Patrick “iTZKooPA” Mulhern interviews Vice President and Studio Manager of The Amazing Society Jason Robar about the upcoming game at E3 2010.

Patrick “iTZKooPA” Mulhern interviews Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures producer Todd Carson about the upcoming free to play game at E3 2010.

Massively multiplayer games have a lot of opportunity for self-expression. You can customize your character’s race, their role in group play, and what you do with them day-to-day. There is massive potential for sociology and social psychology if you can somehow aggregate this kind of data. Second Life has been the poster-child for academic studies, but it really just doesn’t have the user base of World of Warcraft. Blizzard doesn’t release any of these type of statistics, but there are some services and people who are attempting to gather and analyze this type of data.

Warcraft Realms is one of the premier sites for contributing and retrieving population data and statistics. Players install an addon, then upload their data to the site to be integrated into the database. It’s unclear how accurate the data is, but it seems to be in-line with my experiences, such as the Alliance-Horde ratio on my server, class ratios, etc.

Gay-nerds.com recently posted a quick analysis of global statistics versus the statistics of Taint, the largest guild of The Spreading Taint family of guilds. Taint is a social LGBT-friendly (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) guild with open invitations; all LGBT-friendly people are welcome to join. Taint alone has 5,000 characters, and 2,493 were recorded on Warcraft Realms at the time of their study. This is a very large data set, making it excellent for analysis; Taint is largely accepted as the second largest World of Warcraft guild. Additionally, most of the members of Taint are LGBT, a significant difference from the overall player population. What differences did they find? Click-through for more.
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iTZKooPA finds his way to the Perfect World Entertainment booth at E3, where he chats up a product manager about the recently released F2P MMO, Battle of the Immortals.

Lore Hound regulars will recognize this game as one that KooPA and Amatera have previously discussed in the MMOCast. What solutions can the game offer for some of the issues they’ve already met? Check the full video for a discussion on upcoming plans for both PvP and PvE action, accompanied by some game footage mixed in.

Plus, we have a couple more videos coming up on more footage from upcoming Perfect World games, and a whole lot more from E3 — so keep checking back!