How important is it that your significant other enjoys Thief?

Sanctus Germanus on 3/3/2017 at 20:56

Quote Posted by Starker

I even have few friends who play games at all and nobody I know in real life has played Thief.

Idem. It's a lonely business out here.

slavatrumpevitch on 3/3/2017 at 21:10

Quote Posted by nickie

No worries about corroborating evidence but you might want to find a phrase other than 'stupid shit'.

I wasn't trying to be rude. I was just using that phrase to be consistent with Yandros' and Chk772's earlier posts.

nickie on 3/3/2017 at 21:43

I'm sure you weren't intending that. It's just good to be completely clear about what's being said.

Yandros on 3/3/2017 at 22:18

For the record, my wife's comment was said jokingly and not derisively. I'm sorry it kicked off a somewhat contentious series of comments in this thread.

Shaz on 4/3/2017 at 00:13

That's ok Yandros. The way I read your original comment was along the vein of the whole 'If it's yours, it's your shit, but if it's mine, it's my stuff' comparison. And since we all love Thief, we know it's not shit. Nope. It's our stuff.

Rubim on 4/3/2017 at 01:53

Quote Posted by Judith

Hello, it's 2017, not 1997. It's more or less 50-50 by now, at least in generations around their 20s-30s. You really have to be backwards or living in a bubble to still spew that nonsense.

It's not 50/50.

Unless you think that he is talking about 'casual gaming/mobile gaming'..

There's a reason why we usually have a male protagonist, the market team usually know what's up. (See how many people played Fem Sheppard in Mass Effect.).

I'm suspecting you got that 50/50 ratio from here:
(https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/18/52-percent-people-playing-games-women-industry-doesnt-know)
(https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/17/women-video-games-iab)

Looking at that research you will find this:
"Furthermore, 54% of survey respondents cited their phone as their favourite gaming platform."
Moreinfo: (http://pyroteq.com/girl-gamers-demographics-myths/)

Check any gaming forum, any community. Count the players of any PC multiplayer online game right now, Battlefield, Dota 2, CS:GO even For Honor. I doubt that half of the team will be made of girls.

PyroRogue on 4/3/2017 at 02:47

My wife isn't into most of the games I play, Thief prominently so. She's more into Puzzle/Hidden Object games, which is fine with me on 2 levels.
1, she doesn't bug me about my gaming habit.
And 2, we don't argue over the way we play.
Win-win.
That said, I don't think I could be in a relationship with someone that doesn't game.

Ev0luti0n_ on 4/3/2017 at 05:11

My hands don't care what I do, or if I play thief or not. :(

Judith on 4/3/2017 at 11:50

Quote Posted by Rubim

It's not 50/50...

So, you're basically saying that it's not 50/50 because half of women don't play AAA shooters, which is ridiculous. We are talking about gaming as a whole phenomenon. AAA shooter is only one genre and a just a portion of a market. There are many more audiences and genres, obviously.

Sadovnik on 4/3/2017 at 14:00

Aren't we talking about PC games only? Lots of people out there don't even consider mobile "games" as games at all. It's just a funny little thing you can do to kill time. The games on the contrary are serious stuff, it's like reading a book, your mind absorbs it as a piece of art. In this case yeah, PC is mostly men area, sadly or not. But women are more interested in stealth than in a strategy or a shooter, I suppose. At least in my social surroundings.