The final boss of this game is an impossible to beat : Dallas under 13 boys team.
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I like that study, I did find a bit strange how many girls were in MMO, even that 23% of WOW players were girls. That has a lot of question marks. I've played that game for many years and girls were rare in any guild I was in, no were near a quarter of players.
Average PVP guilds and average Raid guilds. I had chars in multiple guilds. There was no high pressure, at least not after Burning Crusade, I quit early in to WOTLK and came back in to MOP but I no longer felt that drive to be first at anything and in my opinion gear was kind of busted.
Although I had very few girls in the guild, most raids or even pvp had 0 girls. The one girl that sometimes joined was a RL friend of mine. Strangely enough I had more girl players in Vanilla then I did in Legion. I quit for good in BFA, I did not even reach max level with a character.
Of course this is just my own experience so clearly is not proof of anything. However the stats may be skewed, I never remember being in a survey so it may be affected by whom they interview and then not take in to account things like hours played or interest in playing. Just because you tried it once because your boyfriend was in to it does not mean you are an active player. I don't even know how you go about making such survey, how do you find the players to interview and select them in an arbitrary fashion?
In ancient times I remember that Blizz said something like 20-25% of PCs are female but that is meaningless since a lot of guys have female characters so the 23% girl players is very sketchy.
Im a fairly hardcore mmo player (2000 hours in ff14) and you are exactly right.
Its easy to find female lead guilds, usually one or two women with their friends and a fuckton of betas and orbiters. Maybe 3 dudes in the entire place that can actually play the game at or above "competent" level and they are just there by dumb luck, or because they simply fell in and never left.
These guilds constantly splinter, as the head female can never stand when someone else is getting the attention even for a moment, so they become two guilds and start over farming more betas and orbiters in a never ending pyramid scheme of simping.
In my 8 years playing the game, ive met lots of girls. I have never met a girl simply sitting at home playing the game wishing someone would play with her or spending time solo questing. Even if they start that way it doesnt last even a few weeks before they realize the power of the vagina and fall right into it.
That said. Half, or more, of MMo players presenting themselves as girls (not just playing female characters, but presenting themselves as female on the other side of the controller) are dudes.
Ive ran guilds in 3 mmorpgs over 15 years... girls are 90% of the guild drama. A lot of times its 2 girls hating each other. One girl threatens to leave if you dont take her side. Often times both girls leave and they usually take a few simps with them.
Or.. if you dont wanna give them attention or go along with their attention whoring. Bitches be flirting in middle of a raid. They get pissy when you tell them to stop. White knights of course tries to defend her.
Like any organization, its unecessary drama and tension.
I remember quite a few females when I played wow. Like laptopwilleat says, they generally avoided high level play as did I. I was in a guild like 50/50 gender split focused on just game world questing and group questing. There was no raiding or pvp really. The guild leader was an elderly woman from Canada haha. She was cool tho