Open thread – demographics
This is an open thread just like any other. Except, if you can’t think of anything else to comment about, take a look at SupComTalk’s recent demographics polls:
Assuming that this site’s readers are a representative sampling of the game’s players as a whole, what are the implications? Or might this site’s readership be skewed in some way, and how?
April 17th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
Nothing really to drive discussion in those results… they’re pretty much what would be expected: Almost entirely male and containing slightly more adults than most other RTS games due to the TA fanbase from ten years ago and the slightly steeper learning curve and grander scale of the game compared to other RTS games available that would attract more of the younger crowd.
April 17th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
You know what this blog needs… Trolls so we can all make fun of them. Any volunteers?
April 17th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
“You know what this blog needs… Trolls so we can all make fun of them. Any volunteers?”
Advertising this blog more on GPGnet forums would bring enough trolls =)
Feature suggestion: Quoting (!)
April 17th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
I’d like to have a girlfriend that plays Supreme Commander :).
…actually I’d be happy to have just a girlfriend…
April 17th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Younger player can’t afford machines to play this game on, and women wouldn’t be inclined to pay for them.
April 17th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
Yeah, we really don’t need any trolls. If I see any popping up, I’ll deal with them swiftly and harshly. As for quoting, I don’t know, I considered it at some point. But unless discussions get really long and really multi-threaded, I don’t really see a use for it. It would just make comments that used quoting take up more screen real estate when instead you could just scroll up a little (or flick your eyeballs up) to read the comment that is being replied to.
But the way things are going, and with threads getting rather long, I guess it may make sense to add a quote button.
April 17th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
I bet you those who voted women are acutally guys
April 17th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
Unconq: Yeah, but why would a guy lie about being a girl? I mean, I understand doing that in WoW to get free gold, but what does one have to gain by lying here?
April 17th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
@Cyde Weys, because it’s the internet.
April 17th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
Wuped: If anything, being on the Internet would mean that those claiming to be guys are actually girls. There are now more women on the Internet than men. Please, can we kill off this silly old stereotype that only males use the Internet. It’s simply not true.
April 17th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
Sure, there are more females on the ‘net than males, but I doubt those females are playing Supcomm. The results seem pretty accurate to me.
April 17th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
I think we’re going in circles here. I started off by saying that few females are playing SupCom :-/
April 17th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
I see gamers as gamers. Who gives a shit if they’re male or female?
April 17th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
I got my ex-girlfriend to play the first few missions in the UEF campaign. She said the game was too complicated, but she hasn’t sworn it off.
April 17th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
Molloy: But male gamers cannot reproduce with other male gamers. So it matters, if for no other reason than where the future generations of gamers will come from.
April 17th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
“Wuped: If anything, being on the Internet would mean that those claiming to be guys are actually girls. There are now more women on the Internet than men. Please, can we kill off this silly old stereotype that only males use the Internet. It’s simply not true.”
Heh sorry I spend to much time on internet forums.
April 18th, 2007 at 7:23 am
Women just aren’t as predisposed to liking competitive games as men are. That’s why you get few if any world class Chess or Go players. That isn’t going to change.