Gender Options & more!

[Lula StrangeLove]

Hello!


i have just an idea for steam. some girl friends and me thought it would be much more nice if steam could create more profil options. the most important for us is the gender! it would be so great if you can choose the gender and much more cool would be if the gender symbol is big next to the avatar in steam light grey or something. its also great for the steam company because they see which girls play which games so you can see how are some games works by the female and male . so you see the age and gender and which gender bought that and where you can invest for games in future. maybe at all more profil setting like google+ , youtube and what so else. it should be not to much social network but a bit more ! so maybe come more steam users. because you have the games , the profil for friends and co and the thrid thing would be the half social network thing like google+. thats only an idea from us girls but the most great thing would be the gender select :-)

thanks for reading my letter


P.S. ... steam is at all a very very great platform . everything works great and the design is fantastic! everything is perfect! only my idea is missing *g*. and sorry for my bad english but i think the english support is the main support and more close to the steam managers to tell them the idea ;-)


greetings,
Adriana

[Marble]

Advertising your gender is just asking for all sorts of abuse, especially for the relatively small female demographic. Is it really necessary?

[Wakey]

"...and much more cool would be if the gender symbol is big next to the avatar in steam light grey or something."
lol what?
You and you're friends have the need for as much attention as possible, have you?
I don't mind the option to show your gender... But keep like the location info or whatever. The small text on your profile. No need to flash it to everyone you end up playing with.
This just shrieks of attention wh****. No offence ;P

[dirrtymartini]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Wakey:

"...and much more cool would be if the gender symbol is big next to the avatar in steam light grey or something."
lol what?
You and you're friends have the need for as much attention as possible, have you?
I don't mind the option to show your gender... But keep like the location info or whatever. The small text on your profile. No need to flash it to everyone you end up playing with.
This just shrieks of attention wh****. No offence ;P

Well said. We have enough of those already.

[Marble]

^These posts kinda illustrate my point.

[dirrtymartini]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Canti:

^These posts kinda illustrate my point.

There are plenty of female Steam users. They just don't feel the need to flaunt their ♥♥♥ around like some kind of badge.

[Lula StrangeLove]

what the hell ? i mean that only as little idea. you can make that in a few time but everyone means wlays that girls dont like video games and dont play it and what so else . the girls who play games get always flamed . easy thing ...games like call of duty , battlefield 3 , medal of honor and the other stuff . there you have only male characters. thats stupid to fight as man because there are soldiers girls to out there but the developer dont make female chars because they think no girl plays that and if they do so its only a very small part . so they dont do a work like that . in joint operation typhoon rising/escalation it give 2 gender and you can choose the country and that was great because it was one harmony . noe flaming and what so else . both gender fight againts one enemy ^^. in bf4 is it maybe possible to play female .*shrug* . but thats only a small thing and help a bit that girls get integrated in games. to open the market a bit more for them. the most girls love to play horror games like silent hill . the only one developer iknow is epic games. in the UT2003, UT 2004 , UT3 and gears of war the supportet us and it was for them not much more work in the end . thats a female thing . i knew that the most one dont understand . its not soemthing liek more rights for girls its jsut fpr us a bit more feminine. you boys must know .. girls like to be feminine *g* . so dont be so hard at all jsut for a small topic like this . so calm down. :-)

[dirrtymartini]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Valentta Zakovak:

what the hell ? i mean that only as little idea. you can make that in a few time but everyone means wlays that girls dont like video games and dont play it and what so else . the girls who play games get always flamed . easy thing ...games like call of duty , battlefield 3 , medal of honor and the other stuff . there you have only male characters. thats stupid to fight as man because there are soldiers girls to out there but the developer dont make female chars because they think no girl plays that and if they do so its only a very small part . so they dont do a work like that . in joint operation typhoon rising/escalation it give 2 gender and you can choose the country and that was great because it was one harmony . noe flaming and what so else . both gender fight againts one enemy ^^. in bf4 is it maybe possible to play female .*shrug* . but thats only a small thing and help a bit that girls get integrated in games. to open the market a bit more for them. the most girls love to play horror games like silent hill . the only one developer iknow is epic games. in the UT2003, UT 2004 , UT3 and gears of war the supportet us and it was for them not much more work in the end . thats a female thing . i knew that the most one dont understand . its not soemthing liek more rights for girls its jsut fpr us a bit more feminine. you boys must know .. girls like to be feminine *g* . so dont be so hard at all jsut for a small topic like this . so calm down. :-)

Honey OP, we are calm. You're the one getting hysterical and writing big blobs of text.

[Tito Shivan]

Besides, there are no girls on the Internet, only guys and FBI agents.

Now seriously... If I want to note my gender i already can do it on the profile. No need to put it on a badge or anything.
The few gamer girls already get enough crap from over - stimulated teenage idiots as to paint a bullseye on their profile, so everyone knows where they are.

And besides, what would forbid me from marking myself as a girl along my feminine, well-looking avatar?

[Lula StrangeLove]

i made now a picture of that what i mean !

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-TUxb7I53DnY/UbxDU5EgqNI/AAAAAAAAAzE/GHwH02-739Y/w1442-h811-no/steam+profil+update.jpg


you can not be serious! the video game market should have right now around 25%-30% female costumer for sure . some developers mean its more around 40%-45% . the funny thing on that . they arent sure. because they have only the datas from social networks , support services and what so else. with this idea they can it more fix it. on game conventions is the % number the same . but girls have soemtimes much more important thing to go to a games con and some dont going to a games con because they fear to get raped of hardcore nreds :-D ( the last one is more a joke ).

so again. thats just a little easy idea and nothing more . why can people not be always relaxed ? in this topic it give onle 3 things . you like this idea or you dont like this idea. and the third thing is if someone have more ideas about that what are helpful and friendly or maybe a a photo how it should looks like my photo ? have everyone understand ? because thats not fair if someone have an idea and the most one think thats stupid or starting a discussion about other things . be fair and let the topic how it is , please . we are all grown up and friendly people . thanks for listening!

[«Gғм» Kid Of The Century]

I just don't see how it could be beneficial for the Community honestly.

Steam's gaming platform, and its "social" side is gaming oriented as well. Gender's irrelevant on the Steam Community, everyone's a gamer there and one should just look for people to play games with. Whatever comes after -RL friendship, relationships, whatever- it's up to them.

[dirrtymartini]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Valentta Zakovak:

i made now a picture of that what i mean !

(snip poorly thought out idea)

Your ♥♥♥ is not relevant to PC gaming. Period. Stop. Nobody cares if you're a guy or a girl -- just whether you can kill bad guys, be social, and have a good time. Your ♥♥♥ doesn't matter. The minute Steam starts dragging your ♥♥♥ into the discussion is the minute Steam dies a little inside. Because it opens the door to a whole host of other ♥♥♥-related items and turns Steam into something other than a gaming platform.

[dirrtymartini]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Tito Shivan:

Besides, there are no girls on the Internet, only guys and FBI agents.

Now seriously... If I want to note my gender i already can do it on the profile. No need to put it on a badge or anything.
The few gamer girls already get enough crap from over - stimulated teenage idiots as to paint a bullseye on their profile, so everyone knows where they are.

And besides, what would forbid me from marking myself as a girl along my feminine, well-looking avatar?

And if we bring ♥♥♥ into this, it wouldn't be just male / female. We would need options for homosexuals, lesbians, transgender people, etc. They will probably require their own forum where Steam has to verify their ♥♥♥ before allowing them access. Now we have Steam checking our papers. Who pays for all this crap? We do when the next Valve game costs $5-$10 more to pay for this "♥♥♥ overhead" nonsense.

[DerAlleinTiger]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Valentta Zakovak:

what the hell ? i mean that only as little idea. you can make that in a few time but everyone means wlays that girls dont like video games and dont play it and what so else . the girls who play games get always flamed . easy thing ...games like call of duty , battlefield 3 , medal of honor and the other stuff . there you have only male characters. thats stupid to fight as man because there are soldiers girls to out there but the developer dont make female chars because they think no girl plays that and if they do so its only a very small part . so they dont do a work like that . in joint operation typhoon rising/escalation it give 2 gender and you can choose the country and that was great because it was one harmony . noe flaming and what so else . both gender fight againts one enemy ^^. in bf4 is it maybe possible to play female .*shrug* . but thats only a small thing and help a bit that girls get integrated in games. to open the market a bit more for them. the most girls love to play horror games like silent hill . the only one developer iknow is epic games. in the UT2003, UT 2004 , UT3 and gears of war the supportet us and it was for them not much more work in the end . thats a female thing . i knew that the most one dont understand . its not soemthing liek more rights for girls its jsut fpr us a bit more feminine. you boys must know .. girls like to be feminine *g* . so dont be so hard at all jsut for a small topic like this . so calm down. :-)

Well, to be fair to the developers, the U.S. military has JUST NOW started implementing combat roles for women. It's going to be a long and slow process that might even come to a halt if certain people get their way. I'm not even sure if any of the changes have been implemented yet. The whole thing only passed, what, like two months ago? Maybe less?

Until now, women in the U.S. military have been support roles or other non-combat roles. Of course, in practice, they have often been on the frontline supporting the men who do have combat roles and fighting alongside them; but that's just because of the chaos of war and it's far from ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

So, yeah, I can see why CoD, Battlefield, and MoH haven't put in female characters because it just wouldn't be all that accurate (which, I suppose, really shouldn't stop CoD, but it sure matters to Battlefield and MoH) to have female soldiers crawling around in the mud with American uniforms when that doesn't even happen in real life. Epic pulled it off in Gears because it's a fictional world with a ficitonal military with fictional rules. They didn't really have to worry about accuracy because, hey, you just chainsawed an alligator man in half before being attacked by a centipede shooting lightning from it's pincers. At that point, who cares about female characters being inaccurate?

[dirrtymartini]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Tom Cruise™ | Bazaar.tf:

why not wouldn't hurt anyone

It actually would. Reasons have been listed in earlier msgs.

[DerAlleinTiger]

I don't see much of an issue with implementing the overall idea, so long as you can set it to private or choose not to answer it. Just don't put the symbols next to the avatar in the boards, chatrooms, and comments. Just put it on the profile pages.

I suppose that wouldn't be much of a change since you can already say whether you're male or female in your bio, but whatever. I guess it would just make it look a little more ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ or something.