I'm guessing most women play WoW.

I'm talking about a per capita amount like out of every 100 people 20 are female.

I once heard that 40% of WoW players were female, but that sounds high.  PvP servers would have fewer women while RP servers would have more, I assume.

I would think a game like EVE would have a small female population.

Any websites track gender numbers?

This site is slightly outdated, but gives excellent research info on MMOs.

http://www.nickyee.com/daedalus/archives/000194.php

I remember CCP actually released the percentage of females that were subbed to EVE a couple of years ago. It was just over 3% at the time.

Also your WOW number sounds pretty accurate according to a BBC study done in '08

Originally posted by Cecropia

I remember CCP actually released the percentage of females that were subbed to EVE a couple of years ago. It was just over 3% at the time.

Heh, two years ago, my wife was one of 'em.  She rode shotgun on nullsec mining operations and was a decent PVP pilot. 

She insists she's not a "gamer", but she played Eve and loved it.  She plays CIv 4 mostly now, and refuses to save/restore because that would be "retarded".

Just yesterday she saw me playing XCOM and was all up in my grill about it.  I'm going to install it on her computer today and school her in the basics.

But she's not a "gamer".  Nope.

Farmville

Second Life is interesting Linden Labs publishes a report by gender.

But in May of 2005 there were more female players of SL than male.

That number has steadily decreased over the years and is now around 40% female.

I wonder why, could it be because of all the creepy stuff that goes on in SL?

Originally posted by fnorgby

She insists she's not a "gamer", but she played Eve and loved it.  She plays CIv 4 mostly now, and refuses to save/restore because that would be "retarded".

Someone found a winner.

My wife plays Eternal Lands and has been watching me the last few days on regnum. So who knows she may be a gamer yet.

Originally posted by uquipu

Second Life is interesting Linden Labs publishes a report by gender.

But in May of 2005 there were more female players of SL than male.

That number has steadily decreased over the years and is now around 40% female.

I wonder why, could it be because of all the creepy stuff that goes on in SL?

there was that time it rained penises at someones wedding as well iirc.

My wife enjoys EQ2 and she is in all female guild. No boys allowed ;)

Originally posted by Shastra

My wife enjoys EQ2 and she is in all female guild. No boys allowed ;)

 How do you know?  : )

Originally posted by riceae02

Originally posted by Shastra

My wife enjoys EQ2 and she is in all female guild. No boys allowed ;)

 How do you know?  : )

Because of this thing called voice chat ;) they don't take anyone in guild without voice interview first.

Originally posted by Shastra

My wife enjoys EQ2 and she is in all female guild. No boys allowed ;)

Imagine if it was the other way around, an only boys guild. People would scream bloody murder.

Originally posted by uquipu

I'm guessing most women play WoW.

I'm talking about a per capita amount like out of every 100 people 20 are female.

I once heard that 40% of WoW players were female, but that sounds high.  PvP servers would have fewer women while RP servers would have more, I assume.

I would think a game like EVE would have a small female population.

Any websites track gender numbers?

Yup -  We're taking WoW over one server at a time.

We have female only guilds, we have pink tabards and yes when we get on vent we do nothing but talk about shopping, shoes and how the last time we got our nails done how great they looked right after but like 2 days later they've completely gone to hell.

And no, we don't have a clue how to play the game, I personally just push random bottoms and hope something goes right; who knew if you got 25 of us on the lich king doing the same thing mr. frostbite would go down so easily... iknowright?

Oh and if you don't play WoW and play some other more complicated, convoluted, "technical" game like eve, or runscape or whatever to like... get away from us. Don't bother man, just don't bother. We're all over the place.

We have our pink mouses, our pink keyboards, t-shits that spell the word Girl in like 50 different ways (i.e.: Girlz, Gurls, Gurlz, G!lrz, Gu!z, etc, etc), we have our bras, our tampons, make up, spare sweater in case it's cold (it doesn't matter where we're going, it could always be cold) and we're going to take over... oh yeah, we're taking over.

Oh yeah by the way.

Farmville is... AWESOME!

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Originally posted by shae

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Originally posted by uquipu
I'm guessing most women play WoW.
I'm talking about a per capita amount like out of every 100 people 20 are female.
I once heard that 40% of WoW players were female, but that sounds high.  PvP servers would have fewer women while RP servers would have more, I assume.
I would think a game like EVE would have a small female population.
Any websites track gender numbers?

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Yup -  We're taking WoW over one server at a time.
When have female only guilds, we have pink tabards and yes when we get on vent we do nothing but talk about shopping, shoes and how the last time we got our nails done how great they looked right after but like 2 days later they've completely gone to hell.
And no, we don't have a clue how to play the game, I personally just push random bottoms and hope something goes right; who knew if you got 25 of us on the lich king doing the same thing mr. frostbite would go down so easily... iknowright?
Oh and if you don't play WoW and play some other more complicated, convoluted, "technical" game like eve, or runscape or whatever to like... get away from us. Don't bother man, just don't bother. We're all over the place.
We have our pink mouses, our pink keyboards, t-shits that spell the word Girl in like 50 different ways (i.e.: Girlz, Gurls, Gurlz, G!lrz, Gu!z, etc, etc), we have our bras, our tampons, make up, spare sweater in case it's cold (I doesn't matter where we're going, it could always be cold) and we're going to take over... oh yeah, we're taking over.
Oh yeah by the way.
Farmville is... AWESOME!

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Thanks for enlightening me.

* backs slowly away while not making eye contact *

Originally posted by uquipu

 

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Originally posted by shae

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Originally posted by uquipu
I'm guessing most women play WoW.
I'm talking about a per capita amount like out of every 100 people 20 are female.
I once heard that 40% of WoW players were female, but that sounds high.  PvP servers would have fewer women while RP servers would have more, I assume.
I would think a game like EVE would have a small female population.
Any websites track gender numbers?

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Yup -  We're taking WoW over one server at a time.
When have female only guilds, we have pink tabards and yes when we get on vent we do nothing but talk about shopping, shoes and how the last time we got our nails done how great they looked right after but like 2 days later they've completely gone to hell.
And no, we don't have a clue how to play the game, I personally just push random bottoms and hope something goes right; who knew if you got 25 of us on the lich king doing the same thing mr. frostbite would go down so easily... iknowright?
Oh and if you don't play WoW and play some other more complicated, convoluted, "technical" game like eve, or runscape or whatever to like... get away from us. Don't bother man, just don't bother. We're all over the place.
We have our pink mouses, our pink keyboards, t-shits that spell the word Girl in like 50 different ways (i.e.: Girlz, Gurls, Gurlz, G!lrz, Gu!z, etc, etc), we have our bras, our tampons, make up, spare sweater in case it's cold (I doesn't matter where we're going, it could always be cold) and we're going to take over... oh yeah, we're taking over.
Oh yeah by the way.
Farmville is... AWESOME!

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Thanks for enlightening me.

* backs slowly away while not making eye contact *

Don't take me seriously - I was just having some fun :).

Originally posted by shae

Originally posted by uquipu

 

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Originally posted by shae

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Originally posted by uquipu
I'm guessing most women play WoW.
I'm talking about a per capita amount like out of every 100 people 20 are female.
I once heard that 40% of WoW players were female, but that sounds high.  PvP servers would have fewer women while RP servers would have more, I assume.
I would think a game like EVE would have a small female population.
Any websites track gender numbers?

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Yup -  We're taking WoW over one server at a time.
When have female only guilds, we have pink tabards and yes when we get on vent we do nothing but talk about shopping, shoes and how the last time we got our nails done how great they looked right after but like 2 days later they've completely gone to hell.
And no, we don't have a clue how to play the game, I personally just push random bottoms and hope something goes right; who knew if you got 25 of us on the lich king doing the same thing mr. frostbite would go down so easily... iknowright?
Oh and if you don't play WoW and play some other more complicated, convoluted, "technical" game like eve, or runscape or whatever to like... get away from us. Don't bother man, just don't bother. We're all over the place.
We have our pink mouses, our pink keyboards, t-shits that spell the word Girl in like 50 different ways (i.e.: Girlz, Gurls, Gurlz, G!lrz, Gu!z, etc, etc), we have our bras, our tampons, make up, spare sweater in case it's cold (I doesn't matter where we're going, it could always be cold) and we're going to take over... oh yeah, we're taking over.
Oh yeah by the way.
Farmville is... AWESOME!

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Thanks for enlightening me.

* backs slowly away while not making eye contact *

Don't take me seriously - I was just having some fun :).

Understanding sarcasm seems to be a lost "art" nowadays....  I wonder where things went wrong.

Originally posted by Illius

Originally posted by shae

Originally posted by uquipu

 

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Originally posted by shae

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Originally posted by uquipu
I'm guessing most women play WoW.
I'm talking about a per capita amount like out of every 100 people 20 are female.
I once heard that 40% of WoW players were female, but that sounds high.  PvP servers would have fewer women while RP servers would have more, I assume.
I would think a game like EVE would have a small female population.
Any websites track gender numbers?

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Yup -  We're taking WoW over one server at a time.
When have female only guilds, we have pink tabards and yes when we get on vent we do nothing but talk about shopping, shoes and how the last time we got our nails done how great they looked right after but like 2 days later they've completely gone to hell.
And no, we don't have a clue how to play the game, I personally just push random bottoms and hope something goes right; who knew if you got 25 of us on the lich king doing the same thing mr. frostbite would go down so easily... iknowright?
Oh and if you don't play WoW and play some other more complicated, convoluted, "technical" game like eve, or runscape or whatever to like... get away from us. Don't bother man, just don't bother. We're all over the place.
We have our pink mouses, our pink keyboards, t-shits that spell the word Girl in like 50 different ways (i.e.: Girlz, Gurls, Gurlz, G!lrz, Gu!z, etc, etc), we have our bras, our tampons, make up, spare sweater in case it's cold (I doesn't matter where we're going, it could always be cold) and we're going to take over... oh yeah, we're taking over.
Oh yeah by the way.
Farmville is... AWESOME!

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Thanks for enlightening me.

* backs slowly away while not making eye contact *

Don't take me seriously - I was just having some fun :).

Understanding sarcasm seems to be a lost "art" nowadays....  I wonder where things went wrong.

Isn't it OBVIOUS? It's SO hard to tell nowadays because all you do on the INTERNET is TYPE - OBVIOUSLY, if you could SPEAK, you could hear their TONE OF VOICE, which is a dead GIVEAWAY of SARCASM. Duh!!!

To the OP: Chalk one up for WoW. I've met plenty of girls in that game, mostly older women, but still female.

Never touched WoW.

Couple of my friends played it. I could not get past the (imo) horrid graphics.

Originally posted by Shastra

My wife enjoys EQ2 and she is in all female guild. No boys allowed ;)