VE Report: Girls Do It Online

Kalah · Unread postby **Kalah** » 08 Oct 2006, 20:38

<a href="/http://ve3d.ign.com/#737846">Voodoo Extreme</a> report that, according to a recent study, about 2/3rds of all U.S. online gamers are female, though the boys still hold a 2-1 margin as far as gaming overall in concerned:

<centre>The research found that among the roughly 117 million Active Gamers in the U.S. in 2006, more than half (56%) play games online, and that 64% of all online gamers are women.</centre>

Girls it seems are social beings, travelling into cyberspace to entertain themselves and others by interacting directly with other human gamers, whereas boys lock the doors, draw the blinds and shut the lights off to enter a world of solitary gaming. In other words, we're anti-socials, they hook up.

Nah, I'm kidding - if any of our readers are parents, this study seems to confirm what many others have done already: gaming (online and other) is very much a social experience:

<centre>Active Gamers spend upwards of 5 hours a week playing games socially, led by teenagers who are socially involved in gaming about 7 hours per week.</centre>

If you would like to take a look at the original page visit this link:
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ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 08 Oct 2006, 20:55

Kalah wrote:"The research found that among the roughly 117 million Active Gamers in the U.S. in 2006, more than half (56%) play games online, and that 64% of all online gamers are women."

So MMORPG's are all their fault too. Figures.

Psychobabble · Unread postby **Psychobabble** » 08 Oct 2006, 23:12

I think you'll find the figures include a lot of casual games, eg. msn/XP games.

Kareeah Indaga · Unread postby **Kareeah Indaga** » 08 Oct 2006, 23:14

”Girls it seems are social beings”

We are??? (;))

Guess I get to be the odd one out then.

Omega_Destroyer · Unread postby **Omega_Destroyer** » 09 Oct 2006, 00:00

I'm sorry, I just don't believe it.

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 09 Oct 2006, 00:09

Kareeah Indaga wrote:"Guess I get to be the odd one out then."

So you're the one that confirms the rule. Been wandering where you are.

Psychobabble · Unread postby **Psychobabble** » 09 Oct 2006, 03:49

Omega_Destroyer wrote:I'm sorry, I just don't believe it.

If you have XP, go start/programs/games and look at all the ones with "internet" in front of them and then go into the latest version of msn and look at the list of games there. They, along with other casual (and usually free) games, make up the vast majority of games played online. And they tend to be played more by females.

Lord_Haart · Unread postby **Lord_Haart** » 09 Oct 2006, 03:59

This must be wrong. 56% * 64% = 35.8% of gamers are females who play online.

It says there are more than twice as many guys as there are girls, so this means there's over %107 of people.

Doesn't add up right.

I'd agree that more than half of online players play female characters, (when available) though.

DaemianLucifer · Unread postby **DaemianLucifer** » 09 Oct 2006, 04:26

Lord_Haart wrote:This must be wrong. 56% * 64% = 35.8% of gamers are females who play online.

It says there are more than twice as many guys as there are girls, so this means there's over %107 of people.

Doesn't add up right.

Oh come on,like anyone expects statistics to be consistent.

Lord_Haart wrote:
I'd agree that more than half of online players play female characters, (when available) though.

Indeed

Mytical · Unread postby **Mytical** » 09 Oct 2006, 04:32

Hmm social..check, like games online...check, does this mean I am an example of this? Oh shoot, got to change, I like being the exception not the rule

. Well all I can say is this actually makes my day. Go girls

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Shmok · Unread postby **Shmok** » 09 Oct 2006, 07:24

Nice survey..but it did it or did it not map the type of games to each group ?

the fantasy i think would be more the territory of girls and action/combat would be the guys terf.

Btw im a heavy gamer in BF2 . anyone else here ?

[T]osHiro · Unread postby **[T]osHiro** » 09 Oct 2006, 08:13

Interesting. Tis is quite the opposite in my country.. I hope the survey doesn't have its sources from the characters played in online games. There are more female characters in MMORPG, but that doesn't mean more girls are playing it.

Sherpa · Unread postby **Sherpa** » 09 Oct 2006, 09:16

MMORPG and Sims effect...

vulnevia · Unread postby **vulnevia** » 09 Oct 2006, 09:49

bah! there's no girls on the internet! we're a myth! i mean, it's a myth! a myth i tell you!!

Mytical · Unread postby **Mytical** » 09 Oct 2006, 09:50

I like that

. Kudos to you

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 09 Oct 2006, 11:05

Lord_Haart wrote: It says there are more than twice as many guys as there are girls, so this means there's over %107 of people.

Ever heard of aproximations?! And embelishment? 1,7-1 doesn't look as good as 2-1.

Lady Farquad · Unread postby **Lady Farquad** » 09 Oct 2006, 14:58

They don't mention what kind of on line games girls play the most... My sis spends hours dealing with these multi colored little balls...

Fnord · Unread postby **Fnord** » 09 Oct 2006, 16:51

"bah! there's no girls on the internet! we're a myth! i mean, it's a myth! a myth i tell you!!"

Of course you're a myth. That's because you're female. If you were male, you'd be a mythter.

Campaigner · Unread postby **Campaigner** » 10 Oct 2006, 00:25

I hate it how people report things and don't make a difference on simple msn/WinXP games and RTS/FPS/MMORPG ones. Like there's any women at all in competetive circles that aren't Korean....

And I don't count msn/WinXP games as "games" since "games" in my mind are challenges of life and death like RTS and FPS. Friggin minesweeper don't count....

Funny how there are quite some women in here

How old are you and what type of games do you like? And are you playing competetively?

Competetively means playing to win.

p.s: How many here except me thought of something different than games when they saw the topic title??

soupnazii · Unread postby **soupnazii** » 10 Oct 2006, 00:39

i did

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