Girls that play Factorio

[Yu Sok Mi Hof]

Are there any girls playing Factorio?

[Tarka]

There was another discussion about this recently.

Sadly, it seems that Steam is full of immature idiots who cannot discuss the subject sensibly and respectfully.

Maybe some day gamers will be able to discuss matter-of-factly who they are behind the screen without a trollstorm, thread locking and bans, but not soon I think.

[Name Lips]

I remember playing D&D Online years ago. I know it's still going, but this was near the beginning, when one of the big, innovative things about it was the built-in voice chat. As soon as you were in a party, you were all in the same channel and could talk to each other!

So I joined a party, and we were all introducing ourselves, including a very nice young lady who seemed to know what she was doing. But the conversation INSTANTLY turned to "oh wow is that a girl?" "Hi, I haven't run into any girls playing this game before" and so on.

It was all pretty polite, but it was the entire conversation. The DDO players seemed to be unable to talk about anything other than the girl they were playing with, and how she was a girl, and how that's pretty interesting. They weren't organizing the dungeon run, talking about magic items and spells to prepare, or anything useful. Eventually she just snapped "I just wanted to do the dungeon, this is why I usually pretend not to have a mic" and quit the party.

Now, that was a few years ago, but the point remains. It's hard for a girl to be categorized as anything other than "the girl gamer" when interacting with other gamers that she's not already friends with. It's a lot simpler to remain gender-anonymous and be treated the same as everybody else. Which means not raising your hand in threads like this, or connecting to voice comms, or anything else that "outs" them.

This has been getting better, and I think the younger generation of gamers is more egalitarian. But I still think girls are more likely to play with people they know personally in real life, and if they do join groups of strangers, aren't as likely to reveal their gender.

[KatherineOfSky]

Yes, there are many women and young ladies who play Factorio.

[Vekhio]

My daughter is 7. She hasn't reached the maturity level this game requires to actually play free play. I've never done the campaign and she has completed it. Now we join together in God mode and while I build blue prints, she builds spaghetti train systems. We have a silly time doing so.

[soldier6661111]

Who really cares? This isn't a dating forum. I'm sure there are, but the interest is odd and a bit sad.

[GunRunner89X]

Originally posted by soldier6661111:

Who really cares? This isn't a dating forum. I'm sure there are, but the interest is odd and a bit sad.

^ This.

[♥ＭＯＬＬＹ♥]

I'm a girl IRL. Send me gifts for SnapChat

[Rabob]

Originally posted by ♥ＭＯＬＬＹ♥:

I'm a girl IRL. Send me gifts for SnapChat

You'll get 1 gem from me. And that would still mean I am overpaying.

[Talisien]

Originally posted by soldier6661111:

Who really cares? This isn't a dating forum. I'm sure there are, but the interest is odd and a bit sad.

indeed this is steam not tinder

[Radioactive Panda]

There're girl gamers?! What is this?!??!!!? *all logic flys out the window*

[Jonathan]

I play Divinity 1 and 2 and a few other games with my wife.

But she wants nothing to do with Factorio.

I triied. I really did. But I meed to stop trying before she divorces me.

[Vixx]

Originally posted by soldier6661111:

Who really cares? This isn't a dating forum. I'm sure there are, but the interest is odd and a bit sad.

Exactly, why does it matter?

[juliejayne]

Originally posted by Vixx:

Originally posted by soldier6661111:

Who really cares? This isn't a dating forum. I'm sure there are, but the interest is odd and a bit sad.

Exactly, why does it matter?

Yes, why the interest... I am too old to be a girl... but if Old lady counts?

[ShutEye_DK]

Originally posted by juliejayne:

Originally posted by Vixx:

Exactly, why does it matter?

Yes, why the interest... I am too old to be a girl... but if Old lady counts?

You write like you are human being. I guess you are then. For me that's all that matters.

[Cdnr1]

yawn