(Disclaimer: I’ve seen the Themepark vs Sandbox thread, and since this post is not on topic with what is currently being discussed, I didn’t want to derail their conversation. Please let me know if I need to move this or repost elsewhere.)

Hello all,

I’m working on an infographic for a project I’m doing and I’m looking for a little insight on the type of players that play sandbox MMOs and themepark MMOs. Obviously stereotypes are out there, but I’m really just looking for why someone plays one over the other. Any information would be helpful: personality traits, opinions, preferences, ect. Please just let me know why you play one over the other!

Thanks! 

I'm a "I enjoy this game and have never bothered to give half a crap about the asinine war between 'themepark' and 'sandbox' so I'm going to go back to enjoying my game now."

Not sure what type that is...

I play both styles of games. Actually, I also play all kinds of games - strategy and roguelikes being my other 2 favorite genres. I like turn based stuff for some reason. But I like to jump into an FPS every once in a while too.

Anyway, I feel like the, "I only like sandboxes!" vocal minority complains way, way too much. It's like every themepark big name release is an affront to their sensibilities and the world must be corrected in some way to make up for the disparity between what they think is fun and what apparently, judging by what gets made and bought the most, most other people think is fun.

"You must be an idiot if you have fun playing THAT game." That kind of mentality is annoying at best and disturbing at worst. And it's really common around here.

Originally posted by RefMinor
I live in my Mother's basement, I am 42 single and somewhat overweight, I like Themeparks.

Hot pockets: Yay or nay?

Originally posted by Psychow

Originally posted by RefMinor
I live in my Mother's basement, I am 42 single and somewhat overweight, I like Themeparks.

 

Hot pockets: Yay or nay?

Only if flambé'd in full fat Mountain Dew and topped with crushed Doritos and melted Dairylea triangles.

Hmm. So would you say that the situation between sandbox and themepark gamers is similar to that of the one between Battlefield and Call of Duty gamers, respectively? Where the numbers would indicate that more people consume and enjoy Call of Duty, but the Battlefield community is very vocal about the superiority of their game?

That’s definitely very interesting.

Haha @RefMinor thank you for that, pretty much exactly what I’m looking for. 

http://memegenerator.net/instance/34730542

(forum noob link) 

Originally posted by waterbuffalo13

Hmm. So would you say that the situation between sandbox and themepark gamers is similar to that of the one between Battlefield and Call of Duty gamers, respectively? Where the numbers would indicate that more people consume and enjoy Call of Duty, but the Battlefield community is very vocal about the superiority of their game?

Actually that's just like arguing about  WoW and GW2, ARMA II is the clearly superior game.

Themeparks - Achiever, Killer

Sandbox - Socializer, Explorer, Killer

I want a boxpark.

Edit: got a laugh when googling boxpark.

Common theme amongst us all: Killer

Good luck world! 

Originally posted by waterbuffalo13

Common theme amongst us all: Killer

Good luck world! 

Now where are all the first year sociology and psychology majors to tell us how disturbed we are?  The PvP threads are full of them.