Post #2467205

> It makes me angry and sad to see games with a traditionally female userbase, such as The Sims, to be lumped into ‘casual’ genres, when I never knew a single Sims player who had a casual relationship with that game. They were typically much more intense about these games and fandoms than your average male FIFA/Call of Duty/Battlefield players, but the latter count as ‘real gamers’. This is a really good point and it makes me realize that "casual" as a genre translates pretty well to "games stereotyped towards women". I'd go as far as to say most modern video games *can* be played casually, but if we actually put the bar at games that aren't intended to be played otherwise we're looking at freecell.