Rock, Paper, Shotgun wrote:

Nevertheless, I believe changing games will ruin them. They’re supposed to be about escapism.

Escapism is great! We love it. We all need to escape. Even the people analysing and criticising want to escape for a while. It’s a wonderful thing to be able to do. It’s not all that games can do, though, is it? Games can be about real world situations. The same systems that run games are used to train pilots and soldiers. Game developers are using them to talk about social situations, personal issues, and to explore the real world from an interactive perspective, just as books explore it from a literary perspective. There are games about politics and social lives, economies and history. Games are a big old toolbox, and using them as escapism is just one application. Let’s not limit them.

"Frogboy" wrote:

Women tend to like different types of games than men and vice versa. It has nothing to do with how “inclusive” the community is. 5 of the most popular games for women include Candy Crush, Bejweweled 2, Crosswords and Soduku, Cake Shop 2 and World of Warcraft (this is before Sims 4 was released). In short, generally speaking (WoW aside) women tend to like different games than men. And that’s fine.

Gaming really is for everyone. But gaming is a relationship between the people who make the games and the people who play them. The level of “inclusiveness” in the communities nor the sensitivity of the journalist has little to do with attracting women to a given game. It’s mostly the game itself. Is the game fun and interesting to a woman?

My disinterest in playing Cake Shop 2 is not because the women playing it are filled is misandry. It’s really not their fault.