Science fiction is an extremely male-dominated domain,” she tells me. In a separate interview, EVE senior producer Andie Nordgren echoes Gunnarsson’s explanation, almost verbatim: “Part of it is due to the theme of the game. “Science fiction-themed worlds tend to attract men.” “I think we have to be realistic about what EVE Online is,” says Thor Gunnarsson, vice-president of business development at CCP. If EVE Online were trending with the broader landscape of MMOs, we should expect to see almost four times as many women than are currently subscribed.
In a paper for Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat: New Perspectives on Gender and Gaming, researcher Nick Yee presents the result of a multi-year survey of over 40,000 MMO players: roughly 15% of them are women.
Still, EVE Online’s gender ratio is overwhelmingly, if not surprisingly, dominated by men, even compared to other MMOs. Ali Aras, for example, is the online name of a woman currently serving as vice-secretary of EVE’s eighth Council of Stellar Management, a player-elected committee that liaises between developers and players. Better design will attract more diverse players, says CCPĪccording to David Reid, CCP Games’ chief marketing officer, 96 percent of the people subscribing to his company’s flagship MMO EVE Online are male.ĭespite only comprising a meager four percent of the user base, women aren’t entirely unrepresented in EVE Online.
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