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What leads you to that conclusion? What do you think the average Steam user looks like? What about them doesn't fit your idea of this?
by MrDrone 3mo ago
What leads you to that conclusion? What do you think the average Steam user looks like? What about them doesn't fit your idea of this?
- piker 3mo agoAverage? Well, male for one. It's not my point, but I don't think you're giving a strong rebuttal either.
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- DoctorOW 3mo agoI'd say about half of Steam players aren't male. The "video games are for boys" thing is kind of a self fulfilling prophecy because anyone who believes that will obviously not play with a woman.
- gpt5 3mo agoFrom SQ Magazine (not sure how reliable they are): 92% identify as male, 7% female. https://sqmagazine.co.uk/steam-statistics/ https://sqmagazine.co.uk/steam-statistics/ I think that it's true that games are definitely being played by both males and females today, but I think that statistics is that mobile games skew female, and PC games skew male.
- starkparker 3mo agoThe ESA, which covers only the US ages 18+: 53% male, 68% white, 87% straight, median age 37. https://www.theesa.com/resources/essential-facts-about-the-us-video-game-industry/2026-data/ https://www.theesa.com/resources/essential-facts-about-the-u... A female share of around 40-48% has held steady in this report since around 2007. Quantic Foundry's research largely backs that women prefer more casual-genre games like match 3, with a mobile bent that wouldn't show up in Steam data: https://quanticfoundry.com/2017/01/19/female-gamers-by-genre/ https://quanticfoundry.com/2017/01/19/female-gamers-by-genre... But they also show a heavy preference for third-person MMOs that are also less likely to show up in Steam data: https://quanticfoundry.com/2023/01/27/perspective/ https://quanticfoundry.com/2023/01/27/perspective/
- sltkr 3mo ago[flagged]
- OxO4 3mo agoAre you suggesting that you can tell the types of games someone enjoys by just looking at them? (Your reply is another example of right-wing discourse being around prejudiced assumptions instead of reality.)
- eudamoniac 3mo agoAre you suggesting that demographic trends between all genres of game are identical?
- teolandon 3mo agonone of your comment is good faith, try again
- eldaisfish 3mo agothe comment you replied to is a homophobic dogwhistle. The tech sector is rife with blatant homophobia, racism, and a false sense of intellectual superiority. Hacker News is an excellent cross section of the typical techbro culture.
- ffsm8 3mo ago[flagged]
- eldaisfish 3mo ago[flagged]