64% of Online Gamers are Female |
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According to a new study released earlier this week by Nielsen Entertainment in their third annual Active Gamer Benchmark Study, women make up 64% of North America's 117 million online gamers - and we aren't lying. The study did not reveal any particular genre or game type that were being played by women, but it is expected that online browser games such as Zuma on various flash websites made up a large proportion of the female online gamers. Although many traditional online games such as Halo or CounterStrike were primarily aimed towards males, the rise of RPGs and large-scale online titles such as World of Warcraft appear to have attracted more female gamers to the online scene.Another surprising result from the latest study is the amount of older gamers that are also interested in online gaming. As you'd expect, the teenage market dominates any other age group in numbers, but the study does say that more than 15 million gamers (about 8%) are actually at least 45 years old. The study involved 2,200 gamers described as "active" who were 13 years or older and owned a gaming device and played games at least once a week.
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WERE BEING OVER RUN!lol
gross people over 45 on wow thats kinda scary
omfg lol grills dont use compooters lol morans
Bull***** to the max, if the numbers of them b!tches r so big, then why has every single *****ing forum i'm a member of - have only males as members, and completely no girls, not even 1 *****.
Every Cs server i played on till today had COMPLETELY NO FEMALE PRESENCE.
It's more like men making hoax and getting their web identity as girls. Ofc that's it
^#3 ur an idiot.
But yeah, that isn't all too hard to believe. There are a ton of Flash and other browser based games that women like to play. And it is true that many women play RPGs and MMORPGs. But what I am thinking is if the people doing the study actually found out if the people playing were female, or if they just had female characters. WoW for instance, has tons of female characters that are actively played every week. But, many of these female characters are actually male.
lots of guys like to pretend to be girls ... pick female characters so that is an error in the survey .... i mean comon even i do it ... just for fun though
there ar no girls on teh interwub
indeed. 64% PRETEND to be female. because we all clearly know there is no such thing as girls
here, proof if you do not believe me:
http://www.whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d=girls
It's totally true, but it is those chicks playing the stupid puzzle games and card games etc on the web. My GF plays 'em constantly, all her friends play 'em and tons of other girls I know play 'em now and again, which would technically allow them to check the "I play online games" box.
They really should have released the genre info as well...
ya right girls playing rpg and mmorpg thats some bs
It's totally true, but it is those chicks playing the stupid puzzle games and card games etc on the web. My GF plays 'em constantly, all her friends play 'em and tons of other girls I know play 'em now and again, which would technically allow them to check the "I play online games" box.
They really should have released the genre info as well...
Bull*****, but lol @ #11
ive heard this story before soemwhere and i think its a mistake.
imo the study was looking at active gamers and casual gamers. to be an active gamer u had to play a certain amount of hours a week.
gils made up 64 % of casual gamers not of overall gamers.
although thats what i remember i could be wrong but i doubt it.
I am a female gamer, I'm 41 (What's gross about being over 45?) I play WoW and Guild Wars. I agree though, there are not that many real females playing these games. Most of those (64%) are probably playing neopets and yahoo games online.
Kim
64%... what utter rubbish.
More like 64% of online games have female characters with male players at the keyboard.
Why pick a picture of a Warlock's Succubus who can only be female?
LawL so fake. More like 64% play as girls. amirite?
I think it is great that there are so many female gamers, on-line or otherwise, I'd love to see more women getting into games.
My girlfriend loves playing Animal Crossing: Wild World, and enjoys visiting other towns via WFC, I'm not sure if this qualifies as on-line play because it's basically just walking around aimlessly in another person's town, but still.
I agree though that many female characters in games are played by males, I myself had two female characters in Flyff (a free MMORPG), I simply liked that way the female characters looked better than the male characters which looked like punks.
Anyway, good to know they are out there.
1. I know of many couples, married and other, that play online as a team; especially MMORPG's.
2. From reading the above notes, I'm guessing that some of the column readers are probably up past their bedtimes and should be studying grammar and spelling instead of commenting while still stuck in their pre-adolescent text-messaging stereotypes.
3. I think there are quite a few women that play online who don't identify themselves as such in the games because of "men" asking for on-line dates. Seriously, that just gets annoying.
bull freaking crap.
more like half of them are g.i.r.l. guys in real life. girls can't play games or drive cars they belong in the kitchen and the laundry rooms.
wtf im not reading that
Stop posting those long ass essays. No one ain't gonna read that *****.
Now, the truth: Girls play, but will only reveal themselves to the Players, and not those pervert losers.
Fl0w is coming as pack-in free with all PS3 consoles?
Where did you hear that?
BTW, in relevent matters, I think can understand girls playing "online" games, ie puzzle games or tetris-esque games (yeah I know, EVERY girl plays tetris. It's like cleaning and organizing, video-game style, I swear).
Ok, nm, I guess all speculation points to fl0w being a hub release. Even Jenova Chen replies by saying "We are very excited" so I can only interpret that as unofficial confirmation.
@ 19
They don't look like punks... they look emo.
98% of my brain just doesn't give a flying F|_|CK anymore!!!!!
Female gamers are everywhere, same as Male gamers. GET OVER IT!
Have you stopped to think that a stereyotype exsits and is still hugely strong because of retarded articles like this that clutter the web with the same head line "OMG GURLS PLAY GAMEZZZ!!!!!"
??? Huh??
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lol,im a girl and i know plenty of other females who play MMORPGs but we no where near out populate the male population, its like every 1 girl to 100 guys. The sad thing is that there are some creeps who pretend to be female, male players then gain further more disbelief that the females who claim to be girls are just men, the actual girls then get called a bunch of homophobic names and uttering a swear word is substanial evidence to pin you as an old hairy fat *****er of a man. Ive actually started telling other players that im a guy so i can *****ing swear as much as i *****ing like dudes. Why the ***** should i have to act like a giggling mess, whos out there just to make the wow male population cream their pants? hehe? Get *****ing real im on that game to kill *****!