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For current MMORPG Players: Participate in the current surveys.

For New Visitors: Check out The Daedalus Gateway for brief thematic primers to the data that has accumulated here over the past few years. Also look at the tag cloud to get a sense of what issues I have written about.

For Returning Visitors: The easiest way to scan through or find past articles of interest is through the "by Issue" or "by Category" listing pages. This link is also always available on the right-hand navigation bar.

For Students and Researchers: If you're looking for papers or articles in print you can cite, check out this index of peer-reviewed papers. If you would like some of this survey data to play with for a stats course, see this shared data set.

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Are short people more likely to make tall avatars? Who prefers to be an Elf and who prefers to be an old dwarf? In this article, we'll take a look at the intersection of physical bodies and virtual bodies.

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In this article, we'll take a look at the many different ways in which people use MMOs as a coping mechanism and consider how MMOs provide an outlet for many psychological stressors. We'll also explore both positive and negative consequences of doing so, and in particular discuss the gray area between therapy and dependency.

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What happens when people who know each other face-to-face reverse roles when they play an MMO together? Do these reversals change their face-to-face relationship in any way? In this article, we'll consider perspectives from friends, romantic partners, parent-children pairs, and boss-employee pairs.

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What's the most common motivation for playing MMOs? In this data set, we'll explore overall trends as well as age and gender differences.

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Are MMO players really as anti-social as the media portrays them? In this article, we'll take a look at the number of players who use MMOs as a way of maintaining relationships with their friends and family who don't live nearby.

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In this set of player-submitted screenshots, we have a guild farewell, a romantic embrace, an ambush, and a raid preparation. If you have an interesting screenshot, please submit it via the last page of this article.

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Your feedback, questions or comments on any of the current articles or on the Daedalus Project in general are welcome. Also welcome are ideas for issues to explore in future surveys.

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