They make more money when they roll things out slowly. When everything is there at one time, people cherrypick, then wait for new stuff. It’s a bigger week 1 sure, but it’s a less week 2, 3, 4 and every other week till the history of time. As a gamer, i’d like more games. But businesswise? That makes no sense at…

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Nope. Study specifically points out that “69% Match 3" means that of Match 3 gamers, 69% of them are women. It does NOT mean that 69% of women gamers play Match 3 games. So your “most women play casual games” is not what this says at all.

Me too! Which is why it is so unlikely. Nintendo does two things regularly.

There are certainly physical differences between men and women but none of those things factor into game preferences. Having a uterus does not cause someone to shy away from shooters any more than having a penis prevents someone from enjoying color-matching games.

It’s entirely a social construct. Before the crash of 83 video games were marketed to both men and women. Afterwords when it was marketed as a toy, they just decided to market it for boys since toys were divided into male and female toys. The fact that you think there’s biologically reason for men preferring video…

I will say, as a female gamer, who has enjoyed the occasional match 3 and other causal games, is that one of the reasons I like them is because they come a wide variety of styles, with a wide variety of women’s roles. Which means the ones featuring a ton of scantily clad women don’t bother me at all.

As a woman, the game that sucked me back into RPGs was the Souls series.

One concrete example of that hostility: a game store.

Just think about how many women love Overwatch, which boasts a high male/female playable character ratio...

So how long do you think we have before we hear grumblings about censorship?

I’m at the point where I’m no longer watching promo footage of BOTW because I still want to be surprised when I play it. That said, Calamity Ganon makes me think of Calamity Jane, and all I want is a rootin’ tootin’ gunslinging female Ganon as the villain.

The existential horror of being a kid now

Ridiculous.

I had a female character with me for quite a few hours and the dynamics were exactly the same. I have many female friends I interact with in exactly the same way as I do with my male friends. This is such a weird concept to me, that sex alone changes the nature of a friendship somehow.

It doesn’t have to be a part of it, but it *is* part of it. When male (and even female) players shit-talk one another, the language is remarkably gendered: competitors are called pussies, winning is often referred to as raping another player, and any number of comments are made about the sexual behavior of…

8 months later and the mansplaining of feminism still makes me

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Thank you. Thank you. THANK YOU.

Love when people desperately try to defend Sniper Quiet’s design. It’s blatant sexual objectification, people - especially when she’s featured rolling around in the rain and taking a shower. Why people think a hack like Kojima can get away with such garbage is beyond me.