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Iris
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posted June 20, 2006 03:55 PM |
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Guys Pretending to be Girls in MMORPGs
A lot of people claim that girls can easily get free stuff, and I believe this applies to real life and the gaming world. A while ago, I was talking to a male friend of mine about MMORPGs. He created a female human archer in FFXI, and according to him, he gets a lot more attention from the other random players and will randomly have people offer him stuff to play with them.
It's interesting, because from what I've seen, when a girl plays a game of any sort, she'll almost always choose to be a girl. This applies to other things on the internet, too. For example, girls will pretty much always choose an avatar with a girl on it.  There are exceptions, of course, but I think that's a pretty safe generalization.
So my question to you Diablo, Warcraft, FFXI, etc. players, have you ever played a female character (or encountered someone who does this)? If yes, what does it feel like? And if no, how do you feel about the people who do? Or do you not care?
And do you when you see a female character or avatar, do you automatically assume the person is a girl?
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Lith-Maethor
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posted June 20, 2006 04:12 PM |
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actually...
not quite true...
during my time in World of WarCraft (yes yes, I have been there, then wisened up and left) I encountered many girls that played male characters in order to avoid exactly the sort of (unwanted?) attention being a girl brings, in such circles
on the other hand, when my GF was playing WoW she managed to get a truckload of free stuff just cause she was a girl
(eventually we both quit since it is impossible to RP in WoW, since Blizzard itself won't respect the WarCraft methos... logical if you consider the team behind WarCraft left before WoW)
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Rhodan
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posted June 21, 2006 02:01 PM |
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Edited by Rhodan at 14:01, 21 Jun 2006.
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It looks like a good strategy to me. Get gifts and watch the female body you control.
In the long run it'd get back on me as I didn't play as Rhodan though.
Winning a Heroes of Might and Magic III game because the opponent pities girls. *No stereotyping here*
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Lord_Woock
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posted June 21, 2006 10:45 PM |
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What I don't understand, is why anyone would find this surprising to any degree.
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RedSoxFan3
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posted June 22, 2006 07:40 AM |
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Well in World of Warcraft it was true initially, but after the first couple months people realized that a lot of guys play girls.
I personally started a Night Elf Female character. I also started a Human Female character which for the first few levels I just ran around without any armor on, cause there was no point. And not wearing armor, means all you are wearing is underwear. Well this dumbass decided to follow me around and he wouldn't go away after I told him to bug off.
So yeah there are stupid desperate guys online.
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TitaniumAlloy
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posted June 22, 2006 02:22 PM |
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In Guild Wars, the female characters are so blatantly modelled for males, but not even half of them are actually female players.
The point of the game is to have at least 2 characters, and alot of people will have 6. My friend has 12. But he's not your average. 
All 4 of mine are male, because I feel a bit gay running around with skimpy steel armoured boob tubes on hacking up dragons, call me strange if you will.
But alot of people will have both genders, for no other reason than diversity.
But then you have those guys/girls/who knows who will strip down to their lingerie (which is what some female characters wear in guild wars) and dance about in towns, but hey, what can I say.
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russ
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posted June 27, 2006 09:33 PM |
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Edited by russ at 22:23, 27 Jun 2006.
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I was playing UO (Ultima Online) for a long time and many girls would play both male and female chars. When asked "why?", most of them replied "well, I decided to try it out", or "I dunno why, it was an experiment", or just "I dunno, I started him a long time ago". Those answers left me even more confused than I was before asking those questions, so I stopped asking.
Out of about a few years of PLAYING UO (If you combine all the time I was playing UO, you'd get YEARS and I am not joking), I've spent about 20 hours playing female chars on the Test Server. All my chars on regular servers were guys. Even though it was quite pointless to give any gifts on the test server (it was wiped regularly), there was One Thing that really stunned me: the overall attitude towards me has improved from about -10 to about +10. Instead of "omfg, you stupid noob, I pwn j00, go die irl!!!1!1!11!!!!", I would get very polite questions/answers nearly all the time. It actually felt really really gay knowing that all those desperate antisocial teenagers are so polite to me because they see a pack of animated boobies on their screen, so I've never really played a girl char again (other than a few times I couldn't resist looking at the animation myself, haha!).
Btw, I was playing Runescape last year and I noticed that many kids are starting to catch the trend. You'd often get a naked low-level "girl" with a name like "Sexae6453" following you around saying smth like "giv me fri stuf and I'll seks u up", or "I'm new, cna u hlp me awt?", or "looking for bf". The most interesting thing I observed was that no matter how old and used up the "virtual gf" trick was, many times the online "sexaes" ARE successful!
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Aculias
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posted June 27, 2006 10:11 PM |
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Girls can get free online dates on here with any guy
Well or woman.
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dkolb
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posted August 29, 2006 08:29 AM |
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There used to be a game called Phantasy Star Online for Dreamcast and that used to be hilarious to play because you'd get like this one girl surrounded by like 10 guys killing monsters for her and I just ran off and killed monsters myself and got all the treasure, and one time like the entire group of them got killed by the monsters so I just came back later and looted there stuff and ran away, it was pretty fun actually.
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bjorn190
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posted August 29, 2006 11:15 AM |
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I had a friend who had a dream - to make a pet monkey play his character all day so that he could do other stuff while he grinded xp. Well, turns out the real problem was not how to get the monkey to play but how to get him to stop.
Monkeys are kinda strong.. Well, now the monkey has his own computer, and plays a level 60 Paladin on a european server that I wont mention.. So what about monkeys pretending to be ppl on MMORPG?
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