You’re wrong. Apples and oranges. Instead of recognising that people like different sorts of games, you’re arguing that the games should be changed until people like them equally. It just happens that guys are responding better, but not exclusively, to the games you want to change - and because it’s guys, you see that as a bad thing. It’s just a thing. There is a huge choice of entertainment media available, yet time and again we hear that games should change because they’re catering to men. They’re not catering for men, they’re generally made by men for men, or by boys for boys. Why that’s bad, I don’t understand. Is all media supposed to be equally appealing to everyone? How is that useful?
You’ll say oh I don’t get it, girls are being marginalized, ignored or worse. Yeah. Guys who like mini-vans aren’t going to buy sports cars just because you add some more cup-holders.
If you make the violent, brash, sexy games appeal to more women then they’re no longer going to be violent, brash and sexy. You’ve just removed the appeal of that game from its core audience.
IF you want to make the argument that games shouldn’t be violent, brash or sexy, then make it and come out and say you want to see games like that banned, because that’s what you’re proposing. But you know what, games are a relatively new medium, so how about you come for them AFTER you’ve taken the violent, brash and sexy out of comics, books, radio, television, movies and, oh you know, everything else.
Applying specific examples of running across a small element of bad apples doesn’t validate taking away the entertainment from the majority who enjoy it. No-one is suggesting that book groups should have more strippers and beer kegs. I’m done flogging that horse - last time at book group this guy called me an ignoramus for suggesting we have a push-up contest, so all book clubs are bad and all the members are asshats. right?
And can we stop conflating two things. There are a ton of options available in most on-line games, or social networks or forums, to block people who give you a hard time. Use them. Assholes being assholes and games appealing more to a specific gender are two different things, unless you want to stereotype all males as assholes, which seems to be the latent argument here.
Incidentally,
I didn’t suggest it.
