A beautiful woman turning into a hideous monster is more shocking than a man turning into a hideous monster. Women are more beautiful in the eyes of straight males. To see something beautiful become hideous is also memorable. There are many reasons why they do this and none of them have anything to do with sexist beliefs and misogyny. Gamers want to be shocked time to time otherwise life becomes too boring.

Yeah but without those people we would have never heard of her,she would not have gotten that much attention and money, and we would not have these funny threads. So I am glad they are very vocal in their outrage and hope they continue, its very funny to read.

Exactly! Finally, someone who gets it...

Not really surprising that you insist women should swallow. (Hurray! Cheap joke acheived!). Women are 47% BUT SOMEHOW THAT IS NOT VIABLE? Fuck you. And do it hard.

Ugh, they are not 47%... Please repair your crashed space ship and go back to your home world, Planet Feminazi, already.

But what about the children in Africa, who's going to cater to gaming interests of the starving children?..

You do realize this is a derail, right?
Amok: "there are women who want to play FPSes but can't find anything good to play, FPS designers should be more inclusive".
You: "but what about the women who don't want to play FPSes?"

But... but ladyparts are icky and confusing and that pretty girl from class didn't award me with a blowjob after I helped her with her homework! And I'm SUCH a Nice Guy (tm)!

I guess it's true what they say, women are from Omicron Persei 7, men are from Omicron Persei 9...

For me that doesn't work. Maybe it's because I'm a woman.

The woman turning into a monster and then her loving man puts her out of her misery is overdone, and for me it's nothing more than a symbol that here should be a horrible, emotional plot moment but the designer had no creative idea what to do.
It's like the guys joining my Shadowrun P&P group and when you ask them about their character they start with "He's an orphan..."
Yes, it makes things easy plot-wise.

But really, I would like to see it the other way around from time to time, meaning the husband/boyfriend turning into a monster. And I wonder if video game designer then also come up with "put him out of his misery" as the only possible solution.

Aaaaaaaand... Godwin! Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner!

Nope, not at all But same as all men do not have the same tastes in videogames, neither does women. Do you really think that out of the 47% of women gamers only 1% prefer core games? When it comes to film, there is a lot larger variety, even within action films. It is also different as you do not get so immersed in a film as in a game.

There is a large, broad and cash strong group of people here which is not catered for because there is this incorrect view that a gamer is white male between 15 and 25. This is the demographics which they make games for, and they have sold because this is the games being made. They sold, therefore the logical conclusion is that we need to make more of them. Or is maybe not another conclusion that they sold because it is only this type of games being made?

I do not think it is coincidence that many of the AAA games are not selling as much as expected right now, because there is an emerging market catering for the other half of gamers. My partner want a good AAA game, but she do not need as she gets her fix from casual games right now. It does make me sad, as we do not play together as much as we did before, though. ( yes, I know I am stretching it a bit and that there are more factors, but I do think this is one of them)

Bing, bing bing... you just hit all the right buttons. Anyone using the term feminazi without irony is a spoiled little Limbaugh baby.

Don't you understaaand, only 1 person (amok's girlfriend) of the 47% of everyone plays HARDCORE games, and it's not because the games are all made for men. They know their stuff, they have seen numbers and are statistics masters. I have seen a woman who only played casual games. That is very unlike men, who ALL PLAY ALL HARDCORE ALL DAY like MEN and MEN have MONEY which makes them a MARKET that WOMEN aren't BECAUSE WOMEN HAVE NO MONEY. It's so simple, but hard to get for some.

You heard how langurmonkey wouldn't take part in a market that doesn't want him. He's saying that women need to swallow the shit he wouldn't swallow in their position because he's a MAN damn it.

Aaaaand we have a winner for jamotides law, that everyone someone talks about nazis, some douche comes along and calls for that stupid godwin.