Latest EverQuest II data study covers roleplayers

'Leave it to Raph to break it down in a way to come to his own warped conclusions.

My personal experience has shown that RPers do infact like to play on RP servers. You can easily bend "rpers don't need to play on RP servers" but when you look at the RP server in EQ2 you will see it's... large. While that doesn't indicate that RPers are there it does mean that since RPers tend to go where people are, too... you know RP, that's probably a good place for them to go specially since it's the "RP" server."

Or, conversely, because the RP server is so crowded, they seek other servers where they will be less likely to be harassed. Again, personal experience, RP-labeled servers have a higher proportion of people who like to grief RP events. Of course, our experiences are BOTH anecdotal evidence, and in no way refers to the numbers given by SOE.

"Of course RPers are in a minority, was there any doubt?"

Not "in a minority." They tend to be in "minority groups." Minority groups include women, Hispanics, Jews, Muslims, that kind of thing. People who, say, might have a harder time forging social connections because there aren't as many of them around, or because there aren't as many of them interested in the same things.

"Didn't Raph's company just close the doors on it's latest "project". Why do people listen to this guy still? "

His project closed before it could be opened because he ran out of funding. If you can't afford to keep a server up, you can't host an MMO of any sort. It's similar to having to move because you can no longer afford to rent a house. Not having the funding to keep developing a project doesn't automatically make everything you say irrelevant or stupid.

Uh, warped conclusions? All I did was paraphrase the conclusions the authors of the paper came to. And I wasn't involved in the research. My career and work have exactly zero to do with this study other than the fact that I blogged about it.

Socialist Powermongers? Socialism is an economic/political ideology;

"...production and distribution of goods are controlled substantially by the government rather than by private enterprise, and in which cooperation rather than competition guides economic activity. There are many varieties of socialism. Some socialists tolerate capitalism, as long as the government maintains the dominant influence over the economy; others insist on an abolition of private enterprise. All communists are socialists, but not all socialists are communists."
(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/socialism)

Now I'm not quite sure where you're going with this, socialists don't typically label minority groups as "mentally ill", indeed there isn't really any link between a theory that determines how politics/economics should work and how "normal" people should work.
As for referring to psychoanalysis, the field is largely a joke these days. Neurobiology, neurology and psychology are typically used.

Hit a nerve there.

Well yes, you hit my "ill-educated people hiding behind anonymity and spouting ignorance" nerve.
It happens quite often and I usually ignore it but your was such an...impressive piece of bovine excretion that I just had to reply.