Study Finds Girl Gamers Are Seriously Hardcore

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It gets even worse:

[small]Picspam is truth![/small]
Actually I find this quite believable, going through the photo submissions for the Warcraft Mosaic [http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/wowanniversary/battlecry/](Actually the mosaic would also seem to support the growth of casual baby gamers as well). And the female population of FPS players is growing as well. I say embrace the change! Or as Graham would say: Hug it!
 

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Sci-Fi luver437 said:
It's MMORPGS's. Hardly hardcore.



Now this is hardcore.

OT: Get a better base for this outrageous claim
It don't matter if you are male or female, you would have to sacrifice everything including the right to breathe to afford that rig. But as I look at that, I think to myself how much I would OWN on X-Wing Alliance and Tie Fighter with that setup.
 

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I don't play everquest....but I can say that I play more hours of games than my bf a week...which he does not know haha.....I can get pretty determined.
 

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Silva said:
Cyberjester said:
o.0

Since when did this become a feminist argument?

*shakes head* Trolls..
Excuse me, I'm not trolling, I'm seriously considering the argument from the way the article was written. The joke about "giving them the vote" at the end, and the idea of being "more hardcore" as addressed in the headline and bolded first line, each suggest a success for feminism in gaming, and the evolution of female gamers from casual to hardcore (which is presumably meant to be considered a positive thing). But it is too early to celebrate that, which is what I'm pointing out.
Fair enough. It just looked overboard, like most feminist trolls I've seen. And I'd missed those subtle anti-female hints. You were definitely right. Lets burn The Escapist servers for daring to host such an inflammatory and sexist article!

quiet_samurai said:
Labyrinth said:
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DC1 said:
It's nice to know that the second a stereotypically 'unattractive' female gamer is put up everyone yells and screams in horror whether they themselves are the pinnacle of sexy or otherwise. Here's the deal. We're not in gaming to be your eye candy and you have no right to flame us, troll us or otherwise just because we're females, attractive or otherwise. How the fuck would you feel to have a bunch of people saying shit like that about you?

Grow up and be a little more considerate.
It's a fact of human life and nature to find another person attractie or unattractive, shutting it off is impossible. Even though voicing it may be a little inconsiderate, it has nothing to do with ones maturity level. Boys especially are always going to be looking for what they find attractive in a female no matter if she's a gamer or not, it isn't meant to piss you off or de-humanize you, it's just the natural order of things...accept it. Guys are in a constant state of arousal all the time, not full on, but they are always in the mode. Why do you think that happily married men will still turn their heads if a good looking woman walks by? They can't help it, and no amount of wishing or bashing on them will change that.... ever.
I'm calling sexist on that one. There's quite a few of us who have goals in life greater than fking every partially hot woman we come across.

I'll agree that there's quite a few vocal ones in gaming who are immature rtards, but to say that everyone is like that is rather illogical. 1+1 = 2, therefore everything = 2? Not really..
 

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Mazty said:
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Hum, I'd like to see a survey of more than just one game, and also where people are from, as that may have a large impact on results. Out of 4 female gamers I know, only one of them is a hardcore gamer, two of them (including the hardcore gamer) aren't socially normal, and the other two are are pretty good looking (just to break the sterotype).
Labyrinth said:
Singularly Datarific said:
Archemetis said:
wilted_orchid said:
ejb626 said:
Ham_authority95 said:

It's nice to know that the second a stereotypically 'unattractive' female gamer is put up everyone yells and screams in horror whether they themselves are the pinnacle of sexy or otherwise. Here's the deal. We're not in gaming to be your eye candy and you have no right to flame us, troll us or otherwise just because we're females, attractive or otherwise. How the fuck would you feel to have a bunch of people saying shit like that about you?

Grow up and be a little more considerate.
If I was a female gamer, I'd just have to consider the irony that the average male gamer (in my experience) is over weight, unattractive and socially inept. So for a bunch of potentially sweaty fat-balls to be joking over female gamers, got to see the humour in that.
o.0 Overweight? What nerds do you know? All the ones I know (including myself) can't put on weight if we try. And I have. =P We're more the type that can game all day and eat nothing but junk, then look better than someone who goes to the gym every morning. Irony.. It's awesome. On the plus side, we always fit into a suit. :D
True, a lot of nerds I know are skinny, but bullshit you look better than someone who goes to the gym every morning. I used to have the problem that I couldn't put on weight, so I go to the gym 3 days a week and I've put on a good stone of muscle, resulting in becoming broader, pecks etc. So yeah, the skinny gamers could put on weight and look better if they went to a gym, don't kid yourself there. And again, looking like a half starved animal is just more reason for chicks to rip the piss out of male gamers slagging them off.
rofl. It's not half starved animal although I used to get comments like that when I was younger.

Better than gym is Tae Kwon Doe, Soccer, Fencing. With running and biking whenever I'm bored. About to take up surfing, after a winter indoors, the tan is down to radiation from computer screen only. All of which are technically still in nerd territory apparently.. And waaaaaaaay more fun than lifting weights for hours on end. Bike > Exercise Bike always.

Gym means there's only 1 fashion style you can go for and you have that fake look to you. Well muscled and slim means you can go for anything and look great. Therefore I beat gym people. Although.. I'm starting to think I'm a freak compared to most people..

Although this is the internet. I could be a 5 headed, 20 tentacled octopus biased against gym people for all you know..
 

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Even if woman are more hardcore aren't they still a bit outnumbered by men in games? (cf. There are no girls on the Internet)

Still a surprising fact, proves that games are accessible and equal to everyone :D.
 

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Cyberjester said:
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I'm calling sexist on that one. There's quite a few of us who have goals in life greater than fking every partially hot woman we come across.
Nowhere in my post did I say that they did.

Cyberjester said:
I'll agree that there's quite a few vocal ones in gaming who are immature rtards, but to say that everyone is like that is rather illogical. 1+1 = 2, therefore everything = 2? Not really..
Again, I never said everyone, as in every single male human on the planet. There are accceptions for many different reasons why many are not like that. Or they are and just suppress it for same reason. I was talking about most everyday guys.
 

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Mazty said:
Cyberjester said:
Mazty said:
Cyberjester said:
Mazty said:
Hum, I'd like to see a survey of more than just one game, and also where people are from, as that may have a large impact on results. Out of 4 female gamers I know, only one of them is a hardcore gamer, two of them (including the hardcore gamer) aren't socially normal, and the other two are are pretty good looking (just to break the sterotype).
Labyrinth said:
Singularly Datarific said:
Archemetis said:
wilted_orchid said:
ejb626 said:
Ham_authority95 said:

It's nice to know that the second a stereotypically 'unattractive' female gamer is put up everyone yells and screams in horror whether they themselves are the pinnacle of sexy or otherwise. Here's the deal. We're not in gaming to be your eye candy and you have no right to flame us, troll us or otherwise just because we're females, attractive or otherwise. How the fuck would you feel to have a bunch of people saying shit like that about you?

Grow up and be a little more considerate.
If I was a female gamer, I'd just have to consider the irony that the average male gamer (in my experience) is over weight, unattractive and socially inept. So for a bunch of potentially sweaty fat-balls to be joking over female gamers, got to see the humour in that.
o.0 Overweight? What nerds do you know? All the ones I know (including myself) can't put on weight if we try. And I have. =P We're more the type that can game all day and eat nothing but junk, then look better than someone who goes to the gym every morning. Irony.. It's awesome. On the plus side, we always fit into a suit. :D
True, a lot of nerds I know are skinny, but bullshit you look better than someone who goes to the gym every morning. I used to have the problem that I couldn't put on weight, so I go to the gym 3 days a week and I've put on a good stone of muscle, resulting in becoming broader, pecks etc. So yeah, the skinny gamers could put on weight and look better if they went to a gym, don't kid yourself there. And again, looking like a half starved animal is just more reason for chicks to rip the piss out of male gamers slagging them off.
rofl. It's not half starved animal although I used to get comments like that when I was younger.

Better than gym is Tae Kwon Doe, Soccer, Fencing. With running and biking whenever I'm bored. About to take up surfing, after a winter indoors, the tan is down to radiation from computer screen only. All of which are technically still in nerd territory apparently.. And waaaaaaaay more fun than lifting weights for hours on end. Bike > Exercise Bike always.

Gym means there's only 1 fashion style you can go for and you have that fake look to you. Well muscled and slim means you can go for anything and look great. Therefore I beat gym people. Although.. I'm starting to think I'm a freak compared to most people..

Although this is the internet. I could be a 5 headed, 20 tentacled octopus biased against gym people for all you know..
Oh dear...
Firstly, just cardio is not better than cardio and weight training. That thought is simply bizarre. Secondly, all that is hardly "the type that can game all day and eat nothing but junk, then look better than someone who goes to the gym every morning" is it now?
The fake look? Right, clearly you have never been to a gym as you think everyone is throwing down steroids like pez. Go for anything? What the hell are you on about? If you go to the gym, you can still be slim and muscled, but even better, is to look a bit bigger and muscled, as being slim usually means not very well toned (broadness etc).
Stop living in your own world kid, you do not beat gym guys, you just look like another skinny guy that does some sport, not a guy that bust his balls to look much better:

That's gym work there, not just cardio, and I think the people that count (attractive women) think it looks a whole lot better.
Nah, all gym people I know are obsessed with getting big. Their reflexes are lame, they can't run for any decent length of time, their muscles will fail under a reasonable test (give them a pair of weights to carry on said run), but they "look good". Fake. All gym rats I've ever seen are like that. Self improvement = obsessed with image = eventual decline into fake.

Face is different, and as I said, I've missed my usual tanning months for this year. But apart from that, yes that is what I'm like. Original point is gone though, my new one is that you can do that without going to the gym.



Hail from the tank. =P
 

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quiet_samurai said:
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I'm calling sexist on that one. There's quite a few of us who have goals in life greater than fking every partially hot woman we come across.
Nowhere in my post did I say that they did.

Cyberjester said:
I'll agree that there's quite a few vocal ones in gaming who are immature rtards, but to say that everyone is like that is rather illogical. 1+1 = 2, therefore everything = 2? Not really..
Again, I never said everyone, as in every single male human on the planet. There are accceptions for many different reasons why many are not like that. Or they are and just suppress it for same reason. I was talking about most everyday guys.
Fair enough then. You just looked like you were generalizing, and given the feminist comments this thread has attracted, it was annoying.
 

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While this is an interesting survey, it's hardly fair to come to a conclusion on the entire gaming community based on one game. I've never played everquest, mostly cause I hate paying for my MMO's, so I'm one statistic that was left out of the surveys. I'm a male, hardcore, gamer. And, running my own quick survey, I come up with one hardcore gamer who's female, and at least six male gamers.
 

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Cyberjester said:
quiet_samurai said:
Cyberjester said:
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I'm calling sexist on that one. There's quite a few of us who have goals in life greater than fking every partially hot woman we come across.
Nowhere in my post did I say that they did.

Cyberjester said:
I'll agree that there's quite a few vocal ones in gaming who are immature rtards, but to say that everyone is like that is rather illogical. 1+1 = 2, therefore everything = 2? Not really..
Again, I never said everyone, as in every single male human on the planet. There are accceptions for many different reasons why many are not like that. Or they are and just suppress it for same reason. I was talking about most everyday guys.
Fair enough then. You just looked like you were generalizing, and given the feminist comments this thread has attracted, it was annoying.
Lol, you took my comments for a feminist huh? Funny, because I was actually trying to make a very non feminist point. Maybe I need to work on making a point better...
 

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Fun and I am not surprised either. The women I know, besides my wife, tend to have a lot more of an attention span than the guys I know. When they like something, they pour a lot of themselves into it.
 

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quiet_samurai said:
Cyberjester said:
quiet_samurai said:
Cyberjester said:
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I'm calling sexist on that one. There's quite a few of us who have goals in life greater than fking every partially hot woman we come across.
Nowhere in my post did I say that they did.

Cyberjester said:
I'll agree that there's quite a few vocal ones in gaming who are immature rtards, but to say that everyone is like that is rather illogical. 1+1 = 2, therefore everything = 2? Not really..
Again, I never said everyone, as in every single male human on the planet. There are accceptions for many different reasons why many are not like that. Or they are and just suppress it for same reason. I was talking about most everyday guys.
Fair enough then. You just looked like you were generalizing, and given the feminist comments this thread has attracted, it was annoying.
Lol, you took my comments for a feminist huh? Funny, because I was actually trying to make a very non feminist point. Maybe I need to work on making a point better...
Haha. It could just be that your post was in the middle of some fairly feminist posts, giving it the wrong environment and context.
 

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samsonguy920 said:
Sci-Fi luver437 said:
It's MMORPGS's. Hardly hardcore.



Now this is hardcore.

OT: Get a better base for this outrageous claim
It don't matter if you are male or female, you would have to sacrifice everything including the right to breathe to afford that rig. But as I look at that, I think to myself how much I would OWN on X-Wing Alliance and Tie Fighter with that setup.
Yeah, I was researching in Korean Culture one day and since gaming was part of it I searched it on Google Images and poof I found this master set-up.
 

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Sci-Fi luver437 said:


Now this is hardcore.
I want that setup. Nao.

Well, except for the joysticks/flight yokes. No one's made a decent flight sim since TIE Fighter.
 

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MMORPGs

Hardcore gamers

I lol'd
/pulls out the snipersaw

/kills SwmnNE1

there are only 2 games which take more dedication then MMOs.

Magic the Gathering, and Starcraft.

everything else is for pussies