OW definitely captured a larger market share of women, which is great. I wasn’t too surprised by that. I think it’s a bit more surprising how many women I’ve seen playing Quake, which is about as high skill floor and ceiling as an fps is going to get. Maybe it’s less about ease of entry, and more about the type of appeal? Who knows.
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Just because someone is a girl doesn’t make them an “egirl”
If all girls are “egirls” does that mean all the men are “eboys” then?
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Yes, we are just adding e to the begging of everything online.
Anywho, that’s the end of my ereply. I hope you have a great eevening, and if you play Overwatch I hope you win all your egames.
“e-girl” is a term coined by men who knew they would never physically meet a woman in real life. That’s my best guess.
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To be specific, “e-girl” usually is applied to female streamers, which are known for certain ways to entertain audience. There is entire stereotype behind word.
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Hmm. In my experience it’s used for any woman online and isn’t specific to any particular group. Maybe the usage of the term expanded beyond its original intent, but I personally dislike it.
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The title of the post - “A surplus of egirls” sounds like a terrible idea for the title of a book in the Song of Ice and Fire series.
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I would guess it’s largely the art style with more characters that are interesting to them.
Also the variety of characters that require less fps experience.
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Yes.
It’s just not so catchy to call them eboys.
I was hearing it as one of those YouTube parody songs tbh.
That’s how you know that a piece of art (as the title of this post clearly is) is deep. It means different things to different people.
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https://www.statista.com/statistics/232383/gender-split-of-us-computer-and-video-gamers/
Y’know maybe, maybe… it’s this kind of behavior that drives alienated groups away, or to retain gender-neutral names and stay out of comms? Just a thought.
I lost Trust Level 3 apparently, R.I.P.
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Number of respondents
4,000 respondents
That’s not a particularly large cross-sample of the population.
Have they done more studies with a larger sample group, perhaps?
What even is trust levels here?
Someone call the paramedics. This sentence has been butchered.
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I’m posting in this so I can have my notifications keep going blue for the next 5 weeks.
Definitely agree with you, but it’s the most cited I could find.
I’m sure they have but the issue is 9 of the 10 articles that were cited in other places were all since archived or taken down. Their links don’t work anymore.
I forget the exact specifics, but I know to attain Trust Level 3 back in the day you had to read (a total?) of 20,000 posts and then subsequently a lot every week or so to maintain it. Might also have to deal with how often you reply, get likes, and like other people’s posts/comments but I genuinely don’t remember.
What I do know is if you get flagged on the forums (even falsely), you instantly lose it.
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If you lose it can it be regained? Also does it say when you lose a trust level?
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A lot of it at the beginning was the way support classes worked and the low FPS barrier of entry. Overwatch wasn’t anything like any other shooter and honestly was marketed as not any other shooter, for all the retconning of it today. The team was actively looking to expand the demographics of the playerbase from day one.
As an ancient gamer, it’s one of the nicest things to see in the gaming universe and I want to kick all the toxic jagoffs who do their best to ruin it.
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Yes. I’ve gained it back several times, even when I was flagged once.
No. It doesn’t say when you’ve earned one either, hence my surprise “Oh I can’t post links anymore”.
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