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
Nobody is playing the womens teams.
Man, that is ridiculously low. No surprise people aren't playing the female teams, but I have to imagine you'd get more than 4% of people deciding to play one female match just for achievement hunting purposes.
Now that is the question what genre/type of games does achievement hunters gather around, my suspicion is that sport games is one of the odd one and they don't really get achievement hunters but rather action games/rpgs and perhaps arcade games get more of them.
I know a few achievement hunters. They'd play any game as long as the achievements aren't stupidly hard/long to get. `
There's also websites like TrueAchievement which add a bonus depending on the achievement's success rate among players: The more players the game have, and the lower the rate of the achievement, the higher the bonus. Since sports games are very popular with millions of sales each, but with low number of people actually caring for the achievements, they tend to have "higher achievement values".
https://www.trueachievements.com/game/FIFA-21/achievements You can see a few achievements have a ratio >2 (fairly high already) or even >5 (very high and very interesting).
Since the achievement is simply "play a women football match", and thus very easy to get, I suspect many achievement hunters who have this game did it already (it has a 20% unlock rate on this website, much higher than the global 3.8%). Still far from 100% though, and still has a ratio of 2.25, so yeah, people really aren't interested in that.
Interesting thanks for the links, Now this is the kind of useless studies social science should research.