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I'm guessing most women play WoW.
I'm talking about a per capita amount like out of every 100 people 20 are female.
I once heard that 40% of WoW players were female, but that sounds high. PvP servers would have fewer women while RP servers would have more, I assume.
I would think a game like EVE would have a small female population.
Any websites track gender numbers?
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This site is slightly outdated, but gives excellent research info on MMOs.
http://www.nickyee.com/daedalus/archives/000194.php
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I remember CCP actually released the percentage of females that were subbed to EVE a couple of years ago. It was just over 3% at the time.
Also your WOW number sounds pretty accurate according to a BBC study done in '08
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Heh, two years ago, my wife was one of 'em. She rode shotgun on nullsec mining operations and was a decent PVP pilot.
She insists she's not a "gamer", but she played Eve and loved it. She plays CIv 4 mostly now, and refuses to save/restore because that would be "retarded".
Just yesterday she saw me playing XCOM and was all up in my grill about it. I'm going to install it on her computer today and school her in the basics.
But she's not a "gamer". Nope.
I can also roleplay the tower in a chess game and shout "is that a peasant at the horizon I see? I will smash it I will! Oh damn I broke one of my merlons!". -- maji
Farmville
Second Life is interesting Linden Labs publishes a report by gender.
But in May of 2005 there were more female players of SL than male.
That number has steadily decreased over the years and is now around 40% female.
I wonder why, could it be because of all the creepy stuff that goes on in SL?
Well shave my back and call me an elf! -- Oghren
Someone found a winner.
My wife plays Eternal Lands and has been watching me the last few days on regnum. So who knows she may be a gamer yet.
there was that time it rained penises at someones wedding as well iirc.
Into the breach meatbags
My wife enjoys EQ2 and she is in all female guild. No boys allowed
How do you know? : )
Because of this thing called voice chat
they don't take anyone in guild without voice interview first.
Imagine if it was the other way around, an only boys guild. People would scream bloody murder.
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Yup - We're taking WoW over one server at a time.
We have female only guilds, we have pink tabards and yes when we get on vent we do nothing but talk about shopping, shoes and how the last time we got our nails done how great they looked right after but like 2 days later they've completely gone to hell.
And no, we don't have a clue how to play the game, I personally just push random bottoms and hope something goes right; who knew if you got 25 of us on the lich king doing the same thing mr. frostbite would go down so easily... iknowright?
Oh and if you don't play WoW and play some other more complicated, convoluted, "technical" game like eve, or runscape or whatever to like... get away from us. Don't bother man, just don't bother. We're all over the place.
We have our pink mouses, our pink keyboards, t-shits that spell the word Girl in like 50 different ways (i.e.: Girlz, Gurls, Gurlz, G!lrz, Gu!z, etc, etc), we have our bras, our tampons, make up, spare sweater in case it's cold (it doesn't matter where we're going, it could always be cold) and we're going to take over... oh yeah, we're taking over.
Oh yeah by the way.
Farmville is... AWESOME!
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When have female only guilds, we have pink tabards and yes when we get on vent we do nothing but talk about shopping, shoes and how the last time we got our nails done how great they looked right after but like 2 days later they've completely gone to hell.
And no, we don't have a clue how to play the game, I personally just push random bottoms and hope something goes right; who knew if you got 25 of us on the lich king doing the same thing mr. frostbite would go down so easily... iknowright?
Oh and if you don't play WoW and play some other more complicated, convoluted, "technical" game like eve, or runscape or whatever to like... get away from us. Don't bother man, just don't bother. We're all over the place.
We have our pink mouses, our pink keyboards, t-shits that spell the word Girl in like 50 different ways (i.e.: Girlz, Gurls, Gurlz, G!lrz, Gu!z, etc, etc), we have our bras, our tampons, make up, spare sweater in case it's cold (I doesn't matter where we're going, it could always be cold) and we're going to take over... oh yeah, we're taking over.
Oh yeah by the way.
Farmville is... AWESOME!
Thanks for enlightening me.
* backs slowly away while not making eye contact *
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Understanding sarcasm seems to be a lost "art" nowadays.... I wonder where things went wrong.
No required quests! And if I decide I want to be an assassin-cartographer-dancer-pastry chef who lives only to stalk and kill interior decorators, then that's who I want to be, even if it takes me four years to max all the skills and everyone else thinks I'm freaking nuts. -Madimorga-
Isn't it OBVIOUS? It's SO hard to tell nowadays because all you do on the INTERNET is TYPE - OBVIOUSLY, if you could SPEAK, you could hear their TONE OF VOICE, which is a dead GIVEAWAY of SARCASM. Duh!!!
To the OP: Chalk one up for WoW. I've met plenty of girls in that game, mostly older women, but still female.
Never touched WoW.
Couple of my friends played it. I could not get past the (imo) horrid graphics.
That is discriminating……..I’m telling. I would like to know, how do they make their members prove they are female?
I have to say EvE is probably one of my all time favorites... Then again, both my parents were nerds, my dad an engineer and he used to babysit me by handing me repair manuals for military helicopters... I did not have a normal childhood.
Vent probably, though I've heard some people who, I swear, could go either way. RL pix maybez? Though you should never trust those, not with a friend called Google.
Maybe if you act "girly" enough.
I've known some women with very masculine voices.
"" Voice acting isn't an RPG element....it's just a production value." - grumpymel2
Lawsuits(pertaining to discrimination in its various forms) started coming up that were filed by a bunch of people that insisted society be policically correct 100% of the time.
Would I be sexist if I said the Sims? ;x
Come onn, don't knock me too badly. Hey I like the Sims too, would that make me girly?
Okay okay I'll stop instigating
Seriously? How do you call yourself a gamer if you cannot tell the difference between a girl player and guy player online?
There are several tell/tale differences in the way most women type in chat that are extremely different from guys. Of course it would require you to have actually had some intelligent conversations with women OUTSIDE of gaming and that you did not just run up to a female toon and start acting like a complete and utter TUL.
I can usually tell within about 10-15 minutes of grouping with another person whether they are male / female. of course it does not mean I treat them any differently. If they suk they suk if they are fun to group with they are fun to group with. Either way it is more about the game play / cooperation than the sexual orientation.
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