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[SlimySnake]

You dont want a woman who plays games. My wife once got addicted to FTL and it was impossible trying to get her to do anything else for a few weeks. It was like I had married an absentee wife.

Thanks but no thanks.

 

[Northeastmonk]

It isn’t always amazing. It’s better than being anti-game. What I mean is: my wife likes MMOs like Guild Wars. She loves Ubisoft games. She enjoys simulators. She hates FPS and horror games. After a couple hours of Diablo IV she is incredibly bored. We game together sometimes, but not often. It’s mainly because she hates watching people play games and we don’t share the same taste.

There has to be a balance. You play when your spouse doesn’t feel 2nd to video games. I’ve had to handle everything because she wanted to play. I’ve never done that to her and I buy/play way more than she does. I’m not mad. Again, it’s awesome that she accepts gaming rather than dismissing it completely.

SlimySnake my wife was like that with Harry Potter and any Ubisoft games. She’s like “you handle everything, I just want to play”. I’m like, “ok, that’s cool”. I’d rather not rock the boat. I would never ever tell her that. Personally, I love being around the kids.

 

[Tams]

she’s got AC Shadows preordered

 

[HJuggernaut]

better shot at winning the lottery than finding a woman that likes videogames unless she has a lot of psychological baggage.

 

[Hohenheim]

My gf was not into games when we met, but now (almost 8 years later) she's playing lots of stuff. It started with her playing through Mario Odyssey on her own, and now she's playing hardcore stuff like Hollow Knight (which she finished!) and Binding of Isaac. She even recommended me a game I hadn't heard about last year! (Minutes of Island)

 

[No BBC=Anger]

With these threads, it's all about 'don't hide it', 'be upfront' about dudes sweating bullets about their partners finding the Steam Deck tucked away in some drawer out in the garage. Think about history and guys leading double lives with two families and going back and forth between the two and having a career. Maybe even a few hobbies. Imagine how exhausting all that sounds.

You got this.

 

[Vaquilla]

My girlfriend is a way more hardcore gamer than me.

I'll play like an hour of games a night after work. She'll sit down and spend 8 hours straight on Final Fantasy 14 or World of Warcraft.

When we first met, one of the first things we bonded over was that we both liked games like Bayonetta and Astral Chain.

 

[Danknugz]

girls who truly are into gaming and take good care of themselves are rare. the next best thing is finding a girl who is tangentially related to gaming i.e her brother was a gamer growing up or something like that, in which case she'll tolerate your gaming and maybe play some mario kart with you once in a while.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

I see at least 5 "would's".

Now we know why body count doesn’t bother you.

 

[Dutchy]

I see at least 5 "would's".

you bi? cause there's not even 5 women on that pic

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

They exist, not so sure you would want to date one

The first one will kill you in your sleep.
The others could really not even be human under all that makeup.

Never actually met a woman into video games. I played It Takes Two with a fully adult woman who doesn’t game. It took four or five sessions, and I had to do some parts for her. And it was fun. But I virtually never mention games with women unless they’re my friends’s partners, or unless they ask me if I play games. The latter is usually because they want to vent about their spouses’s gaming habits. A colleague of mine once told me about that one night when her bf (later husband) was playing online with friends and screaming into the mic at 2 AM. That’s when she asked me if I play video games. Otherwise, it’s a no-no subject with women. And frankly, I’d be highly aware of a woman who is really into gaming. It’s not something I’ve ever been used to, and seeing the gamer girls that I see online, it’s fine as it is.

 

[Shaki12345]

you bi? cause there's not even 5 women on that pic

Read my post below..

 

[Shaki12345]

Now we know why body count doesn’t bother you.

When I was a young man I had a very low standard just to get sex quickly. That's where I racked up the numbers.

These days I have higher standards. But some of these were a "would" for sure back then.

 

[Braag]

My girlfriend likes games. She's quite picky though. She loves co op games. She liked AC Odyssey a lot and is currently playing through Witcher 3 cause she knows I love that game so much. She also liked Hogwarts Legacy. I think she likes Ubi style collecthatons... Smh...

 

[Idleyes]

Bruh, my wife a full-blown evangelical Christian, yeah, I’m talkin’ speaking in tongues, miracle healings, and three-hour worship sessions with folks crying ugly like a kid who dropped a lollipop after one lick. She married a straight laced gaming heathen. I honestly don't know how we've managed 21 years of this shit, but her being hot helps.

 

[Codes 208]

girls who truly are into gaming and take good care of themselves are rare. the next best thing is finding a girl who is tangentially related to gaming i.e her brother was a gamer growing up or something like that, in which case she'll tolerate your gaming and maybe play some mario kart with you once in a while.

Tbf guys who are truly into gaming and take good care of themselves are also equally rare.

Have you ever been to a convention? Or a game shop? I can still smell the cheetos and BO

 

[Valonquar]

It's easy to fall for the trap of a girl SAYING she likes games, but really means puzzle games on her phone, and finds something like a FROM game to be the pinnacle of boredom.

 

[Danknugz]

Tbf guys who are truly into gaming and take good care of themselves are also equally rare.

Have you ever been to a convention? Or a game shop? I can still smell the cheetos and BO

true but guys can pull girls for different reasons, for example you can be ugly/fat and be loaded and still score certain kinds of chicks. not that i'm paying attention to dudes though

 

[fran.fernandez]

I prefer when they like to cook and play in the kitchen .

Actually my wife do like. she study pastry and Asian food ( in Japan), love her food . morning smell so good , home made bread almost everyday.

 

[awwr999999]

I've only met a few gamer girls that I found attractive. Gaming is a sedentary hobby and the participants look like it

It's all about expanding the gaming market and they want girls to game, for obvious reasons. The reality is that some skinny girls can 'get away with gaming' for a while when they're young but most girls are going to gain weight quick if they sit more and move less. The sedentary aspect of gaming's always going to tie it to overweight gamer girls. In terms of marketing they should focus on guys and much older girls that don't care about gaining weight and value the time sink aspect of gaming.

 

[Dioica]

It's all about expanding the gaming market and they want girls to game, for obvious reasons. The reality is that some skinny girls can 'get away with gaming' for a while when they're young but most girls are going to gain weight quick if they sit more and move less. The sedentary aspect of gaming's always going to tie it to overweight gamer girls. In terms of marketing they should focus on guys and much older girls that don't care about gaining weight and value the time sink aspect of gaming.

All of what you have said also applies to males, as someone else commented earlier. And there are plenty of gamers who play games and also find time to be active. Gamers who are so addicted that they have no time for anything else are on the whole going to be less attractive to others, and not only because they're more likely to be overweight / out of shape.

I used to spend all my time gaming and I actually lost a lot of weight because I wasn't eating. Immersing myself so fully in gaming caused me to become socially anxious then avoidant and to lose my social skills completely. I also didn't know how to cook and had no life skills. A person like that is not going to be attractive to many people.

Regarding your point about marketing, I think there is an overemphasis on marketing games towards women, and featuring them in gaming adverts. The fact is most women for whatever reason are not that interested in gaming, and I don't think that's going to change.

 

[The Sum of Zero]

Honestly, I'd just be happy if any woman I meet accepts my Gunpla hobby at this point.

 

[RoboFu]

Here is a secret no one tells you.

Women don't really like anything... ever. They only do things because they see other women doing it and " fuck them.. they think I can't do that?! ".

 

[Toons]

When I was a young man I had a very low standard just to get sex quickly. That's where I racked up the numbers.

These days I have higher standards. But some of these were a "would" for sure back then.

You probably got more pull than most people here then based on your disposition. Stand proud

 

[SaintALia]

Depends on 'interest in gaming at *some* level' is.

My wife is into Ludo, Mario Kart, and I finished two of the Resident Evil shooter games with her on the Wii in Co Op. Know lots of girls who were into Smash Bros, know a fuckton who are into Farmville and those types of games. When I was heavy into playing MMOs, met lots of women....and men pretending to be women. My ex was a heavy MMO player, and my previous ex before her, me and her used to play Battlefield and Medal of Honour in the Computer labs.

Women and Men(traditional male/female I guess without getting into the weeds) typically gravitate towards different games I've noticed. So yeah, it's fairly easy to meet women who are into games, may be a bit harder to meet a woman into the sorts of games you are gonna be into. Gonna be harder to meet one that's actually pretty good at those games. Women don't tend to invest their egos in being good(or win) at videogames like men do. At least, not for the types of games men typically go for.

Funny enough, the women I've known that are really good at games(knew a pro Counterstrike chick and another Soul Cal chick-I'm talking top rank players), they dated men who were pretty much divorced from gaming. Just your typical bro type dudes.

But it's fairly easy to get women into games(generally speaking). Getting them to be into it like you are, should never be your goal though.

 

[Dioica]

Women and Men(traditional male/female I guess without getting into the weeds) typically gravitate towards different games I've noticed. So yeah, it's fairly easy to meet women who are into games, may be a bit harder to meet a woman into the sorts of games you are gonna be into. Gonna be harder to meet one that's actually pretty good at those games. Women don't tend to invest their egos in being good(or win) at videogames like men do. At least, not for the types of games men typically go for.

Definitely. I feel like women broadly like RPGs, especially story-based ones (Baldur's Gate 3, any of the BioWare games from when they were actually good), and men tend to enjoy strategy games like Civ or XCom a lot more than women do. It makes sense if you believe that women on the whole are more interested in people, relationships and social interaction.