I am sure these women know all about...

[Tawmis]

... Dragon Age: Origins, right?

[DeadPoolX]

Hey, I'm married to a hot woman who plays video games!

[Tawmis]

Hey, I'm married to a hot woman who plays video games!

Without a doubt. But I was humored that these women were hired for one thing and one thing only. And they clearly knew nothing of the game. I am pretty sure where they show the one girl holding the X360 Controller, it's probably the first time she's done that!

[DeadPoolX]

Hey, I'm married to a hot woman who plays video games!

Without a doubt. But I was humored that these women were hired for one thing and one thing only. And they clearly knew nothing of the game. I am pretty sure where they show the one girl holding the X360 Controller, it's probably the first time she's done that!

If this were a TV show they'd have Pac Man ot Space Invader sound effects in the background.

[dotkel50]

Without a doubt. But I was humored that these women were hired for one thing and one thing only. And they clearly knew nothing of the game. I am pretty sure where they show the one girl holding the X360 Controller, it's probably the first time she's done that!

Sexist pig! Does anybody still say that?

[Tawmis]

Without a doubt. But I was humored that these women were hired for one thing and one thing only. And they clearly knew nothing of the game. I am pretty sure where they show the one girl holding the X360 Controller, it's probably the first time she's done that!

Sexist pig! Does anybody still say that?

Oh, rest assured, I know there's women gamers. I just don't think THOSE women were gamers. In the least bit.
They seemed to be too... into themselves... to possibly have any other interest than how they look.

[Maiandra]

That's kind of lame that they're still trying to lure in THAT demographic with a bunch of scantily clad women who have nothing to do with the game. Of course, we don't know how the final ad looked. Maybe it wasn't that bad.

They've made a number of Dragon Age commercials and they all focus on the combat, despite the rich story. I think they should make commercials that focus on both to draw in a broader range of people.

Personally, I prefer this Saints Row Character Creator commercial. Sure, they're scantily clad too, but at least it's intentionally ridiculous.

[Collector]

Perhaps their marketers are still stuck in the old paradigm that the majority of gamers are pimply teenage boys.

[Maiandra]

Possibly, but I know at least some people at BioWare know better. When I used to actually participate in their forums, they had some prominent community members who were women and some of them had sort of fan-based working relationships with the company. There are a number of female players of RPGs compared to other genres.

I guess those kinds of commercials just piss me off because that's how the general public gets their impression that video games only consist of blood-thirsty combat.

[DeadPoolX]

I think the average non-gamer probably believes this sort of idiocy shown in TV shows over anything else.

[MusicallyInspired]

Dear God.

I can only hope that someday Randy Pitchford we'll be right. Someday everyone will be a gamer. And we'll have a president of the United States whose also a gamer. Maybe then people will actually GET IT.