Since I play sports games sometimes I’ll get emails from EA and I notice that they are including women’s teams and really pushing them in their FIFA game and NHL game. Has there been some massive rise in women playing sports games? I always figured those were the games with the highest male percentage. Also if these companies believe in “representation” so much why not make a FIFA game plan of all womens teams?
I know in the grand scheme of things it isn’t a huge deal but this was surprising
I didn't even know they had women teams lol.
This is wikipedia so maybe not the best source, but they have a page about women playing video games: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_and_video_games
Sports games are the lowest at 2%, so you're right, they are the games with highest male gamers. This was done in 2017, but I don't see how simply adding a few women teams or leagues will change much. Look at the other genres, even when those genres are 'agendered' like Sci-fi MMO, strategy or racing, they are all very low among women. Women seems interested in quick games with low pressure, or focused on narrative, which is fairly far from what FIFA and other sports games are. No amount of DIE or whatever will ever change that. If the ratio goes up, it's simply because the game's so woke men are starting to move away too.
This is why it’s so annoying that we see all over where if guys enjoy something then the agenda is that women need to be injected into it and not the simple answer that certain entertainment appeals to more men and certain entertainment appeals to more women.