08-02-2013, 05:35 AM
1) Are you male or female?
Dude
2) How often do you play video games?
Nearly every day/ 6 days a week
2-2) What genre of games do you prefer to play?
Fighting
2-3) Within this time, how much of this is spent on online games? (if none, skip to 5)
Minimal
3) Within online games, do you prefer to choose a character based on your gender, or the opposite gender, and why? (if you only play as male, skip to question 4)
?
3-2) When playing as a female, do you use your characters gender to try to get freebies from other players?
No. Except for that one time
4) When playing online games, do you treat female characters differently to male characters? If so, then why? (anywhere from giving them freebies to killing them for playing a 'guys game'. This includes being kinder to new players)
No.
4-2) What is your general response to females in games that try to use their gender or sexuality for items/equipment/money?
That's their choice and they shouldn't be called on it.
5) What is your general thought when hearing the term 'Girl Gamer' or 'Gamer Girl'?
Anything that gives a title of female/gamer [insert hobby title/profession] is archaic and pathetic. There is no title for Female Movie-goer or Female comic book reader so why is there for a female gamer or gamer in general. Segregating each is BS and so are the females that feel proud of such a title.
6) How many female gamers do you know? (if 0, skip to question 7)
Around 10 but they're not "female gamers".
6-2) Of the female gamers you know, including yourself if you are a girl, what majority are casual gamers? (social games, iphone games, etc)
Casual games?
7) Do you think that casual gamers are real gamers, or not?
There's no such thing as real/hardcore/casual gamers, since there's no such title as real/hardcore/casual TV fans.
8) Do you think there should be a market of games designed for girls only, or should it continue to be a unisex genre?
Wait... what?
9) Within games, what is your opinion on the sexualization of female characters? (from skimpy outfits to constant flirting with males (e.g. Mass Effect))
Mass Effect being a bad example since the trilogy is based on character development and interaction. Mass Effect also has gay and bi relationships that play out the same regardless of gender, So flirting is perfectly fine and it's nowhere even near constantly. Not to mention there's nothing wrong with females flirting. As for girls dressed in skimpy outfits. So? Being offended by something as trivial as this laughable at best. It's purposefully pointing out the worst of character designs but not acknowledging good character design. Lastly it comes down to what the player makes of it, whether they find it hot or not is their own opinion.
9-2) Using the above as an example, what do you think could be done to fix this?
Nothing. Games have the freedom of art to allow creators to express themselves in anyway that they want and shouldn't come under political correctness. Nothing needs to be "fixed"
10) If you have anything else to add, please do so here as it will help the research data.
Make questions that aren't based on assumptions.
Dude
2) How often do you play video games?
Nearly every day/ 6 days a week
2-2) What genre of games do you prefer to play?
Fighting
2-3) Within this time, how much of this is spent on online games? (if none, skip to 5)
Minimal
3) Within online games, do you prefer to choose a character based on your gender, or the opposite gender, and why? (if you only play as male, skip to question 4)
?
3-2) When playing as a female, do you use your characters gender to try to get freebies from other players?
No. Except for that one time
4) When playing online games, do you treat female characters differently to male characters? If so, then why? (anywhere from giving them freebies to killing them for playing a 'guys game'. This includes being kinder to new players)
No.
4-2) What is your general response to females in games that try to use their gender or sexuality for items/equipment/money?
That's their choice and they shouldn't be called on it.
5) What is your general thought when hearing the term 'Girl Gamer' or 'Gamer Girl'?
Anything that gives a title of female/gamer [insert hobby title/profession] is archaic and pathetic. There is no title for Female Movie-goer or Female comic book reader so why is there for a female gamer or gamer in general. Segregating each is BS and so are the females that feel proud of such a title.
6) How many female gamers do you know? (if 0, skip to question 7)
Around 10 but they're not "female gamers".
6-2) Of the female gamers you know, including yourself if you are a girl, what majority are casual gamers? (social games, iphone games, etc)
Casual games?
7) Do you think that casual gamers are real gamers, or not?
There's no such thing as real/hardcore/casual gamers, since there's no such title as real/hardcore/casual TV fans.
8) Do you think there should be a market of games designed for girls only, or should it continue to be a unisex genre?
Wait... what?
9) Within games, what is your opinion on the sexualization of female characters? (from skimpy outfits to constant flirting with males (e.g. Mass Effect))
Mass Effect being a bad example since the trilogy is based on character development and interaction. Mass Effect also has gay and bi relationships that play out the same regardless of gender, So flirting is perfectly fine and it's nowhere even near constantly. Not to mention there's nothing wrong with females flirting. As for girls dressed in skimpy outfits. So? Being offended by something as trivial as this laughable at best. It's purposefully pointing out the worst of character designs but not acknowledging good character design. Lastly it comes down to what the player makes of it, whether they find it hot or not is their own opinion.
9-2) Using the above as an example, what do you think could be done to fix this?
Nothing. Games have the freedom of art to allow creators to express themselves in anyway that they want and shouldn't come under political correctness. Nothing needs to be "fixed"
10) If you have anything else to add, please do so here as it will help the research data.
Make questions that aren't based on assumptions.