Dragon Age Demographics

LOVED this. And 3000+ players is a great sample size. Really interesting findings. Not surprised by much. Way more LGBTQ+ people than I thought (25%). We are everywhere it seems.

I also knew that most people would support mages but WOW is that choice in particular very skewed. And I’m still spilling a single tear for how few people appreciate the awesomeness of the dwarves!

You thought it would be higher or lower? I cant decide if that’s low or high. It’s high considering how many options are in the remaining 30% (Josephine, Sera, Blackwall, Bull, and no romance). But it’s low considering that Solas is clearly the most plot relevant and Cullen has a rabid cult....er, I mean fan base.

City elves need more love. So does Zevran. But I was quite pleased Fenris was so beloved.

It was also VERY heavily skewed to liberal political views and there are more non-religious people on that end of the spectrum. That being said, it’s still a very high %.

I did actually expect those two to comprise the 'majority' of female PC romances, just not by that much.  I was thinking it would be hovering at just over the 50% mark combined.  Especially with the demographic of how many female players were lesbian in the results.  Not that you have to follow your own sexuality in game romances of course, but I guess I figured that it would show through more than it did.

That might actually tie in to the note the writer made about men always finding versions of themselves in games.  I made a joke about it my first post, but it is actually true.

I am a straight white atheist male in real life.  While I'm fine being that in games as well, if I don't have to be, then cool.  Maybe I will be and maybe I won't be.  It's part of why I replay DA games so often.

The only thing that surprised me was that the vast majority were pro-mage. Like I expected around 55/45 or something but nah, way off.
Also the number of women that have Blackwall as canon romance was pitiful. Should've made him bisexual or gay 

They acknowledge that though, right from the start.

"In this section we will investigate the general demographics of the Reddit dragon age players."

I don't think there's any question that the data from this survey, and BW's data on all players, are going to be different. Some by a little, some by a lot.

The sample population is definitely a subset of a subset, for sure.  And due to that self selection bias there is going to be some funky results that wouldn’t be applicable to the DA player base at large.  But some interesting stats emerged, nonetheless.

I'm somewhat surprised that Morrigan is more popular as a canon romance for straight male PCs than Leliana. Thought most would ultimately write off Morrigan as "too bitchy/evil". But I personally wouldn't pair her with a Cousland (not that I ever played a male one past Ostagar), so what do I know.

I was absolutely unsurprised.

Same here. I expected more monotheism motivated/influenced Chantry apologism to be honest. It seems to be quite common in the fandom. At least those parts lacking what some would call "liberal bias".

Well, if 63-ish % identify as agnostic/atheist, why should they be in favour of a bunch of entitled thuggist zealots like the TO?

Well, that last one I prefer over what would be "cool contrarian" in this case, like "Bow to Maker"or "Fuck the whiny robes". "Blaspehmer!!!!!!11" when addressing other community members who don't buy Chantry rhetoric also seemed popular at times.

Generally speaking, me too. But I guess it is a totally different wall.