Comments on: Where the Women Aren’t http://gigaom.com/2006/10/06/where-the-women-arent/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:25:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: GigaOM Game Business & its crisis of Attention « http://gigaom.com/2006/10/06/where-the-women-arent/#comment-125496 Mon, 04 Jun 2007 06:28:21 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/where-the-women-arent/#comment-125496 [...] like New Grounds and MiniClip rank in Alexa’s top 1000, attracting millions of casual players, especially women. Few have any relation to the game industry. Among the only fantasy MMOs to succeed post-WoW is the [...]

]]> By: broadstuff http://gigaom.com/2006/10/06/where-the-women-arent/#comment-125495 Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:17:32 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/where-the-women-arent/#comment-125495 Gaming 2.0…

Interesting post on GigaOm about women gamers. Neilsen has a new study on gaming demographics (see here).

According to Neilsen, ratios are:

  • 2 to 1: ratio of men to women in overall gaming universe.
  • 56%: percentage of active gamers who play …
]]> By: jane http://gigaom.com/2006/10/06/where-the-women-arent/#comment-125494 Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:50:29 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/where-the-women-arent/#comment-125494 actually, mithras, research suggests that given the choice of male vs. female avatar, female players overwhelmingly choose the female avatar.

]]> By: Jesse Kopelman http://gigaom.com/2006/10/06/where-the-women-arent/#comment-125493 Mon, 09 Oct 2006 23:04:37 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/where-the-women-arent/#comment-125493 “Who was it that said “Hell is other people”?”

Sartre.

]]> By: alan patrick http://gigaom.com/2006/10/06/where-the-women-arent/#comment-125492 Sat, 07 Oct 2006 21:00:05 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/where-the-women-arent/#comment-125492 I’m not sure its just computer games, I don’t think many women play chess in tournaments for eg…and yet many will happily play backgammon or somesuch socially. Similarly…few in WoW yet many play D&D.

Hmmmmm…Games + Social Networks = Gaming 2.0?

]]> By: Erik http://gigaom.com/2006/10/06/where-the-women-arent/#comment-125491 Sat, 07 Oct 2006 15:48:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/where-the-women-arent/#comment-125491 Wagner James Au…please take your meds.

]]> By: Adam Lindsay http://gigaom.com/2006/10/06/where-the-women-arent/#comment-125490 Sat, 07 Oct 2006 12:08:57 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/where-the-women-arent/#comment-125490 I think it is the same reason that the hottest girls go to gay clubs. They simply don’t want the attention of being hit on. The stigma is that gaming is for men. Entering into a game such as WoW could be intimidating. If gaming is suppose to be about a fantasy world or an escape from reality, then the last thing they(girls) want is a bunch of geeky computer gamers drooling over the fact that there is a girl playing.

I personally don’t game much, but I see my gf jumping on Y! all the time to play Eucre or other such games.

]]> By: mithras the prophet http://gigaom.com/2006/10/06/where-the-women-arent/#comment-125489 Sat, 07 Oct 2006 02:22:25 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/where-the-women-arent/#comment-125489 Wouldn’t you have to know what proportion of female gamers choose female and male avatars to estimate what proportion of female avatars are from male players? Conceivably (though doubtfully), all of the female players could be using male avatars, perhaps to avoid unwanted attention, and hence 100% of female avatars could be from male players. The true figure is presumably somewhere between that and the 50% you cite.

]]> By: Richard http://gigaom.com/2006/10/06/where-the-women-arent/#comment-125488 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 23:38:14 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/where-the-women-arent/#comment-125488 My wife and I recently had a discussion over dinner about “girls & games”. She thinks casual games are popular with women because they leave enough “mental space” to do other stuff while playing, like talking on the phone.

She said that for her, gaming competes with important things like maintaining and building relationships with the folks around her. (Her girlfriends are non-gamers, so no, she can’t build relationships with them through games.)

She thinks that a game that could help her girlfriends find quality men (a dating simulator?) might be popular. :-)

]]> By: Elisa Camahort http://gigaom.com/2006/10/06/where-the-women-arent/#comment-125487 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 22:24:02 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/where-the-women-arent/#comment-125487 I have done my time playing both simple PC games like Bejeweled, Taipei, Free Cell, etc. etc. etc And my time spent playing console games, from Crash Bandicoot version 1-4 to Space Channel 9.

When I watch my S.O. play WoW or Halo online it doesn’t appeal to me at all. Why?

All the lame name-calling and way immature interaction between the folks playing. Who was it that said “Hell is other people”?

And all the aimless running, running, running. And he’s a level 60 player, so it’s not like he sux at it or anything. But man, there seems to be a lot of wasted time playing that game.

That’s just me :)

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