Why do so many women play MMORPGs?
Literally aging gen-x-er moms. At least with WoW and WoW-types
Socializing. Drama. E-relationships.
http://www.destructoid.com/boy-s-club-why-don-t-more-women-play-eve-online--254710.phtml
Because most of them are casuals
>>319922816
they get attention
"Women".
+10 inherent charisma and much more dialogue options leading to bonus items
>>319922816
Being a housewife is like practically being a NEET anyway.
>>319923268
>Voice chat
They are.
I rarely met women in mmos I played. There was one in Tibia who seemed to live off drama, was always present on the world chat often discussing irl issues, made several threads a week on the forum bitching about people who disliked her and shit. A botter to boot, always went on about how botting is just being smart.
>>319922816
at least for dota, this poll isnt accurate.
mostly americans answered it while they are the smallest community of dota 2.
>>319922816
Invading male spaces for free things and attention whoring.
Because they get the Most amount of attention for the least amount of work they Have to put in for it
>>319922816
Fake
inb4 300 replies anyways
>>319922816
>lol
>being 10% female
kek, its literally the biggest normalfag game in existence. I know 12 cosplay whores irl who only play it so they have an excuse to dress up slutty at conventions.
I'm surprised destiny isn't on that list
>>319924897
Destiny still has a fanbase?
>>319924110
> A botter to boot, always went on about how botting is just being smart.
Well in fairness, it obviously is. If the game demands you do a repetitive task again and again, getting a robot to do it instead is the obvious smart thing to do.
Its the equivalent of ducktaping your analogue stick down and leaving if a game made you run endlessly for twenty minutes.
The even smarter thing is not to play repetitive MMOs. But that's a beast unknown to man.
>>319927492
The rules of most games don't explicitly state that such "botting" is forbidden. If you play a game with other people you should abide by that game's rules. It's like one football player out of the 22 on the pitch moves around in roller blades while the rest have to run and then goes all "what? I'm just being smart".
>>319928250
i don't think trying to use roller blades on grass is very smart
>>319923081
>boy-s-club
>tfw the url pisses you off
>>319922816
MMOs run on any toaster that's why
>>319926125
big one
sadly its the best nextgen scifi shooter
>>319922816
>sourcing a pastebin
oh my fuck this website.
This is practically literally source:my ass
>>319927492
>not playing the game is the smart thing to do
how to know you are playing a shit game
>Mexican gamergirl talking about her favorite vidya from childhood
>She says that her first platform was a PC
>MFW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l3oBQiDWEU
>>319922816
As someone who plays FFXIV, almost half of the people on my server are actual females. Which is surprising since I came from WoW where everyone was a neckbeard.
>>319922816
they're more social. mmos are social. though saying they play mmos might be a stretch: apparently they play WoW. could be because it's a phenomenon and as more social beings they're more into the idea of being part of a subculture. WoW = nerd culture.
just guessing here
It's like the games get better as more chicks like them, and yet also get worse as way too many chicks like them.
>>319928910
Kind of hard to imagine them paying a sub fee on a lark like that though
>>319922816
>It's free
>Doesn't require high end pcs
>you can pay to have access to things easier
Most women are smartphone-tier casuals so it makes sense entry-level games is what they play.
>>319923512
It's not "practically being a NEET," it is being a NEET. "Housewife" is not a job.
>>319929223
yeah that's true
>>319929297
Just goes to show that pandering to the wrong demographic helps nobody
not the devs nor players
>>319929297
CoC is way older than LoL
if girls do play games it stands to reason most arent literally 15 years old and probably overall play older series more than newer series
that being said girls dont actually play games
>>319929124
The sweet spot seems to be somewhere between 17% and 50%
I also read somewhere that girls tend to play RPGs with more roleplaying potential like New Vegas and Alpha Protocol. Could it be that more women in gaming is really the answer?
>>319929480
When has LoL pandered to women? It's teenage boy central.
>>319929681
>devs respond to women in gaming
>more male protagonists like snake and dante
>more dialogue driven rpgs
>more comfy/simulator games like animal crossing and the sims
If only.
>>319930148
We'll have to get more Dragon Ages and more Mass Effects before we get there. That's people think gaming women want.
>>319930302
the majority of girls i new growing up who played video games just thought they were fun and played all kinds of stuff, they did tend to avoid over the top gore games though
>>319922816
>easy repetitive rpg
it's easy enough for women.
>>319922816
Why do so many men have penises?
More social enviroment, free attention, free ego bost, free gifts and they can collect beta orbiters.
>>319922816
That shitty source, holy fuck.
>>319922816
For attention.
>>319928705
What's wrong with that? A lot of households had PCs and no consoles. It's not uncommon to find people who started gaming with Doom, Ultima, King's Quest, or whatever.
And how many of them are into anal? This is important, please respond.
>>319930302
A girl in eve of like the most fucked up thing to encounter. Usually is some manly Russian fleet commander.
>>319930343
The irony of course is that as those series went on they lost their female audience when they started focusing more on epic moments and gratuitous homosex instead of actual roleplaying potential.
>>319928679
>>319930851
It's a list of sources for each game
Dota 2 - http://infogr.am/dota-214355163121?src=web
EVE Online - https://archive.is/KToOK
Starcraft II - http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/443910-survey-says-1-looking-at-lol-sc2-viewer-data#
League of Legends - https://archive.is/um3Un
Mass Effect - https://archive.is/Worpt
GTA:V - https://archive.is/pjCaV
Runescape - https://archive.is/EviuO
Command & Conquer - https://archive.is/x6u5a
Pro Evolution Soccer - http://www.gamevisioneurope.eu/downloads/Pro_Evolution_Soccer_brand_map.pdf
Assassin's Creed - https://archive.is/zKCez
Call of Duty - https://archive.is/ohk6W
Devil May Cry - https://archive.is/KC6zn
Metal Gear Solid - https://archive.is/h1m2M
Resident Evil - https://archive.is/zjpmA
Gran Turismo - https://archive.is/oGsHN
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - https://archive.is/3ua78
Diablo - https://archive.is/D5vx4
LittleBigPlanet - https://archive.is/aeS0t
Minecraft - https://s3.amazonaws.com/CGA_Report/CGA_Market_Report_Fall2013.pdf
Final Fantasy - https://archive.is/JoiLQ
Pokémon - https://archive.is/fNzdL
World of Warcraft - https://archive.is/S6c6F
Mario Kart - https://archive.is/lCkpW
Super Mario Bros - https://archive.is/mstl7
Professor Layton - https://archive.is/ZpH61
Just Dance - https://archive.is/owxe6
Animal Crossing - https://archive.is/0VlsN
Candy Crush - https://s3.amazonaws.com/CGA_Report/CGA_Market_Report_Fall2013.pdf
The Sims - https://archive.is/pEuE5
Sing Star - https://archive.is/HLLkw
Hell of a lot easier than putting it on the picture, isn't it?
>>319922816
Social games. /thread
>>319922816
It's so they can follow-dance someone in Prifddinas grand exchange e-dating
>>319929429
you do more useful things than actually having a "job" at this point.
>>319922816
Surprised I don't see Zelda on that list.
Also kind of shocked that the list of female players is so low on LoL and Dota, considering how popular they are.
Also I have never come across or heard a single girl who likes the Souls game series.and it gets lonely and feels weird, like you're almost a freak for being one of the few who do.
>>319931191
Marketing people don't seem to realize that women like the same things men like, just take out the blatent pandering to dudes, and actually put some effort into marketing it. There you go.
>>319931632
A lot of the Souls fanbase is only in it for the dickwaving which tends to scare away women.
>>319931243
That's not what I meant - the data sources are useless for the most part.
>>319930343
>>319931191
When will the west take a lesson from Japan and learn that girls don't like that sort of stuff.
The fan service that women like the best isn't that homosex stuff from dragon age, it's just cute boys doing cute things.I'd like more of that anyways.
>>319931191
>>319931939
It seems like most of the dickwaving comes from the pvp/let's play scene but personally I find the gameplay to be very engaging and fun, and I do love the lore of DES, DAS and Bloodborne. Bloodborne especially.
>>319933004
Women also like cute boys doing cute things to each other. That's why fujoshi are so rampant now.
>>319934128
Dragon age doesn't have cute boys doing cute things to each other though. I doubt a fujoshi would like it very much, only those tumblr freaks like them.
>>319934128
But the fujoshi are a small subset, if you just make cute boys be cute and leave it at that, they'll all enjoy it, even if the fujoshi are left somewhat wanting.
>>319930148
On the flipside Warcraft and Starcraft lore have been completely destroyed by Blizzard trying to "adjust" to females in gaming.
They pretty much removed all the grit from their games and went with a feel good din du nuffin/stronk womminz approach, scrapping years of previous developments in favor of "new" angles and forcing in new "strong" female characters out of literally nowhere at times.
I know blizzard are just shitty writers but the fact is most game devs are shitty writers, so we will be getting more of that before we get anything remotely good.
>16% female
>Runescape
flash1: wave: FUCKING BUYING GF
