Wow. I must be liked blessed because I have 2 girls at my school who play RTSs. I have spent alot of time playing them in multi player in C&C Generals, C&C Tiberium Wars, and if I can convince them Sins too. But it is weird, I don't think I really treat them like girls anymore. I treat them like my guy friends who happen not to have the male equipment.

damn straight i'm a girl that plays RTS's!   

I myself am not a girl but I know several girls that play RTS games as well as various video game genres. One of which happens to be my wife...

I've known a couple girls that played starcraft and some wc3 and were actually fairly decent looking. I've also met a few that played counter-strike and some COD4.

And the biggest female-playing game that i know of is DEFINITELY world of warcraft. I know over a dozen girls, from ugly to very tasty that play WOW. And contrary to what I thought would happen, their characters spanned horde and alliance, healing and dps. I figured chicks would all be Night elf priests or druids.


The hottest girl I ever dated played a ton of console fighting games. I'd usually win half the time. Then I would take her clothes off. But that's another story altogether. We had to beat them to death with their own shoes...

Two of the top-selling computer games of all time? Sims series and World of Warcraft.

Expanding your target demographic from 12-24 year old males to everyone with a computer can't hurt too much I guess. In each case, the player can identify with someone. In the Sims, you're basically playing with a dollhouse. Yes guys, you are finally playing with dolls, making up stories, and acting them out.

In WoW, it's all about social interaction. Sure you can get to level 70 solo, but if you want to do something as simple as a good instance run, better networking skills=better experience. My wife is a WoW gamer. Probably one of the top 100 warlocks in the world. Certainly in the top 250. She was dragged into the statistics part kicking and screaming all the way- by a friend who *was* a total stats geek. Then she got into the server-first guild, courtesy of another friend she made. Then she became a class officer, mainly by presenting a mature, calm and intelligent alternative to a bunch of college guys.

RTS though? There's no way to identify with the game in most cases. Jim Raynor and Kerrigan from Starcraft is about as close as you get. RPGs? Identification is built in. MMORPG? You are your character. Make friends to advance. Casual games? Well, they're casual. Who needs to make a connection to pick up Guitar Hero, fiddle with the controller, and rock your heart out on Easy mode? Even better, get a few friends over. Your fingers get tired after a bit and it's more fun to get offline friends involved.

Until that connection problem is bridged, you won't see a lot of females playing RTS games. It's going to be a serious challenge for game developers.

pfft girls on the internet is a lie lol

can we please let the girls have a chance to post? umm... *hint* maybe topic should be like, where are the "girls that play rts"    

Visit sweden. You'll have a hard time finding a girl here that isnt a huge WoW / Diablo 2 fan, seriously

A good friend of mien is a gamer of sorts. She enjoy playing wow, aoc, civ4, warcraft 3 and dawn of war. She also plays what I call her "stupid games". They consist of odd little bargain bin games like puzzles and villager creators and what not. I will say the funniest thing I have ever seen her do wa in a game of Masquerade. I was teaching her the fundamentals of steathily sneaking up on your pray and feeding before anyone knew what was going on. Well, she had her own plans. She picks up the nearest bat and runs headlong into the gangbangers all the while reminding me that she was "an ass kicking vampire of death". After smashing the hell out of the first one the goons in the house began shooting out the windows trying to get to her. She draws them all out and slaughters every one of them with her "bat of doom". After that fiasco I tell her that theres mroe in the house and she should try a little subtlety. I tell her to go turn the switch next to the generator, to turn off the lights. Well, it seems that "ass kicking vampires of death" dont believe in using switches. 2 swings later the generator explodes knocking her on her ass and drawing out the remaining goons, whom she promptly grand slammed. Fairer sex my ass.

Im glad to see every forum on the internet has a "do gurls p14y games?" thread.

Seriously who cares, who REALLY cares?

I do. Why? Because EA seems to think the vast majority of girls like adorable pink, cute and cuddly games. That may infact be true, I don't know. But I don't care about that, I'm not a girl so Im not the one being patronised.

HOWEVER... When EA (or any dev/publisher) thinks they can take a perfectly good violent bloody game with all sorts of things christians hate in it (which is perfectly fine for girls to play remember, killing fictional people is not a men only activity) and tone it down with pink cuddly graphics to appeal to that huge market - I CARE.

I find most games specifically aimed at girls to be extremely patronizing.

That said, I don't think there's anything wrong with designing and marketing games with women in mind. I don't think any really big budget projects are likely, though, for the same reason that Fox canceled Firefly (even if they can get a large female audience, they don't want that audience).

I also think that lots of guys do spend too much time discussing whether women play video games (and how well or poorly we allegedly play).

I play GTA. I have GTA 3, Vice City, and San Andreas. Been too lazy to pick up IV.