One of our authors wrote this entry back an January six months ago, but apparently the article has hit a nerve with some of our readers. The '5 Commandments of what a female wants from games' is definitely opinionated, however maybe she needed 10 to get her point entirely across. We have included our own opinion above the column, and as she's a big time WoW fan, we felt her dialogue was exactly what most gamers would relate to.
The Outerhaven writes: While Steam has come out recently, stating that Steam accounts can't be transferred, we need to think about it since we all will eventually kick the bucket. But if Valve is denying transferring accounts, what can be done? Plenty, actually.
It goes to my kids because I gave them the passwords.
To Steam: Missio has a song that conveys my feelings about you stealing my purchase after I die. It's called "Middle Fingers"
Yeah worrying about digital ownership when you’re on the other side of the grass seems a little strange, but also on brand for these millennial journalists to worry about.
I suppose if I have kids, I'd just give em my account details by retirement age. If I die young then...idk lol.
Yea, I mean just give someone the password to your account. Is that difficult to do or something? Like, I’m legit asking because I don’t know.
It's not difficult but It's against the policy. If they find out, they will lock the account permanently.
Ah ok, I had a feeling there was something like that. It seems kind of weird that you can’t just hand your account over to a family member or friend and let them take over the account.
In an interview with Game Rant, senior game designer Brian Dowling shared just how much Mists of Pandaria Remix's Spell Gems will shake things up.
On 16 May, the long-awaited release of the PC version of Ghost of Tsushima took place. And the game proved to be a great success on the first day.
It has surpassed spider man now
it's 71k+
game did this with way shorter time than spider man.
@prince
I'm confused. Does that number mean total players at one time playing like a snapshot
or total sales? If it's the former that's not very accurate because I know I'm not the only person that buys games and plays them later and that number is not included.
Is this going to be the new thing thing? Articles about Steam reviews? Which of course was in response to the false article about the review bombings in the first place.
Hey, just a heads up that the new owners did open news to Steam updates, but we try our best to not allow them to go on daily updates unless relevant to some other news. I understand this isn't everyone's cup and tea and sympathize, but the door has been open. If you feel it's 'too much' please do PM me or submit a ticket to the mod team. Thank you.
I came here to post this link in that specific article. 84 perce t is pretty good. How many bad reviews were there like 5
I always get confused by this, but is 72k good sales numbers for a game? I keep seeing games fail at selling 2.5 million and that they need to be on multiple platforms but is an additional 72k adding much?
Im not sure how its confusing :\
72k actively playing. Not 72k sold.
A good example is Helldivers 2, 6m sold, 450k (at its peak) active players.
But how many swords swung is what we're all really waiting for.
for one they already had a huge launch on the playstation, they don't need to sell 5m to make the porting to pc profitable and as pointed out below that number you see is just the people playing it at this moment.
Also from the insomniac leak we know these PC ports are a quick turnaround and budgeted around $2-4 million. At 100k sales they break even including Steams cut. They may not sell millions but they are a great ROI
72k concurrent. That is a global number. People who bought the game are not playing at the same time because of timezones, working schedules, holidays, events... There is no good rule of thumb but you can extrapolate based on other games that also released sales data. Then it is clear that the PC release alone accounts for at least 500K copies sold on steam, maybe closer to 700-800K. Probably will sell over a million this extended weekend.
According to steamspy and other data gathering sites games like Days Gone, Spider Man, God Of War, Horizon Zero Dawn have sold 2 to 5 million copies on Steam. So I expect Ghost to reach similar numbers. Probably even surpass it.
Pretty good list. The depiction of women in game needs to be better.
Laura Croft?
Anyway, I'm a 'girl gamer' (not a title I particularly identify with) and mostly play single player games or just play with my mates, most of whom are male anyway. I'm not a FPS player really, so I haven't encountered much asshattery. Maybe I'm just lucky? I've certainly never been given any free stuff in MMO's on account of having boobs, which is a damn shame :( I love free stuff >_>
It's a good article and I agree with the points raised. I would love to see more stronger female characters. i'm not bothered by violence/sex in games if it's done well either, I really enjoyed the romantic subplots of Mass Effect 1/2 for instance as they focussed a lot on character relationships. I would love to see more of that!
I do somewhat disagree with Lara Croft being a bad role model though. Yeah, she's been groomed as eye-candy, but discounting the recent remake, she's strong, tough and in control of her life. Even Bayonetta, who seems to raise more eyebrows amongst male gamers than female gamers, is a great gaming character as she is also tough, skilled and owns her own sexuality.
Characters are getting better, although yes, I would love to see more female main characters too.
Everyone has different tastes... But this list just sounds like things everyone wants more of in a game.
If you want to say how a game is made make it yourself but don't tell everyone eles what to do and cry about it. If you believe in your idea go for it
I'm not sure how people are going to take this, but here goes...
A lot of Japanese games get bashed for treating women in a different way. But here's the problem, women are viewed a little different in different countries and there's no way to stop that. If you ever decide to argue about how women are treated in a game just take into consideration what country it's from and the intended audience.
(ex. Catherine was made for the Japanese audience) I'm pretty sure sometimes the audience for a game is not for the country it was made in... but I don't know much about other countries who are into game developing...