Me and a buddy played MW2 when it came out and met a girl who turned out to live close by. They dated for a while, and that was the only time I saw someone hook up by playing games.
If an only stand playing with a girl if the people I am playing with are very mature. Otherwise the focus turns from the game to trying to impress the girl. Come on guys, she isn't playing video games to look for a boyfriend
Religion, has actually convinced people, that there's an invisible man, living in the sky, who watches everything you do every minute of the day, and the invisible man has a special list. Of 10 things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do ANY of these ten things he has a special place, full of fire, and smoke, and burning, and torture, and will send you there to suffer and choke and scream for all of eternity... But he still loves you.
My best friend in the whole world plays minecraft almost 24/7, and last time i checked, she was a girl. and i know about 2 of her friends who are also girls play minecraft as well.
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Seriously, it's not just Minecraft -- there are a lot of female players (not just girls but grown women) who are very, very reticent to admit they're female. They use male avatars, don't talk about stereotypical female interests (e.g., if they like both knitting and watching sports, they talk about their team, not their patterns), and make excuses for why they don't talk or sound odd on Vent/TS/whatever. I've met a few IRL who have never admitted they were female in games. (I even knew one -- yes, IRL -- who had voice-changing software)
Some -- a lot -- want to avoid the weirdos, stalkers, and basement dwellers who think they're God's gift to women, and are probably not even the right species. Some of those people are just plain scary, some are merely annoying, but all are better off not in someone's life. They don't want to hear "r u hot irl?" from every juvenile wanker out there. Some don't want to be stereotyped -- they're gamers, not "female gamers", and want to judged on what they can do, not what kind of plumbing they have. And a lot want to be just another gamer, no different from anybody else -- except that "anybody else" is, by default, male.
I'd have to guess that the people who insist on prettyprettyprincess skins for Minecraft are probably a small percentage of the total number of female players out there. And at least a few of the overtly, even ostentatiously, female are not actually female at all -- they're using a female persona to be able to get away with trolling and griefing longer, because they can be "a girl" and get away with things their male equivalent couldn't.
People play Minecraft. Some of those people pee sitting down instead of standing up. Unless that matters to you (in which case I really don't want to know about it) nothing else should. They're people, they're gamers, and they play Minecraft. Y'know, kind of like you.
I'm female, play minecraft and other video games and I don't get an unusual amount of friend requests or have guys hitting on me when I play online. Am I doing something wrong?
And just to be clear. This is not an invitation to send me friend requests so you can hit on me
A majority of the gamers in my family are female. Most play MC on various platforms. My eldest niece is kind of scary when she plays any FPS and my son freely admits he won't play online FPS without his cousin or myself taking point. ;-) Everything gets played here from Hexxit to all the Fables to Elder Scrolls titles to FPS to sandbox games like Minecraft. Well, everything but those nasty girlie-girl games that even my seven-year-old niece says are "so baby-ish".
Thing is, i am one of those online horror stories other women have heard about. The experience made me sketchy about allowing my girls or myself admit our gender online. It's made us cautious, but maybe that caution isn't all bad either.
Ironically, my son and niece beat the crap out of a couple kids from their school in HALO and they had their sisters threaten to beat her up if "she didn't quit pretending to play HALO", but no one ever said anything to my son. I don't know how to change the stereotype of girl gamers. Male egos, especially the young ones, are still very fragile things. Maybe this is something the current generation will set to rights.
Sometimes I wonder where certain stereotypes do come from. In my family my wife does not play. But both my son and daughter do. Also, my littlest daughter likes to watch. None of us play online though. What is strange though is my son still has this idea that certain things are boys. He has tried to tell his sister that she doesn't like marvel movies. I do think more boys play video games, but as generations go by more girls will be a custom to playing video games. I was six or seven when my dad and my sister came home with the Nintendo. I was young enough that while in the mall I had no idea what they were buying and was happy with my lego set. When I saw what it was I wanted to play. I had a small amount of experience at the time with Atari (spelling?) and neither of my parents cared enough to hook that up when we moved. I was told I was too young at the time but that didn't last long. Soon enough I found the third level of Zelda when no one else could. This may all seem as a tangent but my point is this. My dad and my sister never stayed with playing the Nintendo systems. They ended up becoming mine. My mom never got involved in it. Their generation didn't grow up with it. Mine was kind of the first generation that grew up with Nintendo and as new generations start to grow up with it in their homes then more girls will try it and get involved. The littlest girl has been playing Mario sense she was 3. just like her sister. just like her older brother.
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No, no females play minecraft. The 11 million+ for the PC and 8 million+ for the Xbox and not a single one is female.
There are plenty that do. I have a handful of RL friends that play and most of them are female, along with many people I've played with in the past I've found there are plenty. I wouldn't say 50/50, but it sure is close... then again I play with adults and not the horde is screechy little teenagers.
I had no idea this was such a big deal in the gaming world. Minecraft is the only game I've played online with people and I usually end up playing with friend's of my son's or alone. I think it's funny when they are like, "YOU'RE A GIRL?!?!" I'm like, "well yea, my son is usually the one playing on this gamer tag but" "YOU HAVE A SON??!!" "Yea, he's 5, I just like to play after he goes to bed!" lol I did have a young boy give me a diamond once, told him I couldn't believe he gave me a diamond before my own bf did! ha
I must say before this topic i just thought a vast majority of gamers are male but now that it think about it at least half of the servers i play on have a pretty even male/female split. I have seen a large number of women play minecraft(at least more seem to admit they are women).
But i understand what a lot of women said in this thread. My gf loves playing games. It started off as simple xbox live arcade games when we got together 5 years ago. then turned into some strategy games, then fps like halo and COD. Now we have been playing battlefield 3 pretty regularly for so long she actually got her own x-box and copy of the game(preordered bf4 too) so she can play whenever she wants(we live together so we can both play now). But she does have a fairly obvious female gamertag and she has gotten several rude messages including people following her around and singling her out. Even if the rest of our group/friends are on we let her handle her own fights though. She shoves a few RPGS down their throats and the comments usually stop but she has been very upset before by some messages she has gotten so she never uses the mic unless in party chat. But i wonder now how many of the people i play with on battlefield are actually women who wont admit it because of the discrimination towards them and that is very unfortunate. Maybe we will try and go back into team chat once in a while and see if they hear another woman they may be more inclined to speak up.
I know quite a few ladies that play video games both on computer and console. there is one game I play called "Second Life" and surprisingly, about 60-70% that play that game are female. however, there are a lot of "Catfishers" (Cat Fishing = Males that play females to lure real females into intimate relationships) out there, too. I do laugh when a Cat Fisher ends up with another cat fisher thinking it is a girl, I have seen this happen many times.
As for playing female characters, I do but only when I am playing a single player game in 3rd person format, because I would REALLY rather watch a shapely female behind on my screen that any male. on the flip side of the coin, my old lady will often play a male character in order to avoid being singled out as female, (as the OP suggested in her original post). However, I do have to admit that such harassment is not Unique to males on females. I have, on many occasions been forced to mute/ban females on games I have played because of harassment. (a person would think a guy would actually like that sort of thing) But I do not. for one, I am not into virtual relationships, mainly because every one I have ever had has ended in utter disaster, or virtual sex (just not as good as the real thing). and for another, I am in a real life relationship and I have no desire to "play around virtually" with other people (especially considering the fact that there is a 40-60 % chance said other person could be Catfishing).
Seeing as there are several of us females on the dev team, I'd hope at least some other girls played
Something I've noticed: it's vanishingly rare that there is a female programmer in a game's credits. Office stuff, always. Art, usually. But programming, almost never. I'm curious why you think it is that way.
If an only stand playing with a girl if the people I am playing with are very mature. Otherwise the focus turns from the game to trying to impress the girl. Come on guys, she isn't playing video games to look for a boyfriend
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I would say 20% of MC players a female, and 50% of MC players are too young to be able to tell by voice.
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Retired StaffSeriously, it's not just Minecraft -- there are a lot of female players (not just girls but grown women) who are very, very reticent to admit they're female. They use male avatars, don't talk about stereotypical female interests (e.g., if they like both knitting and watching sports, they talk about their team, not their patterns), and make excuses for why they don't talk or sound odd on Vent/TS/whatever. I've met a few IRL who have never admitted they were female in games. (I even knew one -- yes, IRL -- who had voice-changing software)
Some -- a lot -- want to avoid the weirdos, stalkers, and basement dwellers who think they're God's gift to women, and are probably not even the right species. Some of those people are just plain scary, some are merely annoying, but all are better off not in someone's life. They don't want to hear "r u hot irl?" from every juvenile wanker out there. Some don't want to be stereotyped -- they're gamers, not "female gamers", and want to judged on what they can do, not what kind of plumbing they have. And a lot want to be just another gamer, no different from anybody else -- except that "anybody else" is, by default, male.
I'd have to guess that the people who insist on prettyprettyprincess skins for Minecraft are probably a small percentage of the total number of female players out there. And at least a few of the overtly, even ostentatiously, female are not actually female at all -- they're using a female persona to be able to get away with trolling and griefing longer, because they can be "a girl" and get away with things their male equivalent couldn't.
People play Minecraft. Some of those people pee sitting down instead of standing up. Unless that matters to you (in which case I really don't want to know about it) nothing else should. They're people, they're gamers, and they play Minecraft. Y'know, kind of like you.
The golden age: it's not the game, it's you ⋆ Why Minecraft should not be harder ⋆ Spelling hints
And just to be clear. This is not an invitation to send me friend requests so you can hit on me
Thing is, i am one of those online horror stories other women have heard about. The experience made me sketchy about allowing my girls or myself admit our gender online. It's made us cautious, but maybe that caution isn't all bad either.
Ironically, my son and niece beat the crap out of a couple kids from their school in HALO and they had their sisters threaten to beat her up if "she didn't quit pretending to play HALO", but no one ever said anything to my son. I don't know how to change the stereotype of girl gamers. Male egos, especially the young ones, are still very fragile things. Maybe this is something the current generation will set to rights.
To all weird boys out there.....Remember, who Lucinda the troll turned out to be!
There are plenty that do. I have a handful of RL friends that play and most of them are female, along with many people I've played with in the past I've found there are plenty. I wouldn't say 50/50, but it sure is close... then again I play with adults and not the horde is screechy little teenagers.
But i understand what a lot of women said in this thread. My gf loves playing games. It started off as simple xbox live arcade games when we got together 5 years ago. then turned into some strategy games, then fps like halo and COD. Now we have been playing battlefield 3 pretty regularly for so long she actually got her own x-box and copy of the game(preordered bf4 too) so she can play whenever she wants(we live together so we can both play now). But she does have a fairly obvious female gamertag and she has gotten several rude messages including people following her around and singling her out. Even if the rest of our group/friends are on we let her handle her own fights though. She shoves a few RPGS down their throats and the comments usually stop but she has been very upset before by some messages she has gotten so she never uses the mic unless in party chat. But i wonder now how many of the people i play with on battlefield are actually women who wont admit it because of the discrimination towards them and that is very unfortunate. Maybe we will try and go back into team chat once in a while and see if they hear another woman they may be more inclined to speak up.
As for playing female characters, I do but only when I am playing a single player game in 3rd person format, because I would REALLY rather watch a shapely female behind on my screen that any male. on the flip side of the coin, my old lady will often play a male character in order to avoid being singled out as female, (as the OP suggested in her original post). However, I do have to admit that such harassment is not Unique to males on females. I have, on many occasions been forced to mute/ban females on games I have played because of harassment. (a person would think a guy would actually like that sort of thing) But I do not. for one, I am not into virtual relationships, mainly because every one I have ever had has ended in utter disaster, or virtual sex (just not as good as the real thing). and for another, I am in a real life relationship and I have no desire to "play around virtually" with other people (especially considering the fact that there is a 40-60 % chance said other person could be Catfishing).
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Retired StaffSomething I've noticed: it's vanishingly rare that there is a female programmer in a game's credits. Office stuff, always. Art, usually. But programming, almost never. I'm curious why you think it is that way.
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