Don Bradman Cricket 17 General Discussion

Biggs said:
I would love some female members to weigh in on this, we're just a bunch of blokes talking about their game and what we think, for fear of "Ted Cruising" the subject n'all ...be good to get some actual female perspective on any possible inclusion.
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I agree with you on this - its not going to be men who would be the target market for the inclusion of women's cricket, its going to be Women who are interested in Cricket. I'm pretty sure that we have a couple of women members, although no one who is particularly active and it'd be interesting to hear what they think.

I'm all for the inclusion of Women's cricket in the game; and I'm pretty sure that its something that could be added without hampering the addition of other features that everyone wants. I liked the way that FIFA did it by separating the two parts of the game and emphasising that although its the same sport the mens and women's game are very different in many key ways: and that these differences are good things. Just making Women cricketers play the same as Male cricketers just with a different model would be a bad thing since both games play very differently; and if they couldn't accurately do this I'd rather that they waited for the next version rather than try something half-hearted. Although DBC17 probably will not be hampered by licensing, so letting you put mens and women's teams against each other might not be an issue . Looking at it from another perspective: it might help them get a lot more press attention since the vast majority of sports games focuses on only men (I can only think of FIFA, although I'm probably missing something), and one that includes women in a good way (not in a tokenistic manner, that's almost as bad as doing nothing) might help get the thing a lot of positive press attention (plus some from certain groups of people that don't like it when any women are included in video games, but honestly who cares about them). I think that Cricket is a perfect sport to incorporate both the Women's and Mens game in the same video game - Women's Cricket is among the most developed of the major team sports, and possibly the best one for press reporting of the women's game - although that isn't saying a great deal to be honest! I'm probably biased since I'm from the UK, I don't know what its like in other countries...
 
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Ross' tweet in Reply to Blocker's tweet..

Customisation in #DBC17 will be extreme - The Academy is central to the entire game.
 
cooks1st100 said:
Serious question. Does anyone here know any females who have both a keen interest in cricket and play computer games? Personally I don't know any.
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My sister does. All the time. Played DBC with her whenever I've gone to visit her and the family.
 
cooks1st100 said:
Serious question. Does anyone here know any females who have both a keen interest in cricket and play computer games? Personally I don't know any.
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You have just asked a question that made everyone look a bit sad, without intending too. I was expecting some bloke to pop up and say well I touched a girl’s boob in a dark cupboard once.

But seriously of the females I know there is no interest in this game or site they would sooner pick up GTA. Negative I know but I have to be honest.

Cricket and my GF.

I was watching cricket and my GF came in from the dining room and looked at the TV

She said “I would be bored been one of those umpires, I would be looking at the clouds or something”

I Said “He has to stand there”

She replied “They could at least get him a chair to sit in”.

She also thought Billy Bowden looked like a pervert.

I do know females who know about cricket but playing it as a gamer has no appeal. (One of the main reasons I got it looks too complicated). We did play cricket on the beach and the girls joined in but that is as far as it went.

Most men play the female character an example is Tomb Raider. So I would imagine if females were added to the next instalment the majority of female cricketers would be operated by male gamers.
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I did have one male friend who bought the game and played it but he soon got bored. I suggested coming on here because you can play in leagues he went back to Fifa. He didn’t like the way it wouldn’t connect to another player (the whole DC thing) and when he played online people would just bowl short spin and he got sick of it fast and again the site didn't appeal.
 
my cricket club has a pretty big and successful womens team, and just based on demographics you'd imagine that a fair few of them would play a game like DBC - more women than men now play video games generally, and although that probably isn't the case for sports games I think that the gender gap would be a fair amount smaller than anyone would expect.

I'm a Scot and most of my pals aren't even into Cricket so expecting them to like a Cricket game is silly, but the vast majority are genuinely into games and there isn't really a gender divide at all. I think I'm at the tail end of the first generation of people who grew up with games being a mainstream thing (I've had a computer since before I went into Primary School, me and my sister spent hours playing loads of stuff on it (she actually played more respectable stuff that I ever did, I was basically a driving game and Age of Empires only person for a long time) and because of that I've never seen games as being this exclusively male-dominated thing: because increasingly that's a myth. I've probably spent hundreds of hours playing a really close friend at Football Manager (not for a long time though; probably because she's hitting the actually important years of uni and wants to do well), and that's still a fairly niche sports game, I'd imagine that more action-y games like DBC would be more accessible. Her girlfriend doesn't understand mind, although I think that's more a "why would you want to play a Football game and not actually control the players?" thing and that's a question that I've heard from lots of different people anyway...
 
On a separate topic, are there any confirmed improvement/changes for the next iteration of the game?
 
The notion that "girls wouldn't play cricket games" is frankly ridiculous. I don't think it's a huge audience but you stick the opportunities into the game to be accessed (create-a-female-character for example) and they'd buy into it. The advent of T20 cricket has all-but nixed the notion that women don't like cricket, it's a straight 50/50 and ODI cricket (especially the latest World Cup in NZ) has seen the game grow in popularity among women - I'm basing this purely on anecdotal Twitter/Friends/Ground attendance that I've personally witnessed but as Ice Age said earlier, the gender divide isn't that great, I just think PlanetCricket is a very niche male-based group of fans.

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...and on a totally different topic I'm excited to see what, if any, associate nations have signed on to the new game! [HASHTAG]#AfghanistanPlease[/HASHTAG]
 
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IceAgeComing said:
my cricket club has a pretty big and successful womens team, and just based on demographics you'd imagine that a fair few of them would play a game like DBC - more women than men now play video games generally, and although that probably isn't the case for sports games I think that the gender gap would be a fair amount smaller than anyone would expect.
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I read an article which stated this is true in case you factor in mobile or app based games on mobile devices (phones & tablets), i.e. games like candy crush, farmville, angry birds etc. But if you are looking at hard-core gaming on consoles, sadly it's still a male dominated domain.
 
Mars_Mk1 said:
You have just asked a question that made everyone look a bit sad, without intending too. I was expecting some bloke to pop up and say well I touched a girl’s boob in a dark cupboard once.
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I'm genuinely interested to hear why you thought so. I know it would take the thread on a different tangent but I'm intrigued.
 
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