LogFAQs > #953951428

Found a 2019 survey of the Mass Effect subreddit. 4410 responses.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdNHQxT7COKRuYIaoHBXt0s3DOdq2RgPCLlJg2RCN5pf3kcKA/viewanalytics

Here's some interesting takeaways from that demographic:

1. Age demographic was 47.4% 18-24 years old, 37.4% 25-35 years old
2. 75.8% cis male, 18.2% cis female
3. 48.7% have played a single ME game 5+ times, 44.2% have played a single ME game 2-5 times
4. 78.3% have played the full trilogy at LEAST twice
5. Favorite games are: 52.2% Mass Effect 2, 31.8% Mass Effect 3, 13.2% Mass Effect 1
6. Opinions on the ending are extremely divided and fractured
7. 40.8% have written or read Mass Effect fanfiction
8. 56% of players prefer Male Shepard over 38.3% of players who prefer Female Shepard (5.7% no preference)
9. Soldier is simultaneously the 2nd-most played and #1 least-liked Class
10. Engineer is played by almost no one and is ranked as the #2 least-liked Class
11. Vanguard is the highest-played and most-liked Class
12. 65.3% of players pick primarily Paragon options, while 28.2% pick a mixture of both. Only 6.6% choose primarily Renegade.
13. Nearly half of them have played on Insanity difficulty
14. 55% of people pick Ashley on Virmire, slightly over 45% picking Kaidan
15. 58.3% of player picked the Destroy ending, 25.8% picked Synthesis
16. Garrus was by far the #1 most popular squadmate with 41.8% of the vote, followed by Tali with 10.4% and Wrex with 7.9%
17. Liara is the most popular romance option for both Male and Female Shepard, although Tali and Garrus come close to those respective options

My biggest takeaway is that the Renegade Femshep vocal minority has done an excellent job at convincing people that's the 'real' Shepard!

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