I can say from my experience most women I know are gamers. I’d say the biggest difference is they tend to play more single player experiences. My older sister has always been a big jRPG nerd, and my younger sis was always into Bethesda games, especially Fallout. Meanwhile a lot of my friends are into life sim games like Stardew Valley, the Sims, and Animal Crossing, and we tend to play the latest big nintendo game together.
I am probably the only person in my group of friends that does anything remotely multiplayer, unless it’s local or coop.
I can’t quite find where it is, but there is a Wikipedia article about percentage of female gamers around different parts of the world. I can remember FPS players was few, only about 10%, in Japan more Women play games, and in average it was indeed around 50%. And this number was from years ago.
I typically do it regardless since its not harming anyone by using it but is definitely helpful for those who need it. It does also help Monster Hunter understanding of needing it since I also have trouble determining if a message is meant to be sarcastic or fr fr
Few years ago I changed my nick on PSN because I coudn’t stand my old one anymore. I choose a name that sounded feminine to say the least. Unicorns and shit, don’t ask. So naturally people thought I was a gurl or at least super gay. I felt the change of behavior immediately.
In Destiny 2 alone I got revived way more often. People went out of their way to run across the open world map just to get to me. Damsel needed rescue I guess. I got a lot of invitations to Raids “Hey, we are LFG and we can explain everything to you if you want to”. I got these messages while standing arround the main hub. Doing nothing. While wearing the Raid exclusive Exotic on my character for everyone to see (fucking Eyes Of Tomorrow is almost as big as my char). I got called “bitch” and “slut” many times…come to think of it, that wasn’t new. Party invitations out of nowhere, chat invitations out of nowhere.
In Warframe some guy gave me an item for half the price for no apparent reason, after that he send me a chat invitation, I declined and he send me a PN wishing I would get raped. Another one I thought was afk in a mission, but no. He was just typing a message to me: “Hey, how are you doing? You new to Warframe?” Again, me jumping around in a highly optimized Nekros/Atterax build…
Sooooo online gaming is full of psychos. I didn’t question that but it was then when I fully understood how bad it was. There are a lot of women playing games, some even play Call of Whatever is cool atm. They just stay quiet and play eighter with friends or with other women. There are nerds out there who are beyond insufferable.
When I was about 13 or 14, I revealed to my WoW friend (who I’d been playing with for months) that I was a girl and within a day he went from being my cool friend to someone who was offering me raid gear in exchange for talking dirty to him through Ventrilo.
Nearly 20 years later and I refuse to let anyone in on my gender. It’s dehumanizing that we can’t even play a game without being harassed.
I often play female characters and occasionally have the same experienced.
Recently i started a new game, someone helped me with something that I thought would take like two minutes, but it went on and on and he was friendly and helped me further.
When we were finished after at least an hour, he said something which made it obvious he thought that I was a woman.
I corrected him and he said “oh, lol” and immedeatly left the group. So fucking weird.
It’s also funny to me because i never even look at usernames, neither in games or reddit, lemmy, etc. don’t know why, but I just skip over it. So I don’t even come to think who the person might be.
Only when I’m in a group and have adress someone specifically I read what the names are.
I’m seeing indie projects like BattleBit where they’re taking a very hardline stance towards voice toxicity, and I’m curious if that environment change could ever make it feel like a safer space to speak.
I’ve played wow (MMOs tend to be popular with women, my guild has several women), overwatch, and am playing diablo now. Call of duty just looks kinda boring to me.
I also play alot of single player games.
I can totally see why we’re more attracted to MMOs. Even male players are playing as women so it’s way easier for us to blend in. It’s also not really voice reliant so there isn’t an indication that we are women. Along with just typically having way more content we can do solo
I almost exclusively play single player games or multiplayer games with friends I know in real life. I’ve had some bad experiences with online gaming and they are often way too stressful for my liking.
The comments: No way, women don’t play games. I never see them.
Yeah no, they might not be on your games. But having seen the sheer lust for Link, I’m not surprised switch is popular.
And the crazy thing is, the industry really doesn’t do a good job at this. The numbers could really be higher, especially mobile, but the sheer number of male fantasy waifu games out there is ludicrous. (Although, unsurprisingly, the dollars earned from whales are overwhelming male, especially internationally where the wage gap is higher, so that’s what drives that).
Not to mention that a lot of women have bad experiences with online gamer guys being sexist assholes, so they might not want to call attention to themselves.
Even if I don’t intend to start hard-simping and white knighting, it’s always a good indication to me if a Discord server or community has at least one woman in it. This canary isn’t coughing up toxic fumes, so maybe I won’t mind this coal mine.
Word. Just left a few communities that I was the only gal in. They can choke on their rape jokes, dick holding and death threats. But I’m the one overreacting to them “burning off steam”.
I wanted to play a game without having to deal with a bunch of sexist manchildren, not call the suicide hotline twice in six months.
If a person is disinterested about a mundane news they read somewhere, they have the freedom to voice it do they not?
Nothing in their comment made it sound like they were “bothered” by it. You have this image set in your mind that you impose on anyone who doesn’t share your point of view. This kind of behaviour stems out from insecurity.
Edit: Going through this dudes profile, he’s got an asian fetish and supports prostitution LMFAOOOOO and mf has the audacity to act morally superior here.
Ah yes the classic go through their profile because got nothing else to say. I like women just fine, but can’t help but laugh at morons who make everything about gender.
Keep pushing your propaganda, maybe it will finally help you get laid or for whatever reason you do it for.
I think you need a nap. You seem unhappy, but remember that attacking everyone online isn’t going to make it any better. Women are pretty awesome, hopefully one day you get past your hatred of them
This is one example of what happens when women are not involved in a space. It allows for casual misogyny, because men do not tend to call out other men for bad behavior, which further isolates women in the space and keeps new women from joining. Both as consumers as well as producers.
Having a more even spread across genders means that we should eventually see more content created for and by women, which in turn will make the whole thing more accessible, and may ultimately tamp down on some of the incel garbage that many online gamer spaces have allowed to fester.
50% of video game players makes sense to me, depending on what you count as a video game player. If, say, it was anyone who’s played any video game in the last year, I believe be about right. Sims, among us, the dinosaur game in chrome, wordle, etc. it adds up
Men probably dedicate more time to gaming and make it a bigger part of our lives, hence why it would seem more common.
As a scientist I briefly read the Twitter chain by the company with some description of their methodology.
Honestly I didn’t really follow it and it’s hard to critique based on buzzwords and Tweets. The person who was posting it sounds like a businessman, throwing jargon and words rather than something coherent.
Ultimately I think that people are surprised by figures like “50% of gamers are female”. It might be 30%, or it might be something else. Maybe asking the questions a certain way biases the responses a certain way.
It’s hard to glean anything based on what I’ve seen. I don’t have any skin in this game, and I don’t care either way, but all I’ll say is that it’s hard to figure out the truth based on the information available.
Matt Piscatella is an NPD employee who regularly shares/comments on their monthly video game sales charts. He’s basically just talking about the survey his employer does.
These things are “biased” in all sorts of ways, even in the way the data is collected. What if women are 80% more likely to answer phone surveys? 70% more likely to answer email surveys? That’s going to hugely change the results.
While mathematically sure you might be able to use a sample size of 10k to extrapolate out, I don’t think you can in this instance.
Sims is pretty popular and the main version everyone plays is PC only, but can be run on laptops and other low end PCs. There are a lot of ‘I only play Sims’ people out there. Could account for some of the numbers
It looks like the data comes from Statista. After a quick google, they look to be credible. Though, they require a business solutions license to see the source, which is a cool $490.
Remember playing freecell/solitaire is playing a PC game. Are you honestly surprised to see that women play games on their phones? My aunt is almost 90 and she’ll fuck up most people in wordle
I hate it when people gatekeep what a game is. I’m a guy. I play Word Cookies constantly. Does that make me a gamer? Because I can literally play it for hours. I don’t play Call of Duty or whatever, I play Word Cookies on my phone. I would say that still counts.
But 50% of PC gaming? I know a lot of women hide the fact that they’re women to avoid sexists, but I just don’t see that figure being accurate, especially if there’s no reporting on how they came to that number
I know a lot of women who have played sim/management games like The Sims, Zoo Tycoon, Stardew Valley, etc.
A lot of this comes down to the actual survey questions that were used. If the wording of the survey questions was “Have you ever played…” as opposed to “Do you regularly play…” for example, then the numbers could be quite skewed.
Yep, plenty of girls/women out there who don’t really consider themselves “gamers” who will put multiple-digit hours into those management types of games. I personally know several like that. I would imagine a lot of women don’t really get into direct PVP online gaming due to the online environment and lack of attempts to appeal to female gamers with the designs of such games, but would probably play a lot of single-player in a bunch of different genres and series. As the article implies, Nintendo IPs in particular would be appealing due to lack of pandering to either the common “gamer” demographic or to what many other publishers think women want in games (overly stereotypical “girl stuff”).
I think this especially stems from how those games are seen by some more asshole-ish people. Few would disagree that strategy RPGs are not gaming, but I’ve had a clerk at gamestop lecture me about how my then-favorite title wasn’t a “real” part of the series. So it’s still my favorite, but I don’t bring it up anymore.
For much the same reason, there’s an internalized mental block concerning whether or not something like The Sims, Stardew, Animal Crossing, etc. are “real” games because they don’t really have a goal or require the same level of skill. If someone asks me what I play, I’m going to mention Hades before I ever breathe a word about Slime Rancher because one of those is going to get me stereotyped and insulted.
If all I played were really chill, micromanaging “girl games,” I just wouldn’t say anything and would have doubts about describing myself as being on the level “gamer” normally entails.
Brother, pretty much every single woman I know under the age of 40 plays, at the very minimum, Stardew Valley, Minecraft, and Terraria. Most of them also play other big games, like Dark Souls, Elden Ring, etc.
The genre that the mostly don’t play though are modern “arena” style shooters like Call of Duty, Halo, CSGO, Rainbow Six, etc.
They’re far more likely to play something like Fortnite or Hunt or something where you can have a small squad to roll with. Typically because it means they don’t have to deal with anywhere near the same number of toxic random assholes.
We don’t only exist in cute little spaces like mobile gaming. We’re all over the place. If you haven’t met many of us online it’s 100% because we didn’t like your vibe and never spoke or divulged that we were female to you specifically. There can’t even be an article about female gamers existing without you dweebs writing women off as probably just mobile game players ffs. Grow as a person. Please.
Hi, woman under 40 here. I’m AFKing at a mob farm I built in Minecraft right now as I browse Kbin. I create mods for Stardew Valley. I have a lot of management games and RPGs. I also avoid multiplayer unless I know I’ll only interact with a small closed circle of my real-life friends because I hear about how awful and bigoted people will act online. These people are also why I am not going to try those arena style shooters on the off chance I fall in love with the genre. People being awful is a near-certainty in those games, while me turning out to love the gameplay is just a chance. I’ve got other things I can play that won’t expose me to this and that I already know I enjoy.
I swear every girl I know went from Animal Crossing to now playing tears of the kingdom nonstop! We’re definitely drawn to those types of games for sure
Yay equal sexism and racism for everyone! Hope they can get past the bold asshats that feel secure being behind the internet. The mute feature in many games is extremely handy. I still get people in my dota games being extremely sexist when a women speaks
I can only play Overwatch without tilting if I disable text and voice chat, except with my friends that I know IRL. And that’s considering I’m a guy. Interestingly enough, the coordination doesn’t really suffer with the ping system
Been playing multiplayer games since I was a kid, I’m in my 30s now, I am loooong past the point of ever playing any online game without automuting everyone unless I know them. I’m utterly done with letting loudmouth shitheads ruin my enjoyment. Even games where they substitute an in-game chat with some emote bullshit, I mute those too.
One of the things I like about LoL Wild Rift on mobile is that they have a detailed ping system so you don’t have to use the in-game chat (because it’s on phones). It’s so much nicer than PC LoL. The games move faster, so no one has the time to pull up the touch keyboard and harass you.
My wife loves her Nintendo switch and so does my daughter. I also played Diablo 4 with my wife which is amazing. I’m all for more women playing games. I don’t have to hide by myself in a room playing video games anymore. It’s just a normal part of my family. There are many benefits to women playing games beyond what I just mentioned obviously.
I’ve been playing mmorpgs for years or at least since tibia, lineage, pwo and mu and all my guild leaders have been women, with a sustancial quantity of women was well on parties and guild wars. What’s this all about
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I can say from my experience most women I know are gamers. I’d say the biggest difference is they tend to play more single player experiences. My older sister has always been a big jRPG nerd, and my younger sis was always into Bethesda games, especially Fallout. Meanwhile a lot of my friends are into life sim games like Stardew Valley, the Sims, and Animal Crossing, and we tend to play the latest big nintendo game together.
I am probably the only person in my group of friends that does anything remotely multiplayer, unless it’s local or coop.
cool. i can say from experience most women I have ever met do not play video games.
I can’t quite find where it is, but there is a Wikipedia article about percentage of female gamers around different parts of the world. I can remember FPS players was few, only about 10%, in Japan more Women play games, and in average it was indeed around 50%. And this number was from years ago.
Women play games huh? Name 3 women, I’ll wait.
It was a joke, FFS.
Gotta have a /s attached
Could have just been not funny to a lot of people or because some of us are autistic and sometimes can tell sarcasm as easily through text
Half of the time I use /s I get told how unnecessary it is. Damned if I do, damned if I don’t.
I typically do it regardless since its not harming anyone by using it but is definitely helpful for those who need it. It does also help Monster Hunter understanding of needing it since I also have trouble determining if a message is meant to be sarcastic or fr fr
Lemmy is much more sensitive than Reddit.
Few years ago I changed my nick on PSN because I coudn’t stand my old one anymore. I choose a name that sounded feminine to say the least. Unicorns and shit, don’t ask. So naturally people thought I was a gurl or at least super gay. I felt the change of behavior immediately.
In Destiny 2 alone I got revived way more often. People went out of their way to run across the open world map just to get to me. Damsel needed rescue I guess. I got a lot of invitations to Raids “Hey, we are LFG and we can explain everything to you if you want to”. I got these messages while standing arround the main hub. Doing nothing. While wearing the Raid exclusive Exotic on my character for everyone to see (fucking Eyes Of Tomorrow is almost as big as my char). I got called “bitch” and “slut” many times…come to think of it, that wasn’t new. Party invitations out of nowhere, chat invitations out of nowhere.
In Warframe some guy gave me an item for half the price for no apparent reason, after that he send me a chat invitation, I declined and he send me a PN wishing I would get raped. Another one I thought was afk in a mission, but no. He was just typing a message to me: “Hey, how are you doing? You new to Warframe?” Again, me jumping around in a highly optimized Nekros/Atterax build…
Sooooo online gaming is full of psychos. I didn’t question that but it was then when I fully understood how bad it was. There are a lot of women playing games, some even play Call of Whatever is cool atm. They just stay quiet and play eighter with friends or with other women. There are nerds out there who are beyond insufferable.
this is sadly how men are treated differently irl as well
edit: point proven
I typically use masculine names when playing multiplayer games to avoid most of the misogyny. I also pretend I’m mute so I don’t have to use a mic.
I have ran into a lot of women playing valorant and COD Warzone.
We used to do that intentionally to get free shit.
When I was about 13 or 14, I revealed to my WoW friend (who I’d been playing with for months) that I was a girl and within a day he went from being my cool friend to someone who was offering me raid gear in exchange for talking dirty to him through Ventrilo.
Nearly 20 years later and I refuse to let anyone in on my gender. It’s dehumanizing that we can’t even play a game without being harassed.
I often play female characters and occasionally have the same experienced.
Recently i started a new game, someone helped me with something that I thought would take like two minutes, but it went on and on and he was friendly and helped me further. When we were finished after at least an hour, he said something which made it obvious he thought that I was a woman. I corrected him and he said “oh, lol” and immedeatly left the group. So fucking weird.
It’s also funny to me because i never even look at usernames, neither in games or reddit, lemmy, etc. don’t know why, but I just skip over it. So I don’t even come to think who the person might be. Only when I’m in a group and have adress someone specifically I read what the names are.
The only time I look at usernames is when someone says “thanks for the advice cumspanker3000” or something like that
Oh yeah that too. 😂
im doing my part!
Me too! But I still avoid voice chat… :P
I’m seeing indie projects like BattleBit where they’re taking a very hardline stance towards voice toxicity, and I’m curious if that environment change could ever make it feel like a safer space to speak.
Ugh same. The number of gross comments I’ve gotten on vc over the years is enough to fill a book.
I’m mainly on PC now though, playing single player games or games with my fiancée and/or friends
I just avoid pvp or most multiplayer.
Seriously. Even PvE multiplayer games suck these days.
Yes sadly me too :( I play multiplayer with my fiancée or with my FFXIV guild, but no one else
Glad to see the gate keeping came with us.
I’ve played wow (MMOs tend to be popular with women, my guild has several women), overwatch, and am playing diablo now. Call of duty just looks kinda boring to me. I also play alot of single player games.
I can totally see why we’re more attracted to MMOs. Even male players are playing as women so it’s way easier for us to blend in. It’s also not really voice reliant so there isn’t an indication that we are women. Along with just typically having way more content we can do solo
I almost exclusively play single player games or multiplayer games with friends I know in real life. I’ve had some bad experiences with online gaming and they are often way too stressful for my liking.
Yeah same, my friends list has been cultivated over many, many years. I don’t use voice with randos usually.
The comments: No way, women don’t play games. I never see them.
Yeah no, they might not be on your games. But having seen the sheer lust for Link, I’m not surprised switch is popular.
And the crazy thing is, the industry really doesn’t do a good job at this. The numbers could really be higher, especially mobile, but the sheer number of male fantasy waifu games out there is ludicrous. (Although, unsurprisingly, the dollars earned from whales are overwhelming male, especially internationally where the wage gap is higher, so that’s what drives that).
Not to mention that a lot of women have bad experiences with online gamer guys being sexist assholes, so they might not want to call attention to themselves.
Ngl, I met some hot chicks on Apex and Overwatch. A few became LDRs.
What’s an LDR?
Loser Detection Radar
Even if I don’t intend to start hard-simping and white knighting, it’s always a good indication to me if a Discord server or community has at least one woman in it. This canary isn’t coughing up toxic fumes, so maybe I won’t mind this coal mine.
Word. Just left a few communities that I was the only gal in. They can choke on their rape jokes, dick holding and death threats. But I’m the one overreacting to them “burning off steam”.
I wanted to play a game without having to deal with a bunch of sexist manchildren, not call the suicide hotline twice in six months.
Long distant relationship
OK, why is this news? Is it important that women play games for some reason?
Yes, it is important that women are enjoying a traditionally male hobby more and more. Does that bother you?
Maybe they’re disinterested. Why does them being disinterested bother you though?
So disinterested that they wrote a comment and it, right?
If a person is disinterested about a mundane news they read somewhere, they have the freedom to voice it do they not? Nothing in their comment made it sound like they were “bothered” by it. You have this image set in your mind that you impose on anyone who doesn’t share your point of view. This kind of behaviour stems out from insecurity.
Ohhh analyze me harder daddy.
I can see from your previous comments that your pretty obsessed with this story. Not a big fan of women huh?
Edit: Going through this dudes profile, he’s got an asian fetish and supports prostitution LMFAOOOOO and mf has the audacity to act morally superior here.
Ah yes the classic go through their profile because got nothing else to say. I like women just fine, but can’t help but laugh at morons who make everything about gender. Keep pushing your propaganda, maybe it will finally help you get laid or for whatever reason you do it for.
I think you need a nap. You seem unhappy, but remember that attacking everyone online isn’t going to make it any better. Women are pretty awesome, hopefully one day you get past your hatred of them
Information is good. There’s a stereotype that gaming is a male dominated hobby. This article challenges that.
because the stereotype of a gamer is a basement dwelling male nerd who has no social life and zero social skills being disgusting and smelly.
not a nice young lady sitting in her sunny second floor bedroom on her bed playing her switch looking wholesome and happy.
There’s a lot to unpack here, and I’m not sure that I can do it justice.
https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/1/20/20808875/gamergate-lessons-cultural-impact-changes-harassment-laws
This is one example of what happens when women are not involved in a space. It allows for casual misogyny, because men do not tend to call out other men for bad behavior, which further isolates women in the space and keeps new women from joining. Both as consumers as well as producers.
Having a more even spread across genders means that we should eventually see more content created for and by women, which in turn will make the whole thing more accessible, and may ultimately tamp down on some of the incel garbage that many online gamer spaces have allowed to fester.
You read it here, video games are for girls. Now stop playing games and get to work. /s
I find a lot of these figures really hard to believe, to be honest.
Looking at the link, there is little I can find about their methodology.
50% of video game players makes sense to me, depending on what you count as a video game player. If, say, it was anyone who’s played any video game in the last year, I believe be about right. Sims, among us, the dinosaur game in chrome, wordle, etc. it adds up
Men probably dedicate more time to gaming and make it a bigger part of our lives, hence why it would seem more common.
It’s a survey of 10k households, US only (since that’s what NPD/Circana is).
I don’t believe these figures are even remotely close to reality.
https://twitter.com/matpiscatella/status/1667172957066600448?s=46&t=Cbb3biYQblpmbWC3J0KfQg
i wonder what the demo of those households is?
as far as i can tell video games are not popular with wealthier people. most gamer girls i ever met were working class people.
As a scientist I briefly read the Twitter chain by the company with some description of their methodology.
Honestly I didn’t really follow it and it’s hard to critique based on buzzwords and Tweets. The person who was posting it sounds like a businessman, throwing jargon and words rather than something coherent.
Ultimately I think that people are surprised by figures like “50% of gamers are female”. It might be 30%, or it might be something else. Maybe asking the questions a certain way biases the responses a certain way.
It’s hard to glean anything based on what I’ve seen. I don’t have any skin in this game, and I don’t care either way, but all I’ll say is that it’s hard to figure out the truth based on the information available.
Matt Piscatella is an NPD employee who regularly shares/comments on their monthly video game sales charts. He’s basically just talking about the survey his employer does.
These things are “biased” in all sorts of ways, even in the way the data is collected. What if women are 80% more likely to answer phone surveys? 70% more likely to answer email surveys? That’s going to hugely change the results.
While mathematically sure you might be able to use a sample size of 10k to extrapolate out, I don’t think you can in this instance.
Sims is pretty popular and the main version everyone plays is PC only, but can be run on laptops and other low end PCs. There are a lot of ‘I only play Sims’ people out there. Could account for some of the numbers
It looks like the data comes from Statista. After a quick google, they look to be credible. Though, they require a business solutions license to see the source, which is a cool $490.
In other words, looks legit imho.
Remember playing freecell/solitaire is playing a PC game. Are you honestly surprised to see that women play games on their phones? My aunt is almost 90 and she’ll fuck up most people in wordle
I hate it when people gatekeep what a game is. I’m a guy. I play Word Cookies constantly. Does that make me a gamer? Because I can literally play it for hours. I don’t play Call of Duty or whatever, I play Word Cookies on my phone. I would say that still counts.
Exactly
Tell your gmom to 1v1 me on Rust
Why would I let a dead woman play that shit game? It’s terrible and somehow the community is worse.
I understand being skeptical, but there’s no reason it should be hard to believe…
Well if they’re including mobile gaming, I can see it.
But 50% of PC gaming? I know a lot of women hide the fact that they’re women to avoid sexists, but I just don’t see that figure being accurate, especially if there’s no reporting on how they came to that number
I know a lot of women who have played sim/management games like The Sims, Zoo Tycoon, Stardew Valley, etc.
A lot of this comes down to the actual survey questions that were used. If the wording of the survey questions was “Have you ever played…” as opposed to “Do you regularly play…” for example, then the numbers could be quite skewed.
Yep, plenty of girls/women out there who don’t really consider themselves “gamers” who will put multiple-digit hours into those management types of games. I personally know several like that. I would imagine a lot of women don’t really get into direct PVP online gaming due to the online environment and lack of attempts to appeal to female gamers with the designs of such games, but would probably play a lot of single-player in a bunch of different genres and series. As the article implies, Nintendo IPs in particular would be appealing due to lack of pandering to either the common “gamer” demographic or to what many other publishers think women want in games (overly stereotypical “girl stuff”).
My wife has solo four stars in every single overcooked map. She still doesn’t think she’s a “gamer”
I think this especially stems from how those games are seen by some more asshole-ish people. Few would disagree that strategy RPGs are not gaming, but I’ve had a clerk at gamestop lecture me about how my then-favorite title wasn’t a “real” part of the series. So it’s still my favorite, but I don’t bring it up anymore.
For much the same reason, there’s an internalized mental block concerning whether or not something like The Sims, Stardew, Animal Crossing, etc. are “real” games because they don’t really have a goal or require the same level of skill. If someone asks me what I play, I’m going to mention Hades before I ever breathe a word about Slime Rancher because one of those is going to get me stereotyped and insulted.
If all I played were really chill, micromanaging “girl games,” I just wouldn’t say anything and would have doubts about describing myself as being on the level “gamer” normally entails.
Brother, pretty much every single woman I know under the age of 40 plays, at the very minimum, Stardew Valley, Minecraft, and Terraria. Most of them also play other big games, like Dark Souls, Elden Ring, etc.
The genre that the mostly don’t play though are modern “arena” style shooters like Call of Duty, Halo, CSGO, Rainbow Six, etc. They’re far more likely to play something like Fortnite or Hunt or something where you can have a small squad to roll with. Typically because it means they don’t have to deal with anywhere near the same number of toxic random assholes.
Nah they likely included mobile brainless games which everyone male or female downloads to pass the time
We don’t only exist in cute little spaces like mobile gaming. We’re all over the place. If you haven’t met many of us online it’s 100% because we didn’t like your vibe and never spoke or divulged that we were female to you specifically. There can’t even be an article about female gamers existing without you dweebs writing women off as probably just mobile game players ffs. Grow as a person. Please.
A lot of dudes in here accidentally revealing themselves to be fucking losers.
“Girls don’t play real games. Only mouth breathing, basement dwelling neckbeards like me play real games!”
Why wouldn’t they? Those games are still games. This is a marketing survey.
Hi, woman under 40 here. I’m AFKing at a mob farm I built in Minecraft right now as I browse Kbin. I create mods for Stardew Valley. I have a lot of management games and RPGs. I also avoid multiplayer unless I know I’ll only interact with a small closed circle of my real-life friends because I hear about how awful and bigoted people will act online. These people are also why I am not going to try those arena style shooters on the off chance I fall in love with the genre. People being awful is a near-certainty in those games, while me turning out to love the gameplay is just a chance. I’ve got other things I can play that won’t expose me to this and that I already know I enjoy.
TL;DR: local woman says you’re right
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they are including majong and card games. my 75 year old mother plays those on her ipad/pc all day.
she also thinks video games are evil and rot your brain because they are all sex and violence
Well, my gf uses more my switch than I, so yeah.
animal crossing?
When it was “on its prime” yeah, nowadays TOTK.
I swear every girl I know went from Animal Crossing to now playing tears of the kingdom nonstop! We’re definitely drawn to those types of games for sure
Well both are excellent games and fit my gf’s gaming skills 😂
Sounds like you’ve got a keeper there bud…
About time
Yay equal sexism and racism for everyone! Hope they can get past the bold asshats that feel secure being behind the internet. The mute feature in many games is extremely handy. I still get people in my dota games being extremely sexist when a women speaks
I can only play Overwatch without tilting if I disable text and voice chat, except with my friends that I know IRL. And that’s considering I’m a guy. Interestingly enough, the coordination doesn’t really suffer with the ping system
Been playing multiplayer games since I was a kid, I’m in my 30s now, I am loooong past the point of ever playing any online game without automuting everyone unless I know them. I’m utterly done with letting loudmouth shitheads ruin my enjoyment. Even games where they substitute an in-game chat with some emote bullshit, I mute those too.
One of the things I like about LoL Wild Rift on mobile is that they have a detailed ping system so you don’t have to use the in-game chat (because it’s on phones). It’s so much nicer than PC LoL. The games move faster, so no one has the time to pull up the touch keyboard and harass you.
My wife loves her Nintendo switch and so does my daughter. I also played Diablo 4 with my wife which is amazing. I’m all for more women playing games. I don’t have to hide by myself in a room playing video games anymore. It’s just a normal part of my family. There are many benefits to women playing games beyond what I just mentioned obviously.
I’ve been playing mmorpgs for years or at least since tibia, lineage, pwo and mu and all my guild leaders have been women, with a sustancial quantity of women was well on parties and guild wars. What’s this all about
The irony of the company that picked boys over girls having the majority of their users being girls