If so then I’d say it’s accurate.

I never trust surveys. I always felt they’re the worst way to gather information, with the best ways people don’t even know they’re being studied. Then you only have the bias of the observers to contend with.

The error of surveys is far more than people want us to believe. Not just in doing a poor job of picking respondents, but questions can be so leading you don’t even realize it when you write the question, esp you don’t see how it leads to the answer you want. So many studies of polling has shown so many errors. of course, those studies have biases too! oh no! :O

For instance I was reading about exit polls, and they showed that when young women were used to ask who you voted for, the results were overwhelmingly Democrat. Since everyone wants to impress the young cute girl how caring and good we are :)

Why? For one reason, I strongly suspect that there are just a lot more people soloing than grouping. And even if you’re out to group constantly, there’s still the wait time to get organized into a group and get anywhere to do anything.

Hence why most MMORPGs these days have busywork tasks and other such ’solo content’ to keep people entertained while they’re alone.

Still, I’d question the methodology of such research, even if it agrees with my bias.

Exactly how did they obtain these results? A survey? Are we talking about just asking people how long they spend in a group or solo? (People grossly misjudge how long an hour is, for one thing.)

And how representative is this group of six thousand? A random selection across scores of MMO titles, or whole flocks of players who know each other and who may have said, “Hey, this questionnaire at this website is the current cool thing to fill up? :)”