>A romance video game called Love and Producer raked in $32m last month, and players across China are making in-app purchases to pursue 4 virtual heartthrobs. >Launched in December, the game already has 2m daily active users, most of whom are young women. It’s a breakout success in a traditionally neglected gaming demographic — and female-focused gaming company Pape Games is pulling out all the stops to win over players’ hearts. >The game is essentially a “virtual romance novel,” wherein the player stars as a successful female TV producer tasked with reviving a hit show — all while courting 4 hunky dudes. >There’s Li Zeyan (the high-powered CEO with a heart of gold), Bai Qi, (the rugged police officer), Xu Mo (the sensitive genius scientist), and Zhou Qiluo (the fun-loving pop star). They can also stop time and fly on the wind. So there’s that. >Players embark on quests to take the men out on dates while running their production company — and of course, spending money expedites the process. >In China, the number of female gamers is growing (and spending) fast. >Case in point: 54% of players on Tencent’s most profitable mobile game, Honour of Kings, are women. That’s the largest proportion of female players on a “battle” game, and it’s clearly paying off.
Do you think dating sims will ever become mainstream in America/the West?
I fucking hope not. I caught my brother playing Dream Daddy the other week. That was awkward enough. I don't want to walk in on my mom playing some vidya version of a romance novel
Joshua Brown
>this >a dating sim
if you ain't raising stats to woo em you ain't playing a dating sim.
Tyler Hill
>Xu Mo (the sensitive genius scientist)
Let's be honest, no woman is getting wet for a nerdy scientist
Jayden Powell
50 Shades of Gray achieved mainstream popularity so all we need is a dating sim that hits all the right kinks like that one does.
Nicholas Perry
There's nothing wrong with this.
Logan Bennett
>It’s a breakout success in a traditionally neglected gaming demographic It's something that the Chinese learned from Japan where these games have been made for many years now.
Jeremiah Bailey
>implying I don’t think you know the women that play these games
Jonathan Lewis
My mom reads romance novels. There's no fucking four eyed nerd in a labcoat on any of the covers, retard
Christopher Davis
>Do you think dating sims will ever become mainstream in America/the West?
Highly unlikely. Due to stigma. They'll probably always be niche in the west, but that's pretty good since it means the market for it can be easily covered by indie developers and publishers.
Kayden King
2D and 3D are two different things.
Eli Foster
say it with me >IT'S OKAY WHEN WOMEN DO IT
Blake Morales
Nerds can be hot. Nerds =/= basement dwelling mgtow losers.
Eli Cook
>in a traditionally neglected gaming demographic What? Otome/BL games are fucking huge and have existed for almost as long as videogames themselves. What an ignorant statement.
Gavin Long
I don’t think your mother is the target audience here, though there’s probably another man for her.
Aaron Ramirez
It unironically is though. It's just that it should be ok when men do it too.
William Lee
Its being okay for men to do it for years. Calm down.
Gabriel Jackson
>game girlers getting scammed Three of those cartoon gooks have the exact same fucking face.
Nathaniel Sanders
do you know how actual chinese men are like? no wonder chinese women want some relief from them
Brody Mitchell
>it was once okay but now it's not, so just be cool and accept that times have changed and only women are allowed to be openly honest about their love for BL games
Parker Hernandez
I hope they aren't supposed to be different characters. Almost impossible to tell apart. And no, this isn't normal.
Jaxon Rogers
>Willful ignorance I can't remember what it's called, but there's a word for the stoic intellectual-type guy in anime/manga/VNs etc., it's a bishounen subtype. It's existed for decades and there are entire series that make fun of it, like Sakamoto Desu Ga.
John Reyes
>"I know this is zhao-kun because of the way his hair slightly parts at a 30 degree angle. chin-san never wears suits, while lin-chama has blonde hair"
Joshua Baker
Asian women might be into that shit, but white and hispanic women aren't. They'd gladly chose Tyrone, captain of the football team, over Glenn, captain of the chess club.
Wyatt Davis
slavic women also would choose brain over brawn they know where the money at.
Ayden Powell
>no woman is getting wet for a nerdy scientist >except for those women Whatever.
Elijah Rogers
he clearly meant american women, the low tier at their very best
Ryder Richardson
>handwaves an entire audience just because stacy wouldn’t like it
As long as the guy is handsome, they’ll eat it up.
Grayson Davis
>China is ruining gaming by influxing the economy of selective titles with the mere strenght of number
Is this what awaits us for the near future?
Jeremiah Adams
White and probably hispanic fujos and variants exist, as horrible as it is to imagine, who the fuck do you think keeps DeviantArt runing? It's just not very prevalent yet, wouldn't surprise me giving the rate of exposure this shit is getting in recent years.
Not really. But if that's the intention then sure.
Owen Diaz
>he fell for the jock meme >he doesn't realize women will fuck anything as long as it's handsome or has a huge cock, including animals
Colton Flores
I would be willing to argue that white and hispanic women make up the vast majority of fujos on this planet.
Benjamin Walker
>So basically, Kurisu with a dick.
Benjamin Taylor
Women seem like very good target for predatory cash shop games. The Farmville/Candy Crush fad was 90% female too.
Nolan Hernandez
>women will fuck anything as long as it's handsome or has a huge cock who is falling for a meme here again?
Julian Murphy
How do I fuck a Chinese woman? I'm tired of their island colony's knock-offs.
Nicholas Brooks
>Women seem like very good target for predatory cash shop games women are minnows when it comes to cash shop spending. i'm sure female whales exist, but all those games are made to attract rich niggas.
Joshua White
It goes both ways, just look at waifu gatcha games. No one is guiltless in this.
>Asian women might be into that shit, but white and hispanic women aren't
But Asian women are exactly who we're talking about here you autistic sperg.
Jonathan Powell
>Gentle >Rogue But these are complete opposites
Carter Gutierrez
> JMC > Jeneral Motors Chongpany
Blake Wilson
hot guys with glasses are not nerds tho
Carson Johnson
>hunky men And not surprised, don't they have a shitty ratio of women to male population? Doesn't help most asian dudes look like asian Mario.
Julian Jenkins
are nerds defined by their physical appearance or they hobbies/job?
Dylan Ramirez
Hobbies and appearance
Kayden Jones
Answer depends if you're a girl, if you're hot then you're a nerd, if you're ugly then you're just garbage
Josiah Jenkins
s you cna't be handsome and like anime/videogames and have a job in accounting?
Jonathan James
Are they supposed to be quadruplets? Can chinks not into facial structure?
Jack James
>Do you think dating sims will ever become mainstream in America/the West? You're over a decade late. That shit was all the rage back in the early to mid 2000s when people used to browse Newgrounds and even the 90s had that shit going.
Joshua Rivera
NGE is such shit besides the girls desu Anno is a hack wwwwwww
Jason Bennett
Then you’re not a nerd, just a guy with quirky hobbies :^)
Robert Howard
Dating sims are the great untapped gold mine of gaming. If you stick even the shallowest dating sim elements in your game (Persona, Bioware games, Stardew Valley) interest in it shoots up. People want a dating sim, they just don't want to feel like they're buying one because it kinda feels like buying a virtual dakimakura. Someone just needs to improve the formula and release it in a way that doesn't make people feel like losers for buying it.
Isaac Kelly
How naive, user. There's a reason why bestiality is the #1 secret fetish of females
Matthew Evans
Hopefully not. Fuck off, EOPs.
Nathaniel Edwards
nerd (n.) 1951, U.S. student slang, probably an alteration of 1940s slang nert "stupid or crazy person," itself an alteration of nut. The word turns up in a Dr. Seuss book from 1950 ("If I Ran the Zoo"), which may have contributed to its rise.
okay. world evolved obviously, still, it got very broad definition these days
Christopher Russell
Waifu/Husbando is literally the best way to life.
Lucas Lewis
Hah your dad is a cuck.
Samuel Jenkins
>Bai Qi, (the rugged police officer) None of them look rugged. Not even by Asian standards.
Colton James
i used to read a lot of garfield comics as a kid, and it really fucked with me because garfield is always calling jon a nerd, even though he's supposed to be an idiot. i thought nerd meant something completely different for a long time because of it. it's a hard life
Matthew Cox
do you know why people used to make fun of goat/sheep herders?
Evan Martin
>Fabio will die in your lifetime
Tyler Harris
He calls him a nerd because he's a simp.
Tyler Edwards
male fucking an animal is not the same as female fucking an animal, user. I'll let you figure out why.
It's because a male fucking an animal implies he can't get pussy any other way, which as always is a huge mark of shame if you are a man. Females don't have the same stigma about being unable to get laid.
Christian Morgan
they all have the same face and the same hair except that one guy has blonde hair
Hunter King
Regular reminder that there's plenty of lonely ugly Chinese women that look attractive to you because of your Asian fetish and will gladly have mongrel babies with you to get out of their shitty country
Luke Miller
t. glenn captain of the chess club
Sebastian Rodriguez
No
Zachary Robinson
>Fabio who?
Cooper Barnes
What if I want attractive Chinese women with social lives who already are out of their home country and don't want kids?
Liam Nguyen
Also honestly a vagina is a vagina, while animal dicks have all cool features
Adam Barnes
Nah I don’t have a chance
Ryder Clark
Humans are not naturally made to be monogamous, everyone here has more than one waifu/husbando. It's okay to fantasize and look at other women/men while in a relationship as long as it helps you not dip your dick/stuff your vag with someone else
If you were born after 1992, don't worry about it, he's before your time.
Colton Nelson
I was born in 1994 and my youngest friends were born in 1996 and we all know who Fabio is. Don't excuse that pissant for being underage or ignorant.
Bentley Peterson
If you can do better then go right ahead
Daniel Powell
>>Humans are not naturally made to be monogamous, Men aren't. Women want the best possible genes for their comparatively extremely limited reproductive capacity and are willing to share the best male with other women. Monogamous marriage is basically sexual socialism for betas so they'll contribute to society and get welfare pussy in return.
Gabriel Barnes
...
Kevin Smith
r/K selection m8, all brainlets who were polygamous were killed off by superior monogamous Grugs
Jonathan Robinson
>and don't want kids? I have bad news for you, they all want kids, china is very traditionalist in that aspect also cheating might mean your death or injury.
Thomas Lopez
All the Chinese foreign exchange students I met in my major seemed to be in no hurry to have kids, and the women especially seemed to be career driven. I may have just met the outliers though.
Carson Rodriguez
He's thinking of a geek, not a nerd. Nerds are just smart guys with some minor fashion flaws while Geeks are individuals who are overly passionate about a particular subject and probably dress and look like shit.
Easton Davis
If azn women did not find smart men attractive, azn average IQ would not be greater than everyone elses.
Charles Jenkins
there is a HUGE difference between average person from country and person that ACTIVELY seeks foreign education/career like immense difference
Easton Rivera
I'm gonna short circuit this entire argument with a very concrete example
Why is Loki so much more popular with women than Thor is?
Aaron Martinez
contrary to /fitmanlet/ beliefs, women actually like lanky males
Dylan Hall
>My mom is every woman on earth Epic
Brandon Gomez
Yeah, and those are the type of people in general I want to meet. Intelligent, well educated, attractive, ambitious, cultured and with good taste. I don't want some rice farmer from the Gu family and I also don't want some vapid urbanite whose only goals for the future are to marry someone who buys whatever entry-level brands she thinks are good so she can brag to her friends during her weekly mahjong games.
Lincoln Hill
This is a stupid comment since Thor is 6'4"
Jaxson Garcia
The chinese have such shitty character designs, they all look the same.
The koreans did it better with that mystic messenger thing that was popular a while back and the japs do it better with all of their otome games.
Oliver Howard
Yes, some sim date, in smartphone will looks like don't nerdy videogame console/PC
Jaxon Reyes
Bad boy aesthetic. Deep down, younger women fantasize and want a fighter whose not afraid to break the rules from time to time, not some chivalrous nice guy.
Kayden Gonzalez
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
Ryder Nelson
he is too big, not every woman has such taste, it's like if you loved muscle bodybuidler type of "girls" at least that's how I explain it, he looks great in my opinion what everyone should aspire to train
Evan Sanchez
because women have this issue with image, they realize thor is much more attractive, and thus out of their league, whereas loki is still attractive but clearly flawed and therefore within the realm of possibility.
Asher Butler
Nerd means to nerds. Smart,high dedicate, passion about science Nerd means to non-nerds Low social skill,no party and boring style.
You could be PhD but if become social and dress well people won't call you nerd.
Carson Roberts
S2 when?
Bentley Harris
Do you do character design?
Brayden Robinson
You obviously do, what do you think the in-app purchases are?