This BBC Have Your Say piece rather answers the question (you don’t need to read the responses, just the respondents’ names…)
This BBC Have Your Say piece rather answers the question (you don’t need to read the responses, just the respondents’ names…)
I thought that, for people who "play computer games", it was getting oddly close to a 50% split, men to women. Though also, I think women mainly play on-line, Yahoo! like games, while men are happy to piss away their lives infront of an Xbox. The exceptions are games like The Sims, which I think might even have slightly more women than men playing…
But do read the comment by the only women commentator – who is, erm, reporting what her son thinks.
The Sims must be the most pointless game ever. It’s novel at first, but then you realise you’re spending all your time doing boring chores and and it’s just like real life but more limited.
Kang, did you miss the woman who said: I am a 48 year old female and have been playing these games for at least 10 years. Sexism stinks.? :)
I like games where you build things – Civilization, Caesar 3 etc., rather games with more obvious violence and competition. If the stereotype is that women like to work in co-operation with others and men prefer competition, then I guess I fulfil it in my choice of game. Re The Sims though, I agree with Chris.
At end of the day, they’re all just slightly different algorithms, with a slightly different front-ends …
Ah, Lynn, Emma and Naomi are new additions since I put the piece up (albeit welcome ones). And yes, the Sims is uber-tedious.
(albeit welcome ones)
Glad to see you qualifying your statement to avoid the rabid fury of hordes of game-playing feminists descending on you :). Possibly the BBC have belatedly added them for exactly that reason …