I don’t mean to dismiss you but I think a more relevant statistic would be for people in game development since it’s mostly creators, not consumers on scene.
With that said, I don’t think the ratio will be that different for developers and gamers, so maybe this was a pointless comment :D
Mm.. it's a bit different. I'm a female game dev working in one of my country's bigger studios, and I'm one of two women who touches code (aka, software engineer/developer). Out of the whole company of ~300 people, there are only ~50 women. Most of those are artists, designers, QA, production, audio, HR , or other higher ups in the company.
It's no secret that they're desperately trying to get more female engineers on board, but there's just a huge shortage of tech talent where I live, and a lot of women are driven off from game dev because of the reactions and treatment that are so typical of the environment. Even getting here, everything has been very male-dominated through my entire career; women in tech just aren't as common for countless reasons.
I'd love to see statistics for some of the really big companies, actually.
My personal experience going to a school in that field (now 20 years ago), back then, there were practically no girls there. Our school had 5 years, and in the first year, of 5 classes, only 2 had any girls at all. By the end, I think of the 2 classes finishing, there were only a handful girls in about 50-60 people. So I think it is still no wonder there are so few female engineers around.
I honestly don't know why so few girls choose a tech career. At least where I live, there is nothing preventing them from doing it. The only thing I could imagine is the "social norm" or peer pressure from their friends in middle school, to just choose a more social or non-tech school later on.
It's the sexism, honestly. I cannot tell you how many times I've been passed over, talked over, belittled, and mocked for being a woman in tech. I have a lot of support from half of the industry, but from the other... well. I've been told to make sure I stay behind the man because he should always be walking into a room first. I've been ignored by coworkers. I've been screamed at by my boss in a way he only ever did to women. I've been seated in a boss's office for him to leer at me whilst lecturing me over nothing because he wanted to stare.
That, and then the pay gap... It's unsurprising. There's so much sexism in the industry and there's even more for someone young trying to get into it - both with the social pressure, as you mentioned, to do something else, and the general rude bollocks of 'girls can't code'. I'm so proud of all the young female devs I see starting to get into tech.
personally I disagree the happy ending should exist in the form of giving up not in winning and beating the corps but even in the base game I went with the rogue ending cause I didn't want any of the aldecaldos to get hurt but then it decides for me my character took over the afterlife and neglected judy why didn't I after getting Johnny out of my head and winning my few months just leave night city with judy and the aldecaldos like in that ending why can I not just get my few months and that's it it's not much of a win or even a major happy ending but why on earth is there no choice to not have anyone die and just go in as the borderline cyberpsycho you are kill smasher then just leave and live those few months you have left the best you can
I hate it cause it's annoying takes more time and is unnecessary and I've never understood it it's some stupid game someone invented ages ago and now everyone's brainwashed themselves into going along with it there's plenty of languages that don't have punctuation and they're fine but magically when we don't have it some people get their knickers in a twist and no I don't work and I don't have any issue communicating with most people just every month or 2 some random person gets really bothered by it for some reason and feels the need to moan at me about it but like 99% of people just do not care and I don't think even notice
So you just arbitrarily decided you want to make it harder for other people to interact with you, to bring down the quality of content here, just to feel special or something? It's just going to get you blocked, nothing more.
k go ahead I'm not trying to feel special it's not some gimmick I decided on for attention this is just how I write I've written this way my entire life I just refuse to use it the internet doesn't have to be some perfectly formatted essay I'm not bringing down any quality you sanctimonious moron just get over yourself
You're free to make comments how you please in regards to punctuation, but please remember that one of the core values of Beehaw is to Be(e) Nice to others. Calling someone a sanctimonious moron does not fit that ethos.
From what I read it isn't on PC for some reason. Also they moved a bunch of vehicles behind a real money paywall? You can keep them if you already own them but if not gotta pay real money.
This might be against the grain but as an avid overwatch player I don't think overwatch needs to be inundated with content to stay alive, I think it'd be far healthier for them to make the existing content enjoyable. They have enough heroes, they have enough maps. They should be polishing those heroes and maps (which they did do this season, the changes to watchpoint are really good but the map was already really good, they need to focus on fixing things that are terrible lol).
It isn't about keeping it alive or improving the game, it's about milking the idiots who keep shelling out money and defending battlepasses + mtx, once the money runs out they'll just kill it and move on.
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