Org - Demographics

[kataphraktoi]

As a marketing student, demographics is iimportant. So just out of curiousity, and perhaps, for others, how about a demographic view of the org. No polls or anything, just a few simple questions to answer:

Copy Questions and write own answers.

The KATAPHRAKTOI guarantee:
I am not collecting information on behalf of the American government for profiling org-ers and their subversive views
Trust me, I'm Asian hahahaha

Age:

Gender:

Occupation:

Nationality:

Country of Origin:

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage):

How did you find out about the Total War Series?:

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society:

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"):

Highest education attained:

[kataphraktoi]

Age: 23

Gender: Male

Occupation: Student

Nationality: Malaysian

Country of Origin: Malaysia

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 10%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: A Chinese Pastor

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Byzantium

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Christianity

Highest education attained: Bachelor's Degree in Pol.Sci/His. and Mkting/Mgnt

[AntiochusIII]

Ooooooh...are we gonna like, show up as Leo's sidekicks or somethin'?

Age: 16

Gender: Male

Occupation: Student

Nationality: Currently filed for citizen status at the United States (legal immigrant)

Country of Origin: Thailand, just above ya. Me left the blood-scorched realm two years ago.

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 20-30%...sometimes more

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: My dad bought Shogun somehow, for some reason. A rabid fan ever since.

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: I cannot be so biased, so everyone and none.

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): legally Buddhist, but consider me a confused none. Actually, I'm a prophet.

Highest education attained: Currently enrolling on 11th grade High School in the U.S. The "attained" grade is considered 10th grade for now.

[solypsist]

Age: 34

Gender: Man

Occupation: fashion photographer. commercial photographer

Nationality: USA

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 0-5%, i have brief moments of gaming but dislike learning new games (ie. losing while figuring out the rules). usually play when between gigs at home during late nights.

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: went to store to get a game for a weeklong bedsit, saw STW.

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: 1. French - they know what's important to living a good life 2. Japan (but I don't like their intense work ethic and stratified society

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): the almighty dollar

Highest education attained: Masters

[John86]

Age:15

Gender:Male

Occupation:Student

Nationality:American

Country of Origin:America

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage):5%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?:PC Gamer magazine

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society:America of course!

Religion (if practicing, if not, type "none"): Catholic

Highest education attained:Currently in High School.

[InsaneApache]

Age: 45

Gender: m

Occupation: Retailer

Nationality: British

Country of Origin: England (UK)

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage:a lot

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: got the demo disc for shoggy

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Nippon

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): C o E (ie none )

Highest education attained: College

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Age: 19

Gender: Male

Occupation: Student

Nationality: USA

Country of Origin: USA

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 0

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Flyer in the package of another game

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: none

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): none

Highest education attained: some college

[Just A Girl]

Age: 25

Gender: M

Occupation: pc technician/repair

Nationality: Welsh

Country of Origin: Wales

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage):
30%
How did you find out about the Total War Series?:
Bitania Video game club Sent me the Editors choice of the month £40
Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Romans "they gave us everything (although they stole it from els where)"

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Agnostic

Highest education attained: college, also worked in univesety for a while. (but not educated there)

[Don Corleone]

Age: 35

Gender: Male

Occupation: Electrical Engineer

Nationality: United States

Country of Origin: United States

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 3-5%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Downloaded the demo from Gamespy.

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: In the game? The Italians. In history? Middle Kingdom Egypt.

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Christian

Highest education attained: BSEE (technical) MBA (business degree)

[drone]

Age: 35
Gender: Male
Occupation: Software Engineer
Nationality: United States
Country of Origin: United States
Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): not enough
How did you find out about the Total War Series?: A friend had Medieval
Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: The Danes
Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): lapsed Presbyterian
Highest education attained: BS CS

Are we going to get graphs as a result of this survey? Ooooohhhhh, pretty pictures

[Lazul]

Age: 22

Gender: Male

Occupation: Student

Nationality: Swedish

Country of Origin: Sweden

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): Impossible to say

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: My chance, surfing the net

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Hard to say, Sweden is very intresting but so is ancient Egypt

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Agnostic

Highest education attained: Currently studying at a university.

[Kagemusha]

Kagemusha

Age: 27

Gender: Male

Occupation: Entrepreneur IT business

Nationality: Finnish

Country of Origin: Finland

Amount of time spent playing PC games:20% (modding included)

How did you find about Total War series?: Read a prewiev of STW in computer magazine

Favourite Civilization: Japan/Rome

Religion:Evangelic Lutheral

Highest education attained: Graduated from Finnish Highschool.(Dont know the term in English).

[Ianofsmeg16]

Age: 16

Gender: M

Occupation: Secondary school Student/Drummer

Nationality: Manx

Country of Origin: England

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 25%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Curiosity

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Romano-British (especially the Manx)

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Christian

Highest education attained: at the moment? Mock GCSE

[Ser Clegane]

Age: 35

Gender: male

Occupation: Research Analyst

Nationality: German

Country of Origin: Germany

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 5%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: games magazine (article about S:TW

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Japanese (in a sense of "most interested in")

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): depends on what counts as "practising"

Highest education attained: Master in Chemistry

[Kralizec]

Age: 20

Gender: male

Occupation: law student

Nationality: Dutch

Country of Origin: the Netherlands

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): hard to say...to much in any case

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: picked up MTW for a bargain price

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Rome

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): none

Highest education attained: atheneum ("high school")

[matteus the inbred]

Age: 26

Gender: M

Occupation: editorial

Nationality: British

Country of Origin: England

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): errrm...10% at most

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: a mate told me

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: medieval Japan/China (in real life!). in MTW Byzantines, Danes, Turks

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): none

Highest education attained: Master's

[Red Peasant]

Age: 41

Gender: Male

Occupation: Postal Worker (Student again in October)

Nationality: British

Country of Origin: England

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): c. 1-3%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: STW through the .org

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Romans and Greeks

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): None (raised Catholic)

Highest education attained: BA, MA (both Ancient History/Archaeology)

[Viking]

Age: 15

Gender: Male

Occupation: Student

Nationality: Norwegian

Country of Origin: Norway

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): way too much

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Regional news paper

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Roman

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Agnostic

Highest education attained: God knows what

[mercian billman]

Age: 19

Gender: Male

Occupation: US Marine

Nationality: American

Country of Origin: Philippines

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 1%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Magazine review

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: I don't really have one, but I do like to study about them and right now I'm reading a book about Ghengis Khan.

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Christmas Easter Catholic

Highest education attained: High School

[Reenk Roink]

Age: Impossible to tell, I do not use your odd timekeeping methods.

Gender: Man

Occupation: Hunter/Gatherer, called up as a warrior sometimes (damn farmers are starting to pop up though)

Nationality: WTF is this?

Country of Origin: You mean you don't share the land?

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): We play all kinds of games in my cave.

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: A clan leader told me, he probably was a Prophet or something....

Favorite Civilization: Are you saying our tribe will split or something?

Religion: Being the great-great-grandson of Adam, I precede even the shamanist/polytheistic religions with my pure monotheism.

Highest education: Uh, I can make a fire...

[Geoffrey S]

Age: 18

Gender: Male.

Occupation: Student.

Nationality: British.

Country of Origin: Born in Holland.

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): A little over 5% during the week, varies tremendously in the weekends.

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: PCGamer previews and reviews of Medieval.

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Early Persian or the Romans.

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): None.

Highest education attained: Currently in 6th year Gymnasium.

[GiantMonkeyMan]

Age: 16

Gender: M

Occupation: Student

Nationality: British

Country of Origin: born in ireland, brought up in england (mum was english dad was irish)

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 5%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: brought shogun tw for a fiver... wil never play any other pc game again

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: the british empire (when the atlas was pink )

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): er.... on and off christian... none at the mo

Highest education attained: doing GCSE's

[Arcanum]

Age: 15

Gender: Male.

Occupation: Student.

Nationality: German.

Country of Origin: Germany.

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage):Varies extremely, average schoolweek about 1%. Who plays games with the computer anyway?

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: That was back in the nineties, I saw a demo CD Rom of Shogun.

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: On the danger of others calling me a nationalist or a nazi, germany. Our history always baffles me.

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): None. By god...

Highest education attained: "Gymnasium", would be high-school if I recall correctly. 9th class.

Had to reply to this one!

[Dîn-Heru]

Age: 20

Gender: Male

Occupation: Unemployed (will be in the army from april)

Nationality: Norwegian

Country of Origin: Norway

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 50%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Saw an article on Shogun in a magazine.

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: medieval+viking society/mongol empire

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): None

Highest education attained: high school (VGS), Introduction to psychology at the University of Bergen (1 year)

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Age: 17

Gender Male

Occupation: Full time student and fantastically popular socialite

Nationality: British

Country of Origin: The UK

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 20%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Bought Shogun when it came out on a whim. Best whim ev4r!

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society:19th Century Britain-I like the outfits

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): None

Highest education attained: Doing A-levels, off to Uni next year to study med.

[littlelostboy]

Age:17. One more to 18!

Gender:Man.

Occupation:Student

Nationality:Chinese Singaporean

Country of Origin:Singapore, Land of the Mer-Lion.

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 10%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?:Newspaper. Yup.

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society:Juli and Franks.

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"):Lasped Christian.

Highest education attained:Currently doing last year of high school.

[Sigurd]

Age: 33

Gender: Male

Occupation: System Consultant

Nationality: Bergenser

Country of Origin: Norway

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 0,5 - 2%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: a poster in a game shop (Shogun TW)

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: ROME

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): weak Agnostic

Highest education attained: MaIT

[Dîn-Heru]

Nationality: Bergenser

LOL

[jayrock]

Age:34

Gender:male

Occupation:warehouse manager

Nationality:yank

Country of Origin:usa

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage):roughly 3%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?:shelf shopping

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society:depends on mood

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"):n/a

Highest education attained
some college, although returning this spring

[Sartaq]

Age: 21

Gender: male

Occupation: active duty US Coast Guard (soon)

Nationality: american

Country of Origin: Texas

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): >5%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: STW looked interesting

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: changes often

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): my own beliefs/generally stay away from organized religions

Highest education attained: High school