Should Female Gamers Receive Special Bonuses?

Female players of online strategy game Prime World are to be offered perks and incentives in order to encourage more women to play.

Prime World is a League of Legends-style game pitting teams of varyingly tooled-up combatants against one another. It also involves skill-building mini-games. In an interview with Penny Arcade, Larisa Nuretdinova, creative producer at Nival explained, "The idea is to introduce the MOBA genre not only to hardcore players who already love it, but to their friends who might be more casual, and of course to their sisters and girlfriends who may not be as hardcore."



Gameplay bonuses go to teams made up of a mixture of male and female players. "To do the very best, you'll want a female player on your team," Nuretdinova explained. "When boys gather around to play games just with each other, it's not really social. When girls gather around just to chat, it's not very social. The social starts when they hang out together and play games together," In order to discourage cheating, player accounts are connected to Facebook profiles.

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