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FfaerieOxide@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• saigot@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  who is playing

  This is either wrong or misleading. Women make up 48% of gamers. That isn’t a majority quite, but mem certainly aren’t dominating either. When you throw race as a demographic into this maybe it changes or maybe they just relied on how they feel about it, but I think it’s misleading either way.

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  • HeavyRaptor@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Does this include Candy Crush an mobile gaming? I’d say that people who play something on their phone every now and then won’t be foaming from their mouths because of something like this. Then again, they don’t buy the games that we’re talking about here so that’s why I’m asking (I checked your link but couldn’t find this info)

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  • Uranium3006@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    video games being mostly men was a thing but hasn't been for over a decade now

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    • t3rmit3@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hasn’t been since the early 2000s, more like.

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  • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d like to know what source that page is using. What does it count as “gaming”? Because too often, these stats include both intentional and incidental gaming. Those are my terms because I don’t know what the official terminology is, but it’s a distinction that I know gets talked about in serious circles and it’s worth making here. When people talk about who is a “gamer”, they instinctively always mean people who have made a deliberate decision to sit down and play a game now. They don’t mean “oh I’m bored, let me pull out the phone and play a round of Candy Crush”.

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