This subculture is made up of a community of gamers who play online with friends they may know in real life as well as new ones made on the game. World of warcraft is one of the best known role play games on which the player develops a character who then defeat other gamers to work through levels.
A highly addictive habit online gaming is developing and changing on a daily basis, with new games and graphics keep the players hooked spending excessive amounts of time on them. The gamers lives begin to revolve around getting onto new levels. However, one of the most interesting characterists in this subculture is that there lifestyles away from the computer differ quite alot, meeting online means they come from differant backgrounds then these differances create interesting discussions within the group.
As most 'socialising' within the group happens online there isn't a set fashion or trend to the clothing worn by the members, however websites have developed ranges of t-shirts and basic clothing which members can buy and indentify with. Listening to mostly heavy metal and classic rock music the soundtracks from the games also become part of the players musical taste. One of the users comment on this video outlines his passion for the music, ' OH HOLY GLORIOUS MOTHER MARY IN A PIZZA BOX!! AND I
THOUGH THAT NUMBER 5 WAS GOOD! THIS IS AWESOME SO FREAKING GREAT! *man tear*' mat2th 3 days ago
With new role play games being realised during 2011 this group will only grow and branch off depending on there specialism and console. This sub-culture is all about keeping up-to-date and getting with the next new phenomina, sales for the top games being released soon including Crysis 2 and Mass Effect 3 are in the millions so the watching how this culture changes over time should be interesting
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