I used to follow a lot of gaming/nerd sites from back in the day when they catered to gamers/nerds and then started blocking them once they became corporate shills but I still get some articles in my feed and one of the gaming related articles threw out the "women make up half of all gamers" stat. I have no idea how in the world they came up with this stat, but if anyone who has been into gaming for a while would know there is something off about that. I've heard that they count someone playing candy crush or someone like my grandmother playing solitaire on their computer.
Now I get some games can appeal to more women than men. One of my guilty pleasures is the Sims and I've read that has a 60/40 women to men ratio which I can believe (of course the article was celebrating that point), but certain kinds of games like action, FPS, rpg, and sports would probably skew more male I would guess. Reminds me of how they try to push the 50/50 stat with comic books and they seem to include people who at the height of the MCU would claim to be comic book fans because they saw an Avengers movie.
Of course there are women who are into gaming, but the actual female gamers get little attention since they want to play games and not whine about the patriarchy. This whole thing does remind me of something someone posted on this site before. He said that if you want to know if a hobby is male dominated, just look at all the articles calling it "toxic". Take literature for example. I am a huge reader but I would say that women tend to be more hardcore readers than men, but something like Sci-fi is a genre that appeals to guys so we get endless lectures about females in Sci-Fi. Sci-Fi/Fantasy is my favorite genre to read but another genre I like is crime drama/murder mystery and since there are quite a few female authors I've never seen anyone complain about that. So I guess that is a good rule of thumb.
Sorry for the long post, but I am so sick of that stat!
It should be fine to have games that cater to women and games that cater to men but they will never admit that men and women like different things. Feminism have taught them that women are just as competitive as men, they are just as good fighters as men, anything a men can do a women can do better, so it stands to reason that the only reason they do not like shooters is because of the patriarchy, the only reason they are the bottom of competitive esports is also the patriarchy and toxic masculinity, not once did I hear someone say in an online discussion/ interview that maybe there is another reason why girls are not represented in top esports.
Now we have this stupid hypocritical reality were women want games that cater to women, obviously, but they also want the games that appeal to guys to cater to women. Because at the end of the day women tend to be more narcissistic and egocentric then men. Also most of the women in my life seem to have 0 problems with double standards.
In this discussions I tend to point out that there were good written strong female characters that are universally liked that did not have a lot of female players eg. RE 1,2,3. So my question is, should we no longer make games like re? Should we make horror games less scary and more colorful just to appeal to women? That would ruin the game entirely, it would not be a RE game. Should we ban people from making serious horror, shooters or sports games? If not and women do not, at large, like this games then why can't this games cater to men.
If it is ok to make games appeal to women then why can't we have games appeal to men. Should we make animal crossing grittier or the sims have shooting and driving mechanics in order to attract more men?
I've seen recently that they finally came after sports, it took them a long time but here we are. No more games made for men.
What did they do with sports games? I tend to buy Madden, Baseball, and Hockey but I’m like 3 years behind. That drives me nuts because I’ve been saying the same thing. That’s great that women have things that appeal to them. I’m just tired of the whining when guys have something that appeals to them. Tomb Raider is another game that was quite popular. Also remember Urban Chaos for PS1? You played as a black female cop. Even though my dad teased me I had Danger Girl as well
Haven’t some esports been openly hostile to men?
https://i.redd.it/7wuxgjeqvhm91.png
They made women play with men but you can't use certain moves on women. As you see this Nurse has a higher score then Zegras despite being mixed, somehow.
They also added female teams in Fifa, that no one played and the devs got upset, something like 5% of players even looked to see what it was about. I'm willing to bet that their new move will be to mix teams.
I can't remember exactly but TheImpossible1 was saying something about racing games as well, I've never been in to racing games so I do not remember the details.
Is just stupid, they can't accept that sport games appeal to men.
Wow. Zegras is a big star. I didn’t know about that. I heard about FIFA