Pete_LeGrant January 7, 2009 Entertainment, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 1,187 views Comments Print This Post  Email This Post

SUMMARY: Our data were extremely difficult to acquire. Interview subjects were generally hostile and very defensive. At any rate, you can see what results we managed to collect in the pie graph just below.

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• Surprising to us was the explanation: “My babysitter equipped Juggernaut for me.” These subjects claimed that (1) they were not allowed to play the game when their parents were home (2) they cannot read (and thus did not understand the perks that were equipped) (3) the babysitter was stoned and (4) the babysitter had equipped Juggernaut for himself/herself in the previous round of Team Deathmatch. These subjects occasionally tacked on the explanation, “F@#$ you!”

• The vast majority of subjects–after the appropriate questions and tongue lashings were applied by our researchers–were amazingly candid in responding: “I suck at this game.” Many of these subjects followed up this explanation with one of the other common explanations. For simplicity, we considered only the first explanation given.

The study leads us towards a new investigation into the possible connection between sadism and video games. The responses, “F@#$ you!” and “I just like to drive you batshit,” show a tendency in some users (19%) to inflict pain on other players for the Juggernaut’s own (sexual, perhaps) pleasure. However, this hypothesis has not yet been tested, and our researchers have expressed a strong reluctance to confirm/disconfirm the sexual responses of Juggernauts in COD:WAW.

We should add that several of our researchers quit halfway though the experiment, claiming that they could not speak to users of the Juggernaut perk any longer. This author himself will require many years of therapy as a result of the data collection.