I need to know why so many girls play this game. Like, it’s great, it reallllly Is! But like, whyyyy this game? I play this game because it’s fun, but I am a strange girl and I alwayus like shooters, but I haven’t seen so many gsrls in any other game beofre. AND why are so manty egirls? No hate no malice just wondering please and thank you 
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Especially when they’re playing Ana
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More inclusive characters that are also (on a base level) easy to play for people (including women) who may be somewhat new to games.
Pretty much it
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No, you see it that way because you can’t accurately keep a statistical abacus of how many female players you have played with, and who were toxic.
You don’t know how many female players you played with. Some were silent and never spoke, some spoke on voice chat and you just glossed over it because they weren’t toxic, and some were toxic, but those were the only ones who you added to the numerator and denominator.
It’s the same logic with poor women drivers stereotyping. You don’t add to the denominator all of the female drivers who were predictable and ordinary, they just get glossed over. Seeing 10 bad female drivers, and like 20 that you bothered to remember puts the counter at 50/50. Although the truth is more like 10/20000.
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because they keep making easy to play hard counters for them to play
Ah sorry I guess I never thought about it like that.
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Because half of them are actually dudes…
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Idk…I play this game for fun? Not sure what are you trying to suggest here…
Question is - why so many “eboys” in this game?
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this is gonna explode pretty soon 
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What are e girls ?
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Way I see it, more women playing games is a good thing. Its a good thing that everyone is playing and having fun, I think it should always be that way.
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Diversity in the characters vs other shooters also the efforts blizzard went to in courage a wide range of influencers.
Not to mention gateway heroes that allow players to learn an fps meaning rather than pulling from 95%+ male fps audience they pull from 50% male/female audience as it’s a competitive fps someone can start with.
Honestly, even though the player base is 80 to 90% male they did a decent job encouraging anyone to play OW. The biggest problem still is the backwards fps culture that still exists which ironically Activision helped build.
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Obligatory “there are no women on the internet” / “those who claim to be women are actually 400 pound men”
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Imagine being called an “e girl” because you’re human that enjoys video games. Why categorize and stigmatize your fellow humans like this?
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Why not? It’s one of few FPS games with decent graphics, where you play basically as yourself.
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I’d say this rings true… one of the reasons OW appealed to me, was because it seemed to have a low barrier of entry for an online FPS. Plus it was made by blizzard, and this was way before all their current controversy, so I wanted to support them and give it a chance.
All that said, however, I’ve been having the same thought as OP since I started this game, which is “wow there really are a lot of girls playing this title”. Like OP says, that’s far from a bad thing and is refreshing… just not something I’m used to, is all.
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Because we all want to play as strong female heroes deep down. 
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Because categorizing and stigmatizing is gamer’s, and in a bigger picture, humanity’s specialty.
Overwatch teaches you to be toxic. You get bullied (they call it countering), and then you become a bully.
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