Demographic survey!

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What are you(the player not the chars)?

Female
7
12%
Male
52
88%
 
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Demographic survey!

#1 Post by darkgod »

The recent poll about character sex made me wonder the % of female players(playeresses ? :)

So ...
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#2 Post by Wolfe »

If the demographic is anything similar to MUD players, it'll be males in the majority, but not by as much as you might expect. In a poll I did for Aardwolf, about a third of players were (or claimed to be) female. This bore little relation to the genders of their characters, which had about an 80/20% split in favor of males. That might be different in ToME, where female characters are less likely to get hit on by male players ;)

[Edit: Yeah. Guy here, also ;)]
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#3 Post by Xandor Tik'Roth »

I'm a guy. Hehe.....

I don't know why that is, but somehow it works.
And it was such a good idea...
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#4 Post by Maylith »

Wolfe wrote:If the demographic is anything similar to MUD players, it'll be males in the majority, but not by as much as you might expect.
Hm... well, MUSHes may be different than MUDs in that respect. In the MUSHes I worked on, females (or at least those claiming to be female) were very nearly even with the males, if not more common.

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#5 Post by Wolfe »

Yeah, that's been my experience, too. I think the combat side of things must appeal to the male adolescent ;)
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#6 Post by Rani »

Playeress? That's a word I haven't heard before, but I suppose I am one :)

I'm also a playeress of MUDs, tabletop RPGs, and stuff like The Sims, Neverwinter Nights, and Diablo II. In those I usually play females. In tabletop RPGs, I've played many female PCs, but only two males, and one of those males actually started out female (wands of wonder suck). When you're actually roleplaying, things like gender changing curses and traps and whatnot actually Do make a significant difference in gameplay.

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#7 Post by Arioch_Arioch »

Well I'm glad to see that the scales are evening out genderwise in games. Now that more women are being incarcerated for violent crimes in North America, soon little boys *and* girls here will be harangued by their parents for playing too many video games!



Male here
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#8 Post by Serin »

darkgod wrote:The recent poll about character sex made me wonder the % of female players(playeresses ? :)

So ...
Author of poll here, I am male, but my wife plays on occasion as well! :wink:
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#9 Post by Falconis »

Hmm, just wondering if an age poll would also be interesting.

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#10 Post by Serin »

Falconis wrote:Hmm, just wondering if an age poll would also be interesting.
Why not?
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#11 Post by Aphael »

Then go for it! I'm also curious.
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#12 Post by Serin »

Aphael wrote:Then go for it! I'm also curious.
right.
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#13 Post by furiosity »

I'm female and always thought that the 'ity' end would give it away, but it doesn't most of the time, as I always get mistaken for a guy online, probably because I'm interested in traditional 'guy stuff' more than I am in traditional 'girl stuff.' Given the results of the poll above so far, I'd say ToME would be among the 'guy stuff' on my lists of interests. :P
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#14 Post by Serin »

furiosity wrote:I'm female and always thought that the 'ity' end would give it away, but it doesn't most of the time, as I always get mistaken for a guy online, probably because I'm interested in traditional 'guy stuff' more than I am in traditional 'girl stuff.' Given the results of the poll above so far, I'd say ToME would be among the 'guy stuff' on my lists of interests. :P
you may be mistaken because in the english language -ity is non-gender specific unlike in some other languages (although they ending is not -ity in those languages, but translates to it)!
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#15 Post by Maylith »

I didn't guess you were female, Furiosity. The word 'furiosity' is a noun, and English is (almost) genderless.

I didn't know that about '-ity', Serin. Interesting!
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