64% of Online Gamers Are Female 187
According to a report discussed on 1up, a new study by the Nielsen folks finds that more than half of the 117 Million U.S. online gamers are women. From the article: "The study's announcement release doesn't break down what games they're playing, though we expect sites like pogo.com, which feature a multitude of Flash-based games are rather high on the list. Even more surprising is how many older gamers are playing. While the teenage market dominates in numbers, the study says more than 15 million gamers, about 8%, are actually at least 45 years old."
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Senior Thesis (Score:2)
Well, and Doom. We also played networked Doom off of USB flash drives. But you get the point.
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Dont believe the hype!
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I thought that was in Minnesota [publicradio.org].
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Is this really true? (Score:5, Funny)
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"People can come up with statistics to prove anything... Forfty percent of all people know that" - Homer
I bet it's true (Score:5, Informative)
So it is believable, but it might not be how you think - I doubt they are running round fragging everyone they see, or playing WoW (although some might...)
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Can't help but think... (Score:3, Insightful)
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Most of the girls I know that don't play it, had been dumped for it at some point.
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Gamers? (Score:3, Insightful)
In other news (Score:1)
I find it hard to believe the sample they surveyed are an accurate representation of the general population. Most females I know have almost no interest in gaming at all.
It's going to have to take alot of grannies playing poker and solitaire to make up that 64%.
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Pacman is 64% violent (Score:2)
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90% of gaming girls are guys playing girls (Score:5, Interesting)
Anyway, what's the Second Life slang for guys playing as girls? Gurlz or something?
Many actual Real Life(TM) girls play as male game characters so they won't get hit on or bothered.
I play mail and female characters in SL. The guy character gets left alone except by sex workers who want to sell him their wares. He's much like the real me and fairly boring to game with.
The girl character, who is not at all like me, has an incredibly active social thing going on and has accumulated dozens of friends without even trying. She's fun to play because she's so different from me. But she does get hit on all the time just because she appears to be female. It's common for complete strangers to walk up and make all sorts of rather forward comments.
My guy character gets none of that.
I have a new appreciation for some of the hassle girls go through.
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Of course, that can't be considered global figures for EvE because you have to be a certain mindset to want to live in the more dangerous areas of space.
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Re:90% of gaming girls are guys playing girls (Score:5, Insightful)
Fuck this pseudo sensative snag bullshit. It doesn't matter to me now as I'm no longer single and failing one of us dieing I can see this relationship lasting. But oh to have had such hassles! Girls get lots of offers - many not very good ones, but some good - without having to work for it. Guys have to work very hard and often the girls go for good looking fucktards that treat them like dirt. (Yep men do this too - go for the bimbo that treats them like shit, but not as often, and the bottom line is it's much easier for a female to find a suitable partner, and they usually get a wide selection)
So girls get hit on. If the guy's unpleasant how hard is it to say "fuck off and leave me alone you small dicked loser". Many guys will get the hint if dropped on them like a sledgehammer. There might be a little bit of unpleasantness back but few stalk based on one conversation. If a girl's in an environment where it goes beyond a few lewd comments she should get out. Only when that isn't possible is there a real problem. But there's a world of difference between being hit on and being assaulted.
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Doesn't seem fair if the environment in question is, for example, where she works. Maybe it's just me, though.
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Pity if she likes her job. Life's not fair some times. But there are people out there who will think nothing of raping and murdering anyone at a whim.
The thread that proves /. is not good with women (Score:2)
I guarantee you that girls spend a lot more time talking about, and thinking about how to get men interested in them than men do. How much time do you spend on your look before you go to a bar? How much money have you spent on clothes and make-up, and lotions, and shoes? Attractive women spend A TON!
often the girls go for good looking fucktards that treat them like dirt
Another misguided statement.
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I'm no longer single. When I was dating I wouldn't go out dressed like a hobo. Also how superficial are you if you're only attracted to the ones that are made up to the hilt and spend all their time on that crap? My fiancee does spend some time and money on being an attractive female. But she doesn't spend TONS of time and money on it and if she did we'd have a problem.
Yes, I will agree lot's of attractive girls go for guys that tr
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You seem to be bitterly defending certain things that I don't really disagree with. Yeah, I know some guys are really good at picking up on subtle communication, and yes, they are much better at picking up chicks, and it has nothing to do with how good looking they are. However, I guarantee you that they dress well and stand out in a crowd. I also guarantee you that THEY spent time on that stuff, it is only natural to a select few. But in
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How much money have you spent on clothes and make-up, and lotions, and shoes? Attractive women spend A TON!
Bollocks! Many attractive women look fantastice in a £10 pair of jeans, a t-shirt and no make-up or other rubbish. I should know - I married one :)
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freedom and consequence (Score:3, Insightful)
We live in a pretty free society. You have the right to wear anything you want, subject to decency laws of the area/society of course. As soon as you step out into public, you should realise that the freedom to wear what you want, also has consequences. If you wear short skirts, you're going to get hit on, and most
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The danger comes in when there are conflicting socially acceptable standards. For example, in Australian in recent years we had a spate of gang rapes in Sydney by a group of Lebanese muslims who were yanking anglo-saxon girls off the street because 'white girls are sluts and are asking for it'.
In their little segment of society, women are expected to be covered with a veil from head to foot when in public or they are being deliberately provocative. It is unreasonable in their eyes for men to be expected to
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This whole "girls should be able to wear shorts skirts or even walk down the street naked if they want to without fear of be
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If a guy's showing you interest respectfully then by all means be gracious about turning him down. If it's respectful it's a compliment and whining about it happening too much shows just how good you girls have it.
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I'm sorry, but I have to say, if I see a girl sitting reading David Weber, I am almost certainly going to go say hi and introduce myself. I apologize if this comes off as hitting on you or you are offended. But, besides at conventions, finding a normal, even semi-attractive lady that is reading one of my favorite authors is a very good clue that she would probably make, at least, very good friend material. Especially if she is doing so at a restaurant or shop that I also like to frequent.
And I do hav
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How do you play a mail character? Do you get to deliver the post?
Questionable Statistic (Score:2)
PS. Isn't the higher number of male gamers one of the reasons people claim males are the majority in the IT industry?
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I've met precisely 1 female programmer in my life.. couldn't predict the percentage on that but it's 1%.
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As with the basis of this slashdot poll, I think the problem with most is this statistic, that this bases everything on a broad range of games. While the slashdot community assumes they are talking about actual gamers. ie: men vs women, with high-end gaming rigs playing MMOs, FPS, or RTS. Not box puzzle, like games. The problem here is we consider 'gamer' to be on the level of owning a gaming rig, and competing in MMOs, FPS, etc...
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Depends on the project (Score:2)
I'm not saying that it's not male-dominated by any means, but there are certain types of development work that seem to have more women in them than others.
At least where I've worked, there seem to be a lot more women in database systems programming than in other areas. I have no idea why this is, and it could have had more to do with the projects and companies involved than the work itself, but that was my experience.
In general, the projects where I ha
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I think this is an excellent point, actually. I daresay most girls/women have picked up an XboX or PS2 controller at some point in their lives, but that doesn't make them gamers. Still, there are a few who game as a hobby, and in future it may be that there will be a fairly even split betwe
Welcome to the internet... (Score:1)
dupe! (Score:2)
"YOUR NOT A GIRL" (Score:2)
fakegirl:Soo big boy, I..
Red:You're not a girl!
fakegirl:What! Ofcourse I am!
Red:A REAL girl?
bystander:Who's a girl?
bystander:I like girls!
Red:Shut up you!
fakegirl:Yes, I am really a girl.. tee hee hee
How to conduct this study! (Score:3, Interesting)
1) www.mirc.com
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Seriously, though. I don't doubt these results at all, but I would love to see the figures of hours spent per week and compare it between the sexes. The results would surely favor men to be the biggest users.
So does anyone know how many female gamers we have in a game like World of Warcraft? I'm sure the numbers stated above are taken from flash based games and alike.
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Pretty weak stuff to be on the front page of
64% of Online Gamers Are Female (Score:2, Funny)
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Go buy World of Warcraft, install it on your computer, and join the online sensation before we all murder you.
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Neither figure is surprising... (Score:2, Interesting)
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That's because we work with bricks and logic all day while women work hard pretending to be human.
MMORPG (Score:1)
I knew i was spending to much time away from my pc (Score:3, Funny)
They're all playing Sudoku (Score:3, Informative)
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This was done by a company that prides itself on accurracy and is taken seriously by every major corporation out there vying for the consumer "entertainment" dollar.
Somehow, reality being what it is, you having stupid kneejerk prejudices does not make them true. Thanksfully.
I know a huge share of the market is pre-family, and most of those are male. But in the post-family crowd, the target audience of said company, many more women play things that the pubecent c
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Not so bad (Score:3, Funny)
Okay, so you're saying that there's a 36% percent chance that the hot female night elf I cybered with last night was really a man?
"With a name like 'Cryinggam', I figured she just needed a little comforting!"
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Wouldn't the correct title be: (Score:1, Insightful)
More than one third of the U.S. pop is a gamer? (Score:2)
--Which doesn't necessarily say much for everybody who isn't a gamer, given that something like 95% of the population are also TV addicts.
Dream on.
-FL
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That is such bull (Score:1)
Online gaming not gaming in general (Score:3, Insightful)
Given that on average women tend to be more adept of social activities than men (at least that's my experience), it isn't surprising at all that women go for games where they are in contact with other people.
In my long experience with online RPGs (from MUDs all the way to WoW and Guild Wars), women (as in confirmed women
Online gaming is usually more appropriated to socializing (pretty much the only exception being FPSs and RTSs) than offline gaming (unless you invite your buddies over for a session of drinking and blasting each other out with RPGs
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If your mother's anyhting like mine... (Score:5, Interesting)
While this might attract some males ... (Score:1)
Female?!? (Score:1)
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Nielsen study probably focused on casual gaming (Score:2)
Are they gamers? Sure they are, since they DO play games (and for long periods of time too!). Wo
One-girl Case Study (Score:3, Interesting)
I once knew a girl who spent tons of time playing.... Runescape. I tried it at her suggestion and decided that it was the most mind-numbingly boring thing I'd ever attempted. So why did she play?
"She was away from home, didn't know too many people, and probably used it as a social outlet." The preceding sentence is likely true, but it's also a gross oversimplification. It is not as though she had any respect for the people she interacted with in the MMO world: She said they were all "idiot teenagers." But then, this is a girl who freely admitted that many of her real-life 'friends' were people who were younger than she was or who she considered not to be terribly intelligent: She liked to surround herself with idiots so that she looked better to herself by comparison. Runescape was a convenient idiot-zoo for her.
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Online Poker (Score:2)
117M _US_ gamers? (Score:2)
Bring on the pickup lines... (Score:2)
[apologies to NetHack Wizards]
for myself (Score:2)
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And mom still pays the bills which accounts for the high number of women.
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Yes, they're gross-looking postal workers, but are they chicks or dudes?