I don't get on Facebook as often as I used to but whenever I do I get endless stupid ads. I saw an ad about gaming and how women make up almost half of all the gamers. I could swear I heard that men make up about 80% of gamers. Can someone clarify that? There are plenty of women who enjoy gaming, and I would've loved it if the women I've dated had been gamers. I do see the gaming industry doing the same thing as other industries in our current era. Over obsess about diversity/representation while crapping on your main block of customers.
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All you have to do to see the true demographics of the people buying and playing what most around here would consider games is go to gaming conventions and GameStops. Girls do play games, just in fewer numbers, and it’s usually ‘click to win’ games on phones.
Same with comics. Go to comic shops and count the number of men vs women. Women do read comics, just fewer, and they’ll tend not to be as avid about it as the men on top of that. Anyone in the industry knows the real numbers because we collect that data and make decisions on it. The stereotype of who plays games is mostly true because that’s who mostly plays games.
Streaming might change that a bit because you can have some tits and play a game and start an only fans, but that’s still few and far between for the actual gaming audience. If you look at their demographic numbers, you’ll find mostly men too.
Female gamers know this too and most actually enjoy it because it makes their dating lives a lot easier. They’re queens among gamers whereas in a general dating market they’d usually go down a few points.
That’s another thing I hadn’t considered when it comes to the market for this stuff. Girls often let the guy buy things like that and just enjoy the spoils. They’ll buy disposable things for themselves like clothes but there’s rarely any investment there when it comes to that sort of thing. Same with them going to bars. They’ll let the guy buy all the drinks, then go with him as he spends more money on all the things.