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[Feena.c]

Hey everyone. I'm working on a research paper about gaming Millennials (People born from approximately the early 1980's to the early 2000's, and who play computer games to some extent) and how this group views games and the gaming environment in relation to race, gender, and sexuality.
This paper is meant to report on the state of Millennials in relation to these topics and in no way to make any sort of qualitative judgements about the opinions expressed by Millennials.
(In basic, that means I'm not comparing any of the opinions I recieve to my own opinions or any sort of standard of right or wrong, I'm just collecting data and stating the results)

So if you have a few minutes and are interested in this topic(s) please take the time to fill out this survey.
If you are not comfortable posting your responses in a public place or have any questions you can send me a PM and answer/ask them that way or ask me for my email to send your responses to me.
If you are not comfortable with certain questions you may skip them, you do not have to fill out the entire survey.

Please be aware that by answering this survey I am assuming your permission to possibly cite your opinions as primary sources for my paper.
Thank you very much for your time!

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Millennial Gamers and Tolerance Survey

1.      
Preferred Name:

(If you put nothing here I’ll just use your tag/forum
handle/url if I cite your opinions)

2.      
Year of Birth:

(To qualify as a Millennial this date should be between 1980
and 2000)

3.      
If you are comfortable doing so please state
your race and/or gender, and/or sexual orientation.


(If you are not comfortable stating one or all of these items you may skip them, but it would be very helpful for me to sort your responses if you answer)

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Please give a rating from 1-5 for the following questions,
with 1 being Strongly Agree[/b] and 5
being Strongly Disagree[/b]

1.      
Games in general are respectful of all races, genders,
and sexual orientations ____

2.      
The gaming community is respectful of all races,
genders, and sexual orientations ____

3.      
The gaming community is a comfortable place for
me ____

4.      
Games influence how society thinks about
race/gender/sexuality ____

5.      
Games have more Caucasian, male, straight
protagonists than other people types ____

6.      
The gaming community is largely made up of
Caucasian males ___

7.      
The gaming community is becoming more diverse
____

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Please answer the following questions as 1-3 with 1 being MORE
likely to play the game, 2 being NO EFFECT on if you play the game, and 3 being
LESS likely to play the game.

1.      
A game has a Female protagonist ___

2.      
A game has an African American protagonist ___

3.      
A game has a Homosexual Protagonist ___

4.      
A game has a Character Creator where you can be
male/female and any ethnicity, but you MUST be straight ____

5.      
A game has a Character Creator where you can be
male/female and any ethnicity, and you can be straight, bi, or homosexual ____

6.      
A game has proportionally more non-Caucasian
NPCs____

7.      
A game has proportionally more female NPCs ___


8.      
A game has proportionally more NPCs who are not[/b] straight ___

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The following questions are open-ended opinion questions.
You may answer as briefly or as comprehensively as you desire.

1.      
How do you feel games portray characters that
are not[/b] Caucasian?

 

2.       How do
you feel games portray characters that are not[/b]
male?

 



3.      
How do you feel games portray characters that
are not [/b]straight?

 

4.      
How do you feel the gaming community treats
people who are not straight, Caucasian males?




 

5.      
Do you think games[/b] have improved over time in their treatment of all people
types, or not? Do any types stand out as being treated differently now than in
the past to you?

 

6.      
Do you think the gaming community[/b] has changed at all over time in how it treats all
people types, or not? Do any types stand out as being treated differently now
than in the past to you?

 

 

7.      
Please list any games you know of with
protagonists who are not/do not have to be Caucasian, straight males (Games which
allow you to create your protagonist from a set of options should be listed as:
CC game; CC meaning Character Creator).

 

 

8.      
Please include any thoughts or opinions here
which you feel are relevant but which were not addressed by a question in this
survey.

Modifié par Feena.c, 21 novembre 2013 - 01:00 .

[Cyonan]

1. Cyonan
2. 1989
3. Male, straight

1. 4
2. 4
3. 2
4. 3
5. 1
6. 4
7. 1

1. 2
2. 2
3. 2
4. 2
5. 2
6. 2
7. 2
8. 2

1. Overall, not too good. A lot of games feel like they have that one token <insert non Caucasian race here> person just for the sake of being able to say they included them. Often these characters are poorly written and have little personality of their own.

The middle eastern people get the worst treatment of non Caucasians in my opinion, as they're very frequently the "faceless enemy" used in games these days(especially in modern military shooters).

The sad thing is that the best example I can think of of a middle eastern playable character is from 1994. A game called Uncharted Waters: New Horizons where one of the 6 playable characters is Ali Vezas, a Turkish merchant looking to find his lost sister.

2. This one is a mixed bag. You've got a pretty solid number of good examples of women in video games but at the same time a lot of very bad examples.

The main issue with how video games are portraying them is that they often can show women as something to be "won" by completing some achievement or defeating some boss. You also run into cases where the developers end up thinking that the target audience wont want to play as a woman so they make the main character male. If I recall right, this was the case for Bioshock Infinite.

3. I can't even recall too many examples of this, but what I can recall it's generally quite bad. They're typically very stereotypical portrayals of non straight people.

4. Generally very poorly. Most people I knew who wasn't straight didn't tell most people, especially if they were a guy. I've also known a number of women who pretended to be a guy just so they wouldn't get harassed or constantly hit on.

5. Overall I would say there has been an improvement, which in my opinion has been largely for women more so than anybody else. I remember the days when women in video games was basically the princess needing to be rescued by Mario and these days we have fully fleshed out female characters.

6. In my experience not really. The online gaming community as a whole can be an extremely hostile place even if you are a Caucasian male, much less anything else.

7. To be honest, this would be a pretty long list if I put down everything that lets you be female, not straight, or not Caucasian so I'll just list a few of my more favourite ones:

- Uncharted Waters: New Horizons(Choice of 6 characters)
- Borderlands Series(Choice of 4 characters)
- Fire Emblem series(Large number of varied characters, latest one lets you create your own avatar)
- Most MMOs use CCs
- Elder Scrolls + Fallout series(CC)
- Tomb Raider(Female only)
- Mass Effect + Dragon Age series(CC)
- Mirror's Edge(Female only)

8. For me personally, what I care about with characters in video games is if they're well written and if the things they do, say, and wear all match what that character is supposed to be about. I am not a fan of doing things like including a female character that only exists so you can say you have a female character.

As far as playable characters go, I have no issues with playing a non Caucasian or even female character despite my being a straight Caucasian male, although I do know that there is a belief(either true or not) that a lot of men don't want to play as a female character.

Among games with character creators I tend to have a character in mind that I'm going to play with a personality and backstory. I'm roughly 50/50 on the number of men and women in my created characters. I also have both a female assassin and male paladin who are reoccurring characters for me.

[Kidd]

1.
Preferred Name: Emma

2.
Year of Birth: 1985

3.
If you are comfortable doing so please state
your race and/or gender, and/or sexual orientation.
Caucasian, female, bisexual


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1.
Games in general are respectful of all races, genders,
and sexual orientations _4__

2.
The gaming community is respectful of all races,
genders, and sexual orientations _4__

3.
The gaming community is a comfortable place for
me _2__

4.
Games influence how society thinks about
race/gender/sexuality _1__

5.
Games have more Caucasian, male, straight
protagonists than other people types _1__

6.
The gaming community is largely made up of
Caucasian males _3_

7.
The gaming community is becoming more diverse
_2__

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1.
A game has a Female protagonist _1_

2.
A game has an African American protagonist _1_

3.
A game has a Homosexual Protagonist _1_

4.
A game has a Character Creator where you can be
male/female and any ethnicity, but you MUST be straight _1__

5.
A game has a Character Creator where you can be
male/female and any ethnicity, and you can be straight, bi, or homosexual _1__

6.
A game has proportionally more non-Caucasian
NPCs_1__

7.
A game has proportionally more female NPCs _1_


8.
A game has proportionally more NPCs who are not[/b] straight _1_

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The following questions are open-ended opinion questions.
You may answer as briefly or as comprehensively as you desire.

1.
How do you feel games portray characters that
are not[/b] Caucasian?

All too often the characters are not truly characters but stereotypes. It seems disturbingly common that when a developing studio designs and writes a character, they will default them to be of caucasian race. If there is a specific reason they want a non-caucasian character, such as a pretty short-sighted desire to be more inclusive, the character stops being thought of as a character first but rather becomes a race first. The character is then crafted out of the mold that is race, meaning it will more often than not be shock-full of stereotypes.

If you're lucky, there's some semblance of actual character in there.

2. How do
you feel games portray characters that are not[/b]
male?

All too often the characters are not truly characters but stereotypes. It seems disturbingly common that when a developing studio designs and writes a character, they will default them to be a cisgendered male. If there is a specific reason they want a non-cisman character, such as giving straight men a hot thing to look at, the character stops being thought of as a character first but rather becomes female first. The character is then crafted out of the mold that is her gender, meaning she will more often than not be shock-full of stereotypes and/or wish-fulfilment for straight men - a character the developer imagines these men will want to have intercourse with.



3.
How do you feel games portray characters that
are not [/b]straight?

I've played way too few games that even have non-straight characters to feel it's fair to answer this question. I suppose you could say they're mostly portrayed as inexistant?

4.
How do you feel the gaming community treats
people who are not straight, Caucasian males?

You can definitely find communities where you're welcome, but if you don't cherry pick and just go for any random place, it's all too likely you'll have a bad experience and meet racist and sexist remarks - sometimes even daily. That doesn't mean the risk is absolutely overwhelming, but it's way past what a person should need to be prepared for. It goes far beyond having "thick skin."




5.
Do you think games[/b] have improved over time in their treatment of all people
types, or not? Do any types stand out as being treated differently now than in
the past to you?

I think we're making progress. Baby steps, but that's still walking, right? I've played more non-caucasian and non-male characters in just the last few months than I did for years when I grew up. But there's still a long, long way to go. The collective industry doesn't get to pat itself on the back just yet (though some individual developing houses sure are entitled to).

6.
Do you think the gaming community[/b] has changed at all over time in how it treats all
people types, or not? Do any types stand out as being treated differently now
than in the past to you?

I do not think I have the insight to answer this from any other perspective than the female-gendered one, because I hold too much privilege to really see this properly. But I notice that while women have always tended to get treated like untalented newbies (while men don't get assumed to be anything), there is a lot more open misogyny nowadays. Just these past few years there's been a somewhat radical shift what with the whole "fake geek girl" thing that keeps popping up.

There's some kind of very destructive group think going around that women who game are not legitimately interested in the games, which is a concept I frankly hadn't ever heard until just a few years ago.



7.
Please list any games you know of with
protagonists who are not/do not have to be Caucasian, straight males (Games which
allow you to create your protagonist from a set of options should be listed as:
CC game; CC meaning Character Creator).

Beyond Good and Evil
Borderlands series
Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
Jade Empire
Journey
Metroid series
Mirror's Edge
Remember Me
The Walking Dead
Tomb Raider series
(CC) Baldur's Gate series
(CC) Dragon Age series
(CC) Fallout series
(CC) Fire Emblem: Awakening
(CC) Knights of the Old Republic series
(CC) Saint's Row series
(CC) The Elder Scrolls series

Tons more too, but those are the ones out of the games that come to my mind instantly and/or are installed on my PC at the moment.

[LePetitRobot]

I'm too old <_<

But giving you a bump because I learnt a new word (Millenial)! 

[FeralEwok]

1. Preferred Name:  Corey
2. Year of Birth: 1990
3. White, male, and straight.

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Please give a rating from 1-5 for the following questions,

with 1 being Strongly Agree[/b] and 5

being Strongly Disagree[/b]


1. Games in general are respectful of all races, genders, and sexual orientations  __3__

2.  The gaming community is respectful of all races, genders, and sexual orientations __4__

3. The gaming community is a comfortable place for me __2__

4. Games influence how society thinks about race/gender/sexuality __5__

5. Games have more Caucasian, male, straight protagonists than other people types __1__

6. The gaming community is largely made up of Caucasian males __3__

7.  The gaming community is becoming more diverse __2__

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Please answer the following questions as 1-3 with 1 being MORE likely to play the game, 2 being NO EFFECT on if you play the game, and 3 being LESS likely to play the game.

1.  A game has a Female protagonist __2__
 
2. A game has an African American protagonist __2__

3. A game has a Homosexual Protagonist __2__

4. A game has a Character Creator where you can be male/female and any ethnicity, but you MUST be straight __2__

5. A game has a Character Creator where you can be male/female and any ethnicity, and you can be straight, bi,
or homosexual __2__

6.  A game has proportionally more non-Caucasian NPCs__2__

7.  A game has proportionally more female NPCs __1__

(Helloooo ladies)

8.   A game has proportionally more NPCs who are not[/b] straight __2__

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The following questions are open-ended opinion questions.

You may answer as briefly or as comprehensively as you
desire.

1.  How do you feel games portray characters that are not Caucasian?

Games in which the characters’ race is not something that determines their behavior or personality, seem to handle portraying said characters tend to do fine.  Those are in the majority and often times go without any notice as they are doing things right. The fewer and far less successful portrayals of non- Caucasian characters,
however, receives more attention.

2.  How do you feel games portray characters that are not male?

Not as well as they could, but it’s getting better. It’s becoming more and more inclusive. Some developers that make games with a female or male protagonist seem to have a large effect on female players as they are able to immerse themselves in a game as a proper protagonist without any hindrance due to gender. These go a long way in just not making any sort of big deal about differences in men and women. Games that too aggressively try to disrupt gender stereotypes or games that reinforce an attitude that is either indifferent or against proper treatment of female characters, take me out of the game, unless it’s intentional from a story standpoint.  

3. How do you feel games portray characters that
are not straight?  

There are far fewer examples of game characters that are not straight or that I cannot recollect. Those I do recall
range from having their sexual orientation being of little to no importance to those that are nothing more than the butt of a bad homosexual joke. So again like the above questions, there are games a few games that do it right, a few that do it really wrong, and a majority that either ignore it all together or just don’t go strongly one way or another.

4.  How do you feel the gaming community treats people who are not straight, Caucasian males? 

There’s a loud minority that is overly hostile towards non Caucasians straight males, and I really do believe it’s a loud minority. Most gamers I’ve encountered outside a competitive online shooter tend to be far less aggressive
and far more considerate of people from differing backgrounds. More gamers group together to defend an abuse against someone of a minority group, than they do attack one.

5.   Do you think games[/b] have improved over time in their treatment of all people types, or not? Do any types stand out as being treated differently now than in the past to you?

Unless you’re from the middle-east and stuck in a modern military shooter? Sure it’s gotten better over the past 10-20 years. There’s a very active movement, some going about it in right or wrong ways, to elevate women’s positions in games from helpless NPCs to the leading roles. Games like Mass Effect have increasingly focused more attention in advertising or even just acknowledging the importance of characters like FemShep.

6.   Do you think the gaming community[/b] has changed at all over time in how it treats all people types, or not? Do any types stand out as being treated differently now than in the past to you?

The aggressive nature of online player vs player games bring out the worst in people in general. Their quickness to use a person’s gender, sexual orientation, or anything that is not our typical majority  is more of a reflection on an individual’s ignorance as opposed to games promoting such behavior. For the most part I think awareness is at an all time high and people are far more alert and prone to take action against violators. Could always improve to the point where no one is targeted, but I don’t see that ever going away.

7.     

Please list any games you know of with protagonists who are not/do not have to be Caucasian, straight males (Games which allow you to create your protagonist from a set of options
should be listed as: CC game; CC meaning Character Creator).

(CC)Saints Row Series 1-4 (probably most extensive CC in
what all you can let a character be)

(CC) Mass Effect Series

(CC) Dragon Age Series (extends it even to different species)

(CC) Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 1-2

(CC) Star Wars: The Old Republic (allows for different
species)

(CC) Fallout Series

(CC) The Elder Scrolls Series (allows for different species)

(CC) Guild Wars 1-2 (allows for different species)

(CC) XCom series

(CC) Baldur’s Gate Series

Boderlands Series

Telltale’s The Waking Dead

Mirror’s Edge

Tomb Raider Series

Remember Me

Portions of The Last of Us

Several GTA games

Sleeping Dogs

There’s a far more extensive list but these are what come to
mind.

Modifié par FeralEwok, 24 novembre 2013 - 10:00 .

[Naughty Bear]

I would love to answer the questions but my attention span unfortunately, encountered numerous issues.

[Feena.c]

Thanks to all of you who responded!
The first draft of this paper has been reviewd with positive results from my teacher. Final draft is done and being turned in this Thursday.
If you are interested in reading the paper please contact me and I will give you a copy via email.
You can email me at feena.c@gmail.com

Thank you again!

[Lotion Soronarr]

1.
2. 1981
3. Male, Caucassian

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1. 3
2. 3
3. 3
4. 4
5. 2
6. 4
7. 2

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1. 2
2. 2
3. 3
4. 2
5. 2
6. 2
7. 2
8. 3

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1. Depends on the game
2. same as a bove
3. same as above
4. depends on the specific community
5. Not seeing a big change. Games were never really concerned with race/sex to begin with.
6. Hard to say. Gaming comunities are bigger and more connencted now, so comparisons are difficult.
7. Most western RPGs and tons of other games - especialy lodler ones, when one doesn't even have to be human.



Most games developers aren't thinking at all about race/sex issues, an thus I consider most games to be "innocently pure" in that regard.
There is no malice or ill intent - just a desire to make a fun product. Frankly, overthinking the problem can cause more harm than good.
Just make a fun game. I don't care about the rest.

[Dovahzeymahlkey]

what are your results and your opinions on the tumbrite sjw plague 2years after your research?

[mybudgee]

[A Crusty Knight Of Colour]

Lol weird bump to make.

[Decepticon Leader Sully]

Not going to lie i'm tempted.

[Dovahzeymahlkey]

anybody tried contacting OPs email?

[BioWareMod01]

This thread is being closed due to unproductive necro.