Gamers: Male vs Female

Recently, while browsing the web, I came across an interesting article about male and female gamers and what separates them from each other. Why is it that gamers are predominately male instead of female? The article concluded that the nature and appearance of most games today just does not appeal to the female gamer, mainly in the way that the female characters are “overly endowed, highly sexualized, all but naked.” The games also seem to lack an emotional connection between the character and the player.

The article discussed what was wrong with game today and what needed to be done to attract female gamers. The main spokesperson said that they observed a 13 yr old female who was excelling a playing a popular game, but instead of advancing to higher levels in order to complete the game, the girl got bored and quit playing. When asked why, the girl replied “I pulled his heart out once, why do I need to do it again?”

I think this is very true, a lot of popular games out there are very repetitive and focus on defeating enemies, but once you have defeated one enemy, don't you defeat the rest of the enemies is a similar way? Yes, you may have new skills and weapons, and the other enemies may have become more powerful that the previous one, but isn't the process the same, just a variety of buttons pressed in a particular order, or no order at all?

But then again, maybe it is exactly this which attracts male gamers more than female gamers. The end result is the same, the enemy is dead, but this time he died from being decapitated instead of being shot in the heart. Does this really make all the difference? Is it what separates male and female gamers?