Comments | thedeadqueen: Girl Gamers Spend More Time Online Than Guys (Gasp!)

thedeadqueen

Girl Gamers Spend More Time Online Than Guys (Gasp!)

Dec 23, 2009 13:49

Time to rethink your stereotypes about gamers--or at least MMO players. Most of them aren't 14 year old boys. In fact, in a survey of Everquest II players, the average age of gamers was 31--and playing time actually increased with age. Women spent more hours online than men (29 to 25 hours/week), and the top women players spent more hours online ( Read more... )

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Notes on my own gaming experience napthia9 December 31 2009, 21:12:43 UTC

I wonder if this counted online poker games or stupid flash games. I've been looking at my brother's game collection, and he's moved from WoW to more FPS online games, which I have never played because my mother was so adamant about them being bad for you so I never learned. Also, I don't think games are fun to play if you don't have friends with you, and a lot of the FPS or strategy games have uber-macho marketing plans and themes. Therefore the most tempting FPS games to me are either associated with characters I already like (Batman: Arkham Asylum) or are MEGA popular and fairly generic (Left For Dead), rather that the Call of Duty or Counterstrike serious. Plus a lot of games I'm interested in are horror games, which I'm too scared to play.

What do you think?

Re: Notes on my own gaming experience thedeadqueen January 2 2010, 01:07:12 UTC

Sample was an MMORPG, which probably explains the results. But old-school Mario-type games, Tetris/puzzle games and the like would probably have a lot of girl players, too.

Re: Notes on my own gaming experience napthia9 January 2 2010, 03:31:57 UTC

Age range for those games would probably also change.

Re: Notes on my own gaming experience thedeadqueen January 30 2010, 04:57:17 UTC

Judging by the girls I know at university, there'd be a lot of college students.

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cereus_sphinx December 1 2010, 19:00:42 UTC

"Like men, women like beating up monsters. Even more than men, women like the social and roleplaying aspects of massively multiplayer games."

Actually, most gamer guys I know are very into the social aspect of the MMORPGs. It's a time to spend hours shooting their mouths off in voice chat (vent or steam). That's why I've become more and more baffled by "games=antisocial". Sometimes I think the guys=loners stereotype is so embedded in our culture that people don't see exceptions when they're right under their noses. Also, it seems to necessitate "excuses" for being outright social.