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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 5738686" data-attributes="member: 2205">Fair enough, that could be.  Where I work, the marketing profile isn't necessarily gender based either, although they do point out some numbers about how the various profile groups align with gender statistics.Frankly, a lot of the so-called female aspects of roleplaying mentioned in this thread so far are hardly feminine centric goals.  Plenty of men--myself included in many cases--prefer those kinds of games and that kind of experience as well.  I also dislike tactical combat in an RPG (although I think it's fine in tactical combat games, of which I like a few), I despise optimization play, etc.Uh... where are you getting that idea?  If you're referring to Twilight, my experience is that it's hotter than the core of the sun with middle-aged women.  Vampire Diaries is more of a teen centered show, at least in terms of the characters; I don't know that that's true for the audience.  And vampires really are a classic; I've never thought of them as a sexy teenage romanced thing, and I'd be very shocked to find that Twilight, no matter how popular, has suddenly made vampires into such.The Dracula MOVIE from the 90s made that the case; the novel itself made Dracula no such creature at all.  That's not vampires in western mythology, that's MAYBE vampires in western pop culture for the last decade or two.  Maybe.  But that's it.Dude; vampires are already selling.  Huh?I know several people personally who have picked up the hobby in middle-age, depending on what you mean by middle-aged, of course.  In their thirties, anyway.I don't get all this concern people have for The Hobby(TM) and it's survival.  I'm more concerned about my personal gaming and its survival, and if my personal gaming is largely made up of middle-aged, white men playing third edition D&D, which is out of print and still perfectly playable nonetheless, then that's fine with me.  If literally nobody else on the planet was playing anymore, about the only impact that would have on my life is that I wouldn't be posting here on these forums anymore.</blockquote>

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