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Also, that Nintendo magazine advertisement is hilarious. Great find."

Yeah it's stupid stereotyping girls who play games, or girls or listen to heavy metal or anything else like that. But I would still like to meet a girl who is into the same games as me, all the girls I know go : your an idiot with no life. when I tell them what I do in my spare time.

"HEY JAYGE, WHY HAVEN'T YOU SENT ME A MESSAGE ON XBL YET?!?! ARE YOU TALKING TO SOME OTHER GIRLS?!?! I SHOULD BE THE ONLY GIRL YOU TALK TO!!10101 DON'T U WANT TO PLAY BARBIE'S HORSE ADVENTURES WITH ME?!?!"

"It's all stereotypical. If you are a female who plays games, you are automatically assumed to like girly games. If females play "real" games (I don't consider games like the "Imagine" series to be real games), we are presumed to be wanting attention. I don't want attention, I just want to play games. I don't want pink consoles, I don't want girly games. I hate when developers like Ubisoft feel the need to create special games just to target the female audience. I hate games that cater to one gender.

Yes, there are some females who just want attention, that's part of their personality. There are people who beg for attention, male and female, it's very silly to judge all female gamers based on the few who just want to be noticed. Although I really hate these female-only clans popping up everywhere now, I can see why so many of them are being created. Female gamers are trying to get out their feelings that they play real games too, and they want developers to know that we don't want games that only target our gender. I just hope in the future, developers realize that females are playing the same games that they think will only appeal to males and understand that they don't need to create "special" games just for us.

Also, that Nintendo magazine advertisement is hilarious. Great find."

"brukaoru said:

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I said something along these lines a previous topic, but the reply was a day late, so you I guess I didn't expect you to see it. Anyways, if you don't want attention, and you don't want 'girl' games, then what the fuck are you rambling on about? If you're content with Gears, Halo, or whatever crap you like to play, then why do you feel the need to bitch? Or do you want them to add a female protagonist.. when you just said you didn't want them to target women.

I have no fucking idea where you're going with this.. do you want companies to stop producing good-selling shovel ware games? Is that you're one complaint? Because that's just fucking ridiculous. They make money, and companies will produce them for that. Just as males, no one is forcing you to buy them. Companies will make them, because they sell, and 'real gamers' won't buy them. End of story.
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"I'm guessing she dislikes her demographic being consistently exploited in terms of advertising (falsely) and it irks her that stereotypes the game communities may be attempting to reform are consistently upheld by the industry itself, and are stagnant because of that."