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You do realize women like fighting games and the MCU, right?
That's the whole point of this statistic: the current gaming market is already palatable to everybody, unlike what your statement seem to misunderstand.
Eh, just because lots of women are playing games doesn't mean they're catered to women.
Don't get me wrong, the industry's come a long way from every female character having 28DD's and videogame trailers being all about stoic badasses and explosions. I think the rise of indie games has been great for that. But there's an undeniable male-coded streak that still exists in marketing and in the industry, especially at the AAA level, and there's progress we can still make there.
@rustyspoon @dwindling7373 The games appeal to women enough to play them. Nobody is forcing women to play games they don't like.