go
Hello Internet welcome to game theory where it is officially the end of battle royale weak weak weak
Weak weak weak weak
so far we've scientifically proven that the Tilted tower meteor should have completely reinvented the fortnight map and we've
Disproven all that scare mongering around battle royale games causing kids to become more violent, but today
I wanted to ask an even more important question can I prove that there are positive effects to playing these sorts of games?
Parents news outlets often claim that video games are causing violent loners and social outcasts
But uh is that really true
I mean it games like fortnight and pub G are online
With other people most players like to play with other friends form teams to can playing battle royale style games help make gamers more comfortable
In social situations, are they making you new friends and most importantly of all can I prove it with science
And you know it'll make people more likely to believe what I'm saying again
I had the hypothesis that they are my
Hypothesis here was that games like pub G & fortnight were actually helping gamers create new friend groups and making online gamers better
socialized relative to others with similar
Personality traits with that being said let's see what the data showed as a quick reminder to help figure this out
I asked you all to complete a survey three hundred and thirty thousand of you responded from countries all over the world the US
Canada Spain Brazil you name it it was in there even some countries
I'd never heard of like your mom and your mom gay, which I can only assume is like the relationship between, Virginia and West
Virginia
Your mom your mom gay the Democratic Republic of your mom's super game other representing countries included tighty-whitey timid
But rages a lot and what is nationality my name is Michael. It's odd. You never see that nation represented at the Olympics
I really would love to see their flag then whether you were from America murica murica
America the dank the good ol US of A or any of the other hundred and twenty different ways of writing the exact same
Country I asked you all to tell me which battle royale games you were playing a bit about your gaming habits and then some information
About your personality via the myers-briggs test which breaks down your core personality into one of sixteen different
categories the first key finding was that regardless of whether I was talking about Fortnight errs pub cheers both errs or neither earns the
distribution of personality type was largely the same nearly 25% of all responses fell into the
INFP category known as mediators to let you know how unusual that is only
4% of the population is that type and yet here it wasn't data
25% of you guys responding nearly twice the size of the next closest category was the mediator type
Crazy now mediator personalities are more often than not reserved
And shy that's where that introverted eye comes in at the beginning as a result mediators often feel misunderstood
they have a tendency to withdraw into a form of hermit mode figuratively and
sometimes literally hiding away from the outside world seeking escape via their passions and
Passionate they are for despite that quiet exterior to have a fiery inner emotionality which leads many to express themselves through art
Writing poetry social media and of course video games in a tight race for second place where the pattern loving logicians
INTP the 3% of the population who immersed themselves in debating ideas and theories and the independent charismatic campaigners
ENFP the 7% of the overall population who craved freedom and creativity who still see life as a puzzle the work through it via
Emotion rather than logical reasoning so between those three types alone you had nearly
165 thousand of our total responses about
50% and yet if you were to add those three types up as they appear in the outside world you would only account for
14% of the worldwide population
It's crazy how the personality distribution of gamers can be so vastly different from the overall world
Population right oh and if you're wondering who's doing all that shouting over voice chat it seems to be coming from a few bad eggs
in the EST p-type the entrepreneurs
Described as the eye of the storm the type to leap before they look the ones who lead a life of risk and the ones
Who are bluntly honest according to the?
Personality assessments they tend to break the rules and live by their own moral compass and based on our data
They're also the ones who are least likely to turn off voice chat by a huge margin an enormous
66% choosing to keep it on compare that to the average for introverts at 44% and average across all
Reverted personality types at 58% now one thing that those personality stats showed was that while yes
Battle royale games tend to attract more extroverts there seems to still be a majority of quiet
introverts playing these sorts of games our data gave it a
60/40 split so were these players socially stronger than introverted players who specialized in other
Genres of game if battle royale games were truly helping their players and not just the battle arena
But also the social arena you would expect to see the numbers for both online and offline
friendships increase with more exposure to battle royale style gaming both for introverts and for
Extroverts so back to the pivot tables. I went to look at three groups
the battle royale errs who played both games the pub nighters who played one or the other and the
idubbbz the ones who would say I don't usually
Battle royale not to be confused with mega fans of content top this time
I moved away from the aggression and risk taking questions from last episode and instead looked at a different series of responses
Ones where I asked about both online and offline friendships, how many close friends
Do you feel like you have do you consider people you meet online to be friends?
Do you follow up with people you meet in a game over things like discord or Skype and across every?
single question the more battle royale you played the more likely you were to report higher levels of positive social activity and
satisfaction for example when asked whether they had a lot of friends in the meet space only 18% of I double
Ah'd of really close friends that jumped up a full 10 points to
28% for pub nighters and the hardcore battle royale errs were at a whopping
35 percent the same held true with online friends when asked whether they follow up with people they've met for a game only
33% of I'd ever said yes that jumped up to 44 percent for pub nighters and a whopping
53% for battle royale errs, it's a huge spread of a hugely positive influence, but again
there's a variable here that we have to account for all this could just be the
extraversion talking after all making new friends is gonna be a lot easier for people with an
extroverted personality trait and in pub G and fortnight steam modes
Communication is absolutely essential so that you can trap enemies in that perfect
Insert or to make sure that you're not building walls in the middle of someone else's
staircase so didn't sure I was comparing like with like I said read it out the
Extroverted gamer data set from the introverted ones so I could eliminate outgoingness as a potential variable here
And it was here that the positive benefits of Battle Royale games became
Perfectly clear when introverts responded to would you say you have a lot of friends IRL only
11% of I'd uh bird that they felt like to have a lot of friends that jumped up to
17% in pub nighters and an astounding
22% with the hardest core battle royale er for extroverts the battle royale friendship boost also occurred and was even more
Pronounced jumping from 40% saying they have a lot of close friends on the low end to a whopping
55% an enormous
15% increase in the battle royale or category the same hell true with online
Relationships as well when asked when they followed up with friends from games in places like discord introverts went from 32%
Yes for the high covers to 52% yes with the Battle Royale
Er the data is screaming that there's a positive relationship here, but again
That's only numbers anyone can have a larger friend list especially those who play a game that
Encourages you to build that friend list except
Here's the thing perhaps the most positive binding of all of these episodes these
relationships are real, and they're
Long-lasting for both introverts and extroverts when given the opportunity to agree with the statement I consider people I meet online
to be friends to about
28% of idubbbz did a number that jumped to 44% for battle royale errs
Which ultimately means that these games are encouraging new sets of friendships friendships that feel and behave?
realistically even if they're only taking place in a virtual world and
Psychologically, it makes sense when activities perform together help build trust and understanding a friendship conform a number of studies done over the past
Decade have asked the question can games with their physical separation and their visual
Anonymity create the same level of bond a number of studies have concluded yes
Yes, they can one fantastic study named social interactions and massive multiplayer online role-playing games even found
27% of the male players and
47% of the female players in their study to find themselves attracted to other players that they had never met in real life
Move aside tinder there's a new best dating app and it comes with
Sand I don't mean that as a sexual innuendo
And according to another study titled the effects of playing
cooperative and competitive video games on teamwork and team performance while playing games only solo competitively might not do much playing games with any
Cooperative gameplay even competitive team based gameplay can help promote teamwork and positive social skills according to new boy
the effects of pro-social video games on pro-social behaviors international evidence from correlational longitudinal and experimental studies
Pro-social behaviors acquired from cooperative gameplay can last a long time after the gaming stop making at least months long
improvements to social behavior
It's just a too bad that it doesn't make
Improvements to making shorter research paper titles huh am I right up top up top slap the screen player smack in the screen rocket ride
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Appreciate it. I feel I feel accomplished now. That's it the numbers are clear Battle Royale gaming
Not only doesn't cause increased levels of aggression
It's also helping gamers grow socially and find new friend breeds, but those of you
Who are shy the web is a?
Perfect place to interact according to a study of German Internet users called friendship and online gaming among emotionally sensitive gamers
Shyness is usually caused by an excess of emotional sensitivity
Often abbreviated yes those with excessive amounts of emotional sensitivity you can often feel judged and stressed during in-person
social interactions some of the separation that gaming provides like physical anonymity can help people with high es
Communicate more clearly and comfortably helping them develop
attachments
Which are more difficult?
To make for them in person this can do wonders to help someone who's normally unable to start building social skills at all to build
A certain level of comfort before meeting in person and who knows maybe we'll all be the first generation to evenly distribute the social skills
Among the masses we'll call it socialism
Wait no. That's not right when I first asked you guys to participate episode
I mentioned that it was my goal to prove the good that games
Do and I think between these two episodes we were able to move toward that goal just a little bit more as we saw in
the data today gamers represent some of the smallest
Percentage of personality types out there in the world and as a result of our unique combination of traits
It's hard for non. Gamers to understand our worldviews
How we interact with things around us as with anything that people don't understand their knee jerk
Reaction is to vilify and condemn it try to make it into something scary because it's different
but just because it's different doesn't mean it's wrong the
Situation is far from the bleak picture that the outside world would paint and by spreading awareness of who we are and more importantly
The way our minds work
We'll be one step closer to bridging the gap, but hey, that's just a theory a game
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