Great poll, but the last question was hard! Only five??!!
Poll: Demographics and Gaming Style [Update: Results are in]
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#77
Posté 13 juillet 2014 - 11:00
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Great poll, but the last question was hard! Only five??!!
Heh, I actually easily picked a top 4 and then kinda got stuck in "some of these are also nice, but not as nice as the other 4, should I stop here?" mode.
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#79
Posté 13 juillet 2014 - 11:02
adorkable-panda
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Hahah this was a lot harder than i thought it was going to be.
#80
Posté 13 juillet 2014 - 11:05
Grieving Natashina
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Done and I'm wondering what the results will be. 
Heh, I actually easily picked a top 4 and then kinda got stuck in "some of these are also nice, but not as nice as the other 4, should I stop here?" mode.
You too?
#81
Posté 13 juillet 2014 - 11:10
Plague Doctor D.
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Done.
When can we expect to see the results?
#84
Posté 13 juillet 2014 - 11:22
Celtic Latino
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Filled it out. Will be very interesting to see the results!
#85
Posté 13 juillet 2014 - 11:35
Amaror
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I'm of the opinion that categorizing games into male games and female games is pretty much BS. There is nothing inherent about what sort of media a person enjoys (not by gender, anyway). Socially, we condition people towards certain things: I.E. women are supposed to like romances and men are supposed to like blowing things up. Sometimes people go along with that, sometimes they fit it naturally, and sometimes they don't.
For instance, I've seen this thing where people will say something like, "Women don't like fighting games. My girlfriend doesn't like Soul Calibur or Dead or Alive or Tekken."
But did they ever consider that all three of those games have lady characters that are ridiculously sexualized and could possibly make a lot of women uncomfortable? That's not to say some women don't like them, just that it's clear who they're marketed towards and are downright repellent to many because of it. So maybe a fighting game comes along that actually doesn't do what the examples above do - some women still aren't going to go for it because they're either expecting the same as always or their experiences have left a bad taste in their mouth in general.
As for Dragon Age and Bioware games in general...they do a pretty good job of not actively repelling those not a part of the traditional demographic (15-35 white straight cis men), though I don't think they're perfect. They offer a wide range of things people like: romance, story, combat, customization. But I've seen plenty of men and women profess affection for all of those things.
Welllll......
at the risk of being burned at the stake here i will have to disagree.
Women and men are different, not only in biology, but also in general interest.
HOWEVER that doesn't mean that you can't enjoy something that isn't aimed towards your gender.
That's the great thing about humans. While there are many similarities between us and there are some things that are more popular with certain genders, we are all completely unique. MOST women might like The Sims more than a fighting Game. Most, but not all.
And while your example of fighting games makes sense, how would you explain other genres were there are more men than women.
There is a lot of sexism in fighting games but there are also more male shooter fans than female shooter fans.
Going the other way around, how do you explain that The Sims is mostly played by female players? There most certainly are male players that play the sims once in a while, i am one of them, but there aren't that many. And The Sims is in no way offensive to male players so there is not other explanation for the great number of female players, other than that women are just generally more interested in Sim-like games.
That's not a bad thing, it's true for absolutly everything. It's true for movies, books and yes, for video games too.
Generally men and women like different stuff, but we can also like things that most people of our gender don't.
And we are currently moving more and more in the direction were our general interests coincide more and more with each other, which is great too.
We should revel in our differences and celebrate our similarities instead of fighting over what is better or worse.
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#86
Posté 13 juillet 2014 - 11:40
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Done.
When can we expect to see the results?
We'll see. Hopefully on Thursday.
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#89
Posté 14 juillet 2014 - 12:08
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Done.
Er, you're not going to hold me to my First Inquisitor, right?
Because I can see myself running 3 simultaneous combos of Qunari/Dwarf Rogue/Mage (Dwarves don't Mage) until I decide who to finish with first ...
#90
Posté 14 juillet 2014 - 12:19
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Welllll......
at the risk of being burned at the stake here i will have to disagree.
Women and men are different, not only in biology, but also in general interest.
That's just the problem. Many people who will fight tooth-and-nail for the girl-pink-boy-blue dichotomy. It's become an odd sort of truth in our behaviors, but... it's not biological. It arose out of the rise in colored textiles in the 1920s. During that time, there was considerable debate as to whether boys should be pink, or maybe girls should be green. Generations later, it's become a firm social expectation that females should like pink, and males who like pink must be gay or something.
More importantly, it has become engrained at a fundamental behavioral level, such that it's virtually impossible to separate from something that isn't biological. I will borrow a similar example of social expectation from Brant Wenegrat's Theater of Disorder:
Of course, medicine is more than theater, and its theatrical elements often take a back seat to practical concerns. But theater is still present, and often dominant. It is especially prominent in the history of illnesses described in this book. For example, the book jacket shows Andre Pierre Brouillet's painting of Jean-Martin Charcot, a nineteenth-century neurologist. Charcot was a dramatist and stage director par excellence. His carefully directed clinical demonstrations, one of which is shown here, were attended not only by doctors but also by artists and intellectuals from throughout Europe. Brouillet depicted Charcot standing before an audience. Next to him, a swooning, partially undressed woman is supported by two attendants. The woman depicted is Blanche Wittman, one of Charcot's so-called grand hysterics (see chapter 5). Her behavior, including her swoon, conformed to an illness role directed by Charcot and his colleagues in the Salpêtrière, the Parisian women's asylum. Today's patients do not swoon in lecture halls because we do not expect them to, or give them cues to do so.
You should also follow the link to see the image. It's important to remember that people play roles in society. Supporting gender roles as "celebrating differences" is more likely to be perpetuating learned stereotypes than considering any kind of biological difference or personal decision.
//EDIT: Well, crap, delselecting made it post. Editing in rest of post now...
//EDIT 2: Fixed.
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#91
Posté 14 juillet 2014 - 12:27
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Final question of only five? All the ones I didn't pick could have tied for fifth place. 
#92
Posté 14 juillet 2014 - 12:34
Aeterna
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Done, will be interesting to see the results.
#93
Posté 14 juillet 2014 - 12:47
Nimlowyn
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Done! I hope you will post the results; I am interested to see them.
Curiously, though I do enjoy the content, I found of your list, romance did NOT make my top five of things I'm looking most forward to in Inquisition. Though honestly it was difficult to choose any because I am so looking forward to it allllllllll.
#94
Posté 14 juillet 2014 - 12:55
Ekaterina
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Done. I'd like to see what people expect most from the DAI and how many women play in general. And also how many players there are from "other" countries.
#98
Posté 14 juillet 2014 - 02:20
Allaiya
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Completed. The last question was hard but one of my top 5 wasn't actually an option unless it would fall under story I guess.
It would have been player choice. Seeing player's decisions reflected in the world/story.
One of the reasons I love Bioware games.
Exploration is also something I'm looking forward to but didn't include it since I haven't experienced it before in a Bioware game & it's not the reason I pick up a Bioware title in the first place.
#99
Posté 14 juillet 2014 - 02:23
Devtek
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Probably should have made it "regions" instead of country due to the grouping of Europe.
Finished it btw, last one was like....ONLY 5!?!? Also gaming platform...i game on all of them :|
