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?

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piker a day ago | parent | next [-]

Average? 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 a day ago | parent | next [-]

I'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.

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gpt5 21 hours ago | parent [-]

From SQ Magazine (not sure how reliable they are):

92% identify as male, 7% female.

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 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The 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-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... 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/

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teolandon a day ago | parent | next [-]

none of your comment is good faith, try again

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OxO4 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Are 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 a day ago \| parent [-]
		Are you suggesting that demographic trends between all genres of game are identical?