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[Victrix]

So after four months of playing Destiny, and reaching a friends list on my PS4 in excess of 100 people, I have encountered... zero women. Nada. Zilch. Zero.

Not one single person I found online, on a forum, on a matchmaking site, in-game, a friend of a friend, or in a random party has been a woman playing Destiny.

In fact I think the sum total of non-masculine voices coming over the mic was a few party member's wives or girlfriends chatting in the background.

So what's going on here? Is Destiny 100% male much like CoD? Are the handful of people I met refusing or not using a mic actually women who don't want to get harassed? Am I, or my (adult, married/girlfriended/parent) male friends jerks on the mic?

 

[Morrigan Stark]

I know a girl on my friendlist who plays it. Don't know if she uses the mic or not. Her PSN screen name is ambiguous.

Maybe you play with women and just don't know it.

 

[Purple Cheeto]

Its not a dating service, its a video game.

 

[darthbob]

So after four months of playing Destiny, and reaching a friends list on my PS4 in excess of 100 people, I have encountered... zero women. Nada. Zilch. Zero.

Not one single person I found online, on a forum, on a matchmaking site, in-game, a friend of a friend, or in a random party has been a woman playing Destiny.

In fact I think the sum total of non-masculine voices coming over the mic was a few party member's wives or girlfriends chatting in the background.

So what's going on here? Is Destiny 100% male much like CoD? Are the handful of people I met refusing or not using a mic actually women who don't want to get harassed? Am I, or my (adult, married/girlfriended/parent) male friends jerks on the mic?

There's a few women who play the game, just look at the Destiny OT.

 

[blackflag]

There's several that play in the OT..

Both my daughter and step daughter play and raid....no I'm not giving out their PSN names

 

[bananafactory]

I've never come across a female player in any online game.

 

[Bizazedo]

I've played with two. Granted, they don't use the mics, so I have to trust them.

 

[Travo]

Honestly, what were you expecting?

 

[blackflag]

I've never come across a female player in any online game.

Is it like a bananafactory?

 

[Jb]

How do you know for sure? Does everyone you play with identify itself as a guy/girl?

 

[BibiMaghoo]

Maybe they just don't use mics.

Maybe, they don't use them for a good reason.

 

[Sinatar]

I guess the ladies have better taste in games then you.

 

[Flying Toaster]

My co-worker and friend who happens to be a female plays. They are out there. Also look at the Destiny OT there are a few women in that thread that are die hard Destiny players.

 

[bananafactory]

Is it like a bananafactory?

Pretty much

 

[DanteRavenkin]

My (girl)friend plays with me regularly, so I know there's at least one woman online in Destiny. A couple girls I used to work with also play from time to time.

 

[Morrigan Stark]

I guess the ladies have better taste in games then you.

LOL

 

[Shining Sunshine]

The only person I played Destiny with was a girl that I met through Toro's Friend Network.

 

[Bulbasaur]

I know a girl on my friendlist who plays it. Don't know if she uses the mic or not. Her PSN screen name is ambiguous.

Giving her screen name away to strangers isn't cool, bro.

 

[dmr87]

Sounds like the internet.

 

[HammerOfThor]

Every online game I've ever played is a sausage fest.

 

[Victrix]

I've never come across a female player in any online game.

Many of my mmo guilds had a fairly healthy male/female balance in the ranks, and voice chat was the better for it. Often it was families too, sometimes across generations, which was quite cool (fun to raid with mom and dad one night, then rag on their son when he's stuck on some fight with his other group).

 

[DownGrader]

I've never come across a female player in any online game.

Mario Kart 8 is quite full with women - the female Miis, at least. Most of women are playing paired with the men, though, as far as I see by locations in lists and region tags.

 

[Cider X]

A grindy sci-fi shooter with terrible social mechanics has no women playing? I'm shocked.

 

[Doombacon]

Personally every time I join a group online I make sure to state my Name, Sex, Occupation, and Bank PIN# so that there is no confusion down the line.

 

[Jigolo]

Try playing CoD. You'll then see where the true sasuagefest lies

 

[perineumlick]

Giving her screen name away to strangers isn't cool, bro.

Lol, that's not her screen name.

 

[FunkyPajamas]

See what you did, OP?

 

[Massive Duck. C.M.]

Honestly, what were you expecting?

Really though.

Odds are most of the women who play keep to themselves or only play with people they know IRL to avoid...this

 

[BreezyLimbo]

Lol, that's not her screen name.

'that's not' is her screename? BRO, BRO!

 

[Recarpo]

A lot of women don't use mics because guys tend to freak out and get really obnoxious/harassy when there's a girl playing. Has happened to my wife the few times we aren't in a party chat or playing with random people.

 

[mcfizzle4]

I have played with one female on my friends list who uses a mic.

The game isn't exactly designed for you to know since you have up be in a fireteam to hear each other and I never do fireteam chat with randoms. My guess is the splits are probably similar across all of gaming.

 

[Chaos2Frozen]

There are obviously going to be SOME women who would play it, but as a whole Destiny doesn't strike me as the kind of game that would appeal to them.

So like, 5% @_@ ?

 

[zewone]

I guess the ladies have better taste in games then you.

Does every Destiny thread need to turn into the echo chamber of ignorance?

OP, there's a few women players who are mainstays in DestinyGAF. Videogames in general always tend to be more male oriented. Not surprising about the ratio at all.

 

[Morrigan Stark]

Giving her screen name away to strangers isn't cool, bro.

lmao, good one

 

[inky]

I've never come across a female player in any online game.

MMOs are filled with them. My LOTRO guild leader was a girl. She was great too.

 

[mollipen]

So what's going on here? Is Destiny 100% male much like CoD? Are the handful of people I met refusing or not using a mic actually women who don't want to get harassed? Am I, or my (adult, married/girlfriended/parent) male friends jerks on the mic?

COD is definitely not 100% male. As you hinted at, because of the kinds of communities that usually build up around such games, female players don't always announce themselves or do things that might get them attention.

 

[Alchemist]

Welcome to online gaming.

 

[tebunker]

So after four months of playing Destiny, and reaching a friends list on my PS4 in excess of 100 people, I have encountered... zero women. Nada. Zilch. Zero.

Not one single person I found online, on a forum, on a matchmaking site, in-game, a friend of a friend, or in a random party has been a woman playing Destiny.

In fact I think the sum total of non-masculine voices coming over the mic was a few party member's wives or girlfriends chatting in the background.

So what's going on here? Is Destiny 100% male much like CoD? Are the handful of people I met refusing or not using a mic actually women who don't want to get harassed? Am I, or my (adult, married/girlfriended/parent) male friends jerks on the mic?

Hmm interesting experience, but I can say that every time I play Destiny I can say with 100% certainty that one of the members of my fireteam is a female. My wife.

We don't play with voice chat on, haven't raided yet, but I am interested to see if our experiences match.


I am pretty sure it's just you though.

 

[naeS]

The OP of the Destiny Beta thread is female.

 

[Kandrick]

I've never come across a female player in any online game.

Back when i played Everquest (99-04) we had quite a few woman, including mothers, which was pretty cool considering we were a top raiding guild. Oh and most of them played Cleric too, or a type of healer.

 

[Rogue_Ledr]

I've met a few women playing, but we're talking enough to count on one hand with fingers to spare.

 

[Portugeezer]

The OP of the Destiny Beta thread is female.

So there you have it OP, females do play Destiny.

 

[bananafactory]

Many of my mmo guilds had a fairly healthy male/female balance in the ranks, and voice chat was the better for it. Often it was families too, sometimes across generations, which was quite cool (fun to raid with mom and dad one night, then rag on their son when he's stuck on some fight with his other group).

MMOs are filled with them. My LOTRO guild leader was a girl. She was great too.

Back when i played Everquest, we had quite a few woman, including mothers, which was pretty cool considering we were a top raiding guild. Oh and most of them played Cleric.

ITT I learned all the female gamers are playing MMOs

 

[Carl]

2 of the people i regularly play with are female.

 

[jesu]

There is chick from on here who did a few of the official threads, Dax something or other.
She must be pretty active.

 

[zewone]

There is chick from on here who did a few of the official threads, Dax something or other.
She must be pretty active.

She quit GAF.

 

[naeS]

So there you have it OP, females do play Destiny.

And numerous Official Topics after release.

She quit GAF.

I noticed the username was different, but I recognized the tag. Sad.

 

[SystemBug]

She quit GAF.

how do you even quit GAF?

 

[FluxWaveZ]

how do you even quit GAF?

By being melodramatic.

 

[Zemm]

I guess the ladies have better taste in games then you.

Haha damn