{"id":1416,"date":"2009-04-10T15:22:29","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T20:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/04\/10\/women-love-wow\/"},"modified":"2010-06-05T14:08:45","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T19:08:45","slug":"women-love-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/04\/10\/women-love-wow\/","title":{"rendered":"Women love WoW?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I have to admit that this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gossipgamers.com\/nielsen-reports-400k-female-world-of-warcraft-players-in-us\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.gossipgamers.com\/nielsen-reports-400k-female-world-of-warcraft-players-in-us\/', 'story');\" target=\"new\">story<\/a> really surprised me.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s amazing how Nielsen can get these numbers but they\u2019re reporting a total of 428,621 female WoW players while there are 675,713 male players within the age groups of 25 to 54.<\/p>\n<p>The statistic is even more impressive when considering that an estimated 675,713 unique male players of the same age group logged into World of Warcraft during the period, indicating that the WoW gender gap may not be as large as some imagine.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who knew that women love WoW almost as much as men?  I know that Blizzard claims to have millions of users, so I guess the rest are male teenagers?  Surely there are not hundreds of thousands of girls slogging though WoW?<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I have to admit that this story really surprised me. \u201cIt\u2019s amazing how Nielsen can get these numbers but they\u2019re reporting a total of 428,621 female WoW players while there are 675,713 male players within the age groups of 25 to 54. The statistic is even more impressive when considering that an estimated 675,713 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/04\/10\/women-love-wow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Women love WoW?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,60],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-pc","tag-wow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2833,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions\/2833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}