Spellblade
I think it could replace reddit in the long term but the others I’m not so sure about. Twitter and YouTube still mostly function so people won’t leave but without 3rd party tools and the lack of trust users have in reddit to develop those tools on their own that leaves them in a very bad position.
His company were the ones that did the survey, so I’d think it’s likely that he’s reporting it accurately. I wasn’t able to find the data set for any of his company’s surveys (I assume youd have to pay for it) but I did find this: https://www.statista.com/statistics/232383/gender-split-of-us-computer-and-video-gamers/ and this https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2017/09/11/younger-men-play-video-games-but-so-do-a-diverse-group-of-other-americans/. Those two articles show that while men are more likely to play games, women are still playing them a lot, particularly young women. So Circana’s player pulse survey, assuming it is being represented correctly isn’t out of line with other research done on this topic. The gamers upset about this seem to just be out of touch.
These people just have an all encompassing need to be contrarian. But if they wanna go and frolick in the aqi 500 air be my guest.
This is the best internet drama I’ve seen in a long time.
He just answered a question about their accessibility issues with basically “oh we’re working on it”. Come the fuck on dude that shit needed to be in place before you did all this and to be frank reddit’s got a history of lying about that stuff too.
Unfortunately, most of the gaming communities I looked (4chan, gamefaqs, reddit, twitter) at had a significant portion of the comments refusing to believe it. Some were able to believe the switch data thanks to games like Animal Crossing and Zelda but significant amount thought these stats were from moms buying stuff for kids. But I will say there were plenty of comments pushing back against that.
It’s bizarre, isn’t it. I’m a woman and I remember growing up with Pokémon, and Zelda and those 2 game series are extremely popular with women. A lot of women I know love puzzle games and were huge fans of Professor Layton on the ds when that was out. I even know a woman at my job who’s into Elden Ring.
I’m thinking Twitch. Discord, imo, is just starting down the bad path but it still does what it’s supposed to do very well. Twitch, however, wants to enforce rules on content creators that might lead to them leaving entirely.
I don’t understand why they’re surprised. Gaming has been mainstream for many many years now and women are half the population.