Time Is On Our Side

Welcome to the seventeenth installment of the EVE Blog Banter, the monthly EVE Online blogging extravaganza created by CrazyKinux. The EVE Blog Banter involves an enthusiastic group of gaming bloggers, a common topic within the realm of EVE Online, and a week to post articles pertaining to the said topic. The resulting articles can either be short or quite extensive, either funny or dead serious, but are always a great fun to read! Any questions about the EVE Blog Banter should be directed to crazykinux@gmail.com. Check out other EVE Blog Banter articles at the bottom of this post!

What could CCP Games do to attract and maintain a higher percentage of women to the game. Will Incarna do the trick? Can anything else be done in the mean time? Can we the players do our part to share the game we love with our counterparts, with our sisters or daughters, with the Ladies in our lives? What could be added to the game to make it more attractive to them? Should anything be changed? Is the game at fault, or its player base to blame?

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Don't change a thing.


If CCP continue to make an engaging and dynamic universe with increasing number of options for emergent gameplay, than the percentage of female players will increase naturally as the playerbase evolves through time.

I believe that the original base was so predominately male to begin with due to our culture and gender roles defined in the 70s and early 80s. As children of the 90s and 2000s grow into adults and look for entertainment, I think a larger percentage of those gamers attracted to Eve will naturally be female as gender roles evolved into more open ones when those new players were growing up.

Changing the formula now would be an insult to the current gamers that love the game for what it is.

If there is something inherently male about Eve and it will never increase beyond the 5% female playerbase it has now (and I'm willing to concede that is possible), then so be it. I'd rather play Eve as it is now with a bunch of guys and a few brilliant girls than to dilute the experience to have the chance to interact with more women.

I play Eve for the pew pew, I don't care whether or not the person on the other end of my barrel is XX or XY.

Other Participants:

1. The Ladies of New Eden
2. Is EVE a man's world?
3. Sorry, No Pink Spaceships Here Please
4. EVE Blog Banter: Chicks 'N Ships
5. Eve Blog Banter: The Girls Who Fly Spaceships
6. It’s not about fluffy bloody Kittens people!
7. Space Boobies Are Bad, m'kay?
8. Special Blog Banter: I Like Girls
9. Special Edition or making Eve More Casual
10. I wish my wife played EVE
11. Is there something special about women?
12. CK's Blog Banter
13. The Female of the Species
14. EVE Online Can Appeal to Women By Adding Casual Content
15. Blog Banter: The Ladies
16. Women Who Want EVE
17. Tech 2 stilettos
18. New Eden doesn't need to change for Eve – Adam needs to get over himself
19. EVE Online and… women (sorta)
20. Think Outside the Spaceship
21. EVE's monthly banter - Women, women, women
22. Girls Just Wanna Have... Guns!
23. Draco Horizons (Blog) <-- Needs to add intro (with links) and list of participants
24. Don’t change Eve for me!
25. Where Are Teh Laydeez of EVE?
26. Where Are All The Wenches?
27. EVEquality: The Rise of the Female Gamer
28. Women? In MY SPACESHIP? Is she from Mars as well?
29. Blog Banter: Captain Kirk Hates Eve <-- Needs list of participants
30. The Female of the Species
31. The Ladies of New Eden
32. EVE and the X by X Genetic Succession Unit
33. Sociability V
34. Girl on Girls in Space
35. What women want (in Eve)
36. Time Is On Our Side
37. Roc Appeal <-- Needs to add intro (with links) and list of participants
38. Women in EVE
39. Getting In Touch With Our Feminine Side
40. More to come...