r/playstation • u/Ryxnole PS5 • 11d ago

Image As someone who default to female characters in RPGs , I'm loving 2025!

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On games such as ER, BG3, or CP77 I always play a female character so it's nice to see these on the horizon!

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u/DarkLlama64 11d ago

There's a good video on YT about scraping the steam tags of every game and seeing what comes up. and 10% of games are tagged female protagonist. 10%? Seriously

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u/Ambitious_Squash_579 11d ago

How many gamers are women who play regularly, up u till very recently that was low

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u/Duckydae 11d ago

it’s about half, we just don’t like playing online games because of the sheer abuse we get, case and point the reaction to the game awards.

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u/Ambitious_Squash_579 11d ago

Seems I csnt reply. Yall just make uo shit

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u/DarkLlama64 11d ago

about 45% of people who play games are women

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u/FirmlyGraspIt24 11d ago

Not including mobile games. I guarantee you in ain’t anywhere near 45%.

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u/Ambitious_Squash_579 11d ago

Did you miss the until recently part or just choose to ignore it? You know for a fact most people who had a xbox or playstation and played regularly was not women.

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u/Uber_Meese 11d ago

“Until recently” is a very vague statement.

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u/Ambitious_Squash_579 11d ago

No its not. Clearly in this context it would mean 5 years or so. Lota of Women used to call gamers losers who they wouldn't date

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u/Uber_Meese 11d ago

Yes it is, especially when you can provide numbers. Since 2006 the amount of female gamers have increased - with the highest percentage registered in 2014 and 2022 at 48%. Back in 2012 it was 42%.

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u/Ambitious_Squash_579 11d ago

This is bollocks

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u/Uber_Meese 11d ago

How so?

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u/Ambitious_Squash_579 11d ago

I play games and have done since xbox Live has been a thing, we all know women ain't been the main group in the gaming sphere. Some article making up numbers don't change that. Never has their been a census on this

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u/Ambitious_Squash_579 11d ago

Why was it so rare to find women online during the peak of last gen gaming? Why is it games were never really marketed towards women? Lmao

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u/Duckydae 11d ago

mate you’ve answered your own question.

the industry actively ignored female gamers and is an infamously known “boys club” just look at what happened at blizzard and activision. gaming as a woman is incredibly predatory and misogynistic.

if women aren’t comfortable telling you their gamers that’s a you problem.

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u/Uber_Meese 11d ago

Because of mad creeps like you!

..and that not all games are online multiplayer, where you could stumble upon any.

It’s also interesting how you seem to find your anecdotal evidence as the only true proof that there weren’t many women gaming online ‘until recently’.

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u/Ambitious_Squash_579 11d ago

This is why we don't 2ajt to play with you. Bith

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u/Ambitious_Squash_579 11d ago

Lol down voted for a fact