Chicks on the Staff!!

Desperado

If you guys really want to get some good opinions/ things done on the site- you should put a Woman on the mmorpg.com staff.  -Nothin' like a woman to get non-stop opinions.  Get out of your chauvenistic ways you mmorpg.com guys!!!   Get a chick on the staff!

"A good man knows his limits, a Great man knows he has none...."

FaeryShivers

Hahaha..I don't think they don't have one because of sexism :P Even though the game world has expanded rapidly to females over the last few years there still is a huge ratio of men to women in the gaming world. Even on my game we have around 800 people signed up and maybe 15 are female (thats not even an exagerration either :O) most "females" on mmorpgs are just guys the daedalus project pretty much proved that :P

nothing like a woman for non stop opinions rofl...=P

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squeee

Wasnt there a study one time that said more women play half life than men?  I bet there are more women out there than you think, they just don't feel the need to advertise the way that men do.  If I was a woman I would have a male avatar in order to be able to play without being hit on all the time.

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Serien

Misti is a member....

Misti

I'm a member but not on the staff. 

I do have lots of opinions on things I just love to blab about though. 

Though guys still outnumber us in many catagories alot of it comes down to the types of games your looking at.  I just read that there are more female gamers age 17 to 28 then there are male.  The thing is many of us play more things like online card games and such rather then roleplaying games or halflife.

I think Everquest has been one of the biggest things for getting more of us to play roleplay games.  Supposedly durring peak hours EQ has about 2000 people on per server and about 200 of those are female.

The social aspects of mmorpgs are making this type of gaming a lot more attractive then it has been in the past which is a good thing.  That and the fact that if we ever want to see our boyfriends, husbands, and brothers these days, we may just have to join a Dragon raid to do it. 

FaeryShivers

Squee I'm basing the ratio on what I've seen on my game along with reasearch done by game magazines and The daedalus project  ( http://www.nickyee.com/daedalus/) Half life is ONE game. As for gender bending in games its been proven that men play female characters more of the time than females play male characters. I was quite shocked myself that there still aren't that many female gamers in comparison to men but I've done my on reasearch and looked at others work..and its true. I've seen the numbers ...there are a lot less women out there than I thought :P Yes you could say maybe the women don't do the surveys or don't advertise it but the ratio is still substiantial even when you're only looking at 800-1000 people in real life and online studies.

Edit :Oops Misti replied right after I went to type something :P Misti I've read that more women get into gaming after they are married especially if they stay at home where did you read that ? (I like as much information on MMORPG research as I can possibly get ^_^ ). If I didnt like working so much thats probably what I would do with my time :P and yes EQ had a HUGE effect on female gamers playing..the game I'm making I'm hoping to get an equal balance of males and females playing by making it more attractive to get females to play too. Most girls ..well atleast I and many girls I know like dark games..I like bright and colorful games (and EQ is fairly colorful in my opinion) a dark enviroment just puts me in a bad mood :P No one gets why I like korean games so much even when I can't understand all of them..its the COLORS

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Misti

Yay I found one of the articles, its at http://www.gamegal.com/esa_poll/index.htm, and oops, I was wrong on the age group thing but oh well I was close!  I know I read another more detailed one somewhere recently too, hmmm.

Misti

Oh, this ESA study has some interesting numbers too.  http://www.theesa.com/pressroom.html

How Many People Play Computer and Video Games?

50% of all Americans play video games.

Who Purchases Computer and Video Games?

97% of people who purchase computer games and 92% of people who purchase video games are 18 years or older. Of those under 18 years old who purchase games, 83% get their parents permission. 43% of people who purchase computer games are men and 57% are women. 53% of people who purchase console games are men and 47% are women.

Who Plays Computer and Video Games?

39% of people who play computer and video games are women. The average age of a computer or video game player is 29 years old.

For Computer Gamers...

• 30% of most frequent game players are under eighteen years old
  
• 25% of most frequent game players are between 18 and 35 years old
  
• 41% of most frequent game players are over 35 years old

For Console Gamers...

• 38% of most frequent game players are under eighteen years old
  
• 40% of most frequent game players are between 18 and 35 years old
  
• 22% of most frequent game players are over 35 years old

Desperado

Ok....My main point of this thread was that we needed a Female perspective on the STAFF.  It's true that more men play mmorpgs than women, but that's not what I was trying to focus on here.  As you can see in the above posts- chicks tend to give a more indepth explaination of their viewpoints, including facts & articles to support their point.  I'm not saying no guy does this, but most would simply say "I'm right ...you're wrong...naaah "

"A good man knows his limits, a Great man knows he has none...."

FaeryShivers

Why have us on staff when they can watch me and Misti talk in the forums lol :P I'm sure if they needed more staff they could easily find some girls

(thanks for that info misti )

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Desperado

Wow, I didn't know so many were opposed to this idea.  Aaaah well.

 

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Serien

hehe

Desperado

HAHA!!

"A good man knows his limits, a Great man knows he has none...."

Serien

squeee

I would love to see a female on staff.  It would add a new degree of fun, to making fun of staff members.  Not that I would ever do that of course.

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My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.
Why doesn't DOS ever say "EXCELLENT command or filename!"

Customer: "How fast will my COM ports go?"
Tech Support: "How hard can you throw your computer?"

Desperado

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh  squee!!  That was the SECRET plan all along!! lol

"A good man knows his limits, a Great man knows he has none...."

Odin1985

ok i think they should be too lik ehaving both sides of the coin, but i think they also need to add a photo of them, in bikini or underwaer what eve they decide

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squeee

Nah, I respect women way more than that.  I am just saying that it is always fun to make fun of Djin or KillerTwinky.  Making fun of someone of the opposite sex, could add a whole new twist.

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My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.
Why doesn't DOS ever say "EXCELLENT command or filename!"

Customer: "How fast will my COM ports go?"
Tech Support: "How hard can you throw your computer?"

Serien

Djin should hire...

Pamela Answerson

shes a famour porn star if you dont know

Misti

This is mmorpg.com not moreporn.com! 

Serien

lol hehe u say that cuz your a woman

Desperado

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Originally posted by Misti
This is mmorpg.com not moreporn.com!  

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Misti is right!!  This isn't moreporn.com!!  Dammit it should be!! ....-but it t'aint.

And the Pimp-Gnome says:

"It's a forest thang ba-by, you wouldn't understand!!"

 

"A good man knows his limits, a Great man knows he has none...."

Uiruru

AHHHH!!!! Women!!!! I must say had I known there would be women here I would have behaved myself more betterer...

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Oh my god... dont ask where i found it

Uiruru

Hey murt thats 1 of 2 pics I have ever seen of Pam Anderson that she wasnt nude in...

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Oh my god... dont ask where i found it

Admin

We would gladly hire a female staff member.  But we do not practive affirmative action here at MMORPG.COM - we hire based on merits alone.  And to be honest, I have never had a female apply for a position.

We are going to be setting up a "Staff Application" area where anyone can submit applicaitons to be a staff member.  This will give us a nice stack of them to go through when we need people.

 

- MMORPG.COM Staff -

Serien

lol im surprised Djin hasnt deleted my pic of pamela anderson

....maybe djin knows who she is.....