Profile, Gaming Usage and Purposes of Gaming of Internet Café Users in Manila: An Exploratory Study

Abstract

This descriptive-exploratory study attempted to give the readers a portrait of cyber cafA© gamers in Manila. It determined the profile of gamers, their gaming usage, and their purposes of cyber cafA© gaming. Descriptive statistics revealed that most of the respondents were Manila settlers, students, pursuing or had obtained college degrees, male, young, Roman Catholic, single, belonged to middle-income class, and played games in cyber cafA©s in the afternoon once to twice a week. One-way chi-square showed that frequency of gaming was not equally distributed in a week and gamers showed tendency to play games in a cyber in a particular time of the day. Real-time strategy games were the most frequently played games in cyber cafA©s. To recreate, to relieve boredom, and to have fun were the top three reasons in playing games in cyber cafA©s. Conclusions and directions for future research were also presented.