Top games in South Africa

JP'S said:
OMG dude EVERYTIME why? Its a FACT that most girls don't like action type games/movies they would much rather go watch sex in the city then die hard 3. Likewise with games most women would prefer The sims series over the call of duty series... And go read again I SAID MOST not all of them....

This is a joke really.... If we don't have the same opinion about a subject its sexism, gawd I've had enough of your shit. And don't even bother replying to this post I'll add you on my ignore list as soon as I'm done :)
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Graal said:
Fact? Show me the figures then. If something is a fact then I'm assuming it's backed up by evidence.

By all means, add me to your ignore list because it doesn't seem like you either properly read or properly understand my posts anyway. :)

I ask why do you considering Sims a "girl's game" and you can't provide me with any answer other than guesswork and conjecture. I explore the logic; The Sims 3 is a game about managing a household, thus it is a girl's game because in general girls don't really have interests outside managing households. This is a view strongly ingrained into a patriarchal system of society.

That's all I'm doing, trying to engage you guys in critical discussion about things like these. Yet, it seems, every time one tries to have a discussion with people on MyG on a sensitive subject people immediately go on the offensive and it has to turn into a mud-slinging contest.
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Graal said:
Read up a bit about gender socialization and gender roles.

If two young children who have never been subjected to gender stereotypes such as 'boys shouldn't play with dolls' or 'boys shouldn't cry' or 'girls should be sensitive and gentle,' what do you think is going to happen when they both get presented with the same toy to play with?

Children assume certain gender roles not because they've got a genetic predisposition to them, but because that's what society teaches them from a young age.

An interesting study from a few years back had a couple standing on a busy sidewalk showing off their new-born to passing strangers. They told people it was a boy and people would say describe it as 'fierce', 'strong', 'active' etc. Later they started telling people it's a girl. The exact same infant, yet now people were describing it as 'gentle', 'meek,' 'dependent' etc.
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DCWarhound said:
You just proved my point that it's psychological.

A humans interests and behavior changes as they are subjected to different metal influence,if a boy and girl are both raised as girls then both would act girly until mid teens where the boy and girls hormones will kick but the girl will benefit as being more socially acceptable while the boy will either be bullied and become an outcast or he will develop a need to dominate those around him to accept him

Even if they are raised to be genderless they will learn from those around them on how to act and behave and they will most differently realize the difference between male and female.

I think this debate is becoming a tad to big for simply debating why Females like the Sims more then males.
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I don't mean to keep going on this... F*ck it.. Who'm I kiddin'... Course I do...
Anyway... I love how these 2 are always "sitting vas". Is lekker entertaining ma bru.

Annoyingly long to read (hence I skip most of it...) But a fun read.

Who needs books, when you have Graal and DCWarhound. :):p

/angry cat growl...
/dog bark...
nuff said.. :D
 
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Sims = seriously?? :wtf:

Same with Fifa etc every year, I mean how much can u change a soccer game every year? "whistling:
 
theunbal said:
i dont get Sims. apparently millions of other poeple do. i do not understand how so many copies are sold. ive tried playingit but were bored after 5 minutes.
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The Sims is a social game. Girls tend to prefer social gaming elements and you'll find the majority of their customer base is female.
 
Strifehart said:
Yet there is social interaction. If it wasn't for the MP (i.e. social) aspect of the game it wouldn't be as popular as it is.
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The interaction in cod games is quite different to that of the sims :P . In sims you dont have 12 year old retards screaming in their mic or people swearing at you every round.
 
The comments were really entertaining to read. Graal, though I don't always agree with the stuff that you post because everyone is entitled to their own opinion and no one's opinion outweighs that of another, you do tend to do your research on the topics you post on. Kudos.

As for the Sims being labelled as a girl's game: I can see why that happens. Every single girl I know has played the Sims quite extensively. But then again, so has every guy that I know. I think basically it just goes with the stereotype of being a girl and playing games. I don't really think that it is a girl's game. In fact, the only thing that can be said with absolute certainty after seeing the stats is that it is not popular amoung a specific gender, but that it is popular in South Africa. I would love to see a drill-down of the stats, but I don't know think any specific details will come out of them.
 
Strifehart said:
Yet there is social interaction. If it wasn't for the MP (i.e. social) aspect of the game it wouldn't be as popular as it is.
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Agreed. Sometimes (when I used to play Bf3) there would be more activity in the chatscreen, than there were in the Battlefield.
 
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