RL female playing male chars

That's a good reason of course Wish you luck and happiness.

I wonder what reasons others have. Come on, post!

I myself tried to play male toons in two other games, to see how it goes, but had a hard time identifying with them, so I deleted them after some time. I exclusively play female toons.

I played a male archer in Sanctuary, got him up to lvl 41, but haven't played him since I switched to Harshlands.

Like other guys who say that they choose to play female characters because they'd like to have something nice to look at if they're playing for long hours, I also thought the same thing so I chose to create a cute guy character. Got bored with him later on though especially since ppl don't seem to be as friendly towards guy characters and I tried to make him over, but I ended up **** it up and making him look like a drag queen. b:chuckle

Well, in this mmorpg and in others, I've heard that some women choose a male character so they don't get hit on as much.

Garnetstorm's observations:

I've heard of guys saying that they play female characters to have something nice to look at, but I've never heard of a female admit to playing a male character for something nice to look at.


As for BridgetF's observations:

The constant competition and the being on your own much more; being a male playing a mostly male characters, I tend to solo a lot. Personally, I'm not into the competition vs. other characters as much as many other males, but I have noticed that my venomancer is the only character that has never gotten a random duel request; if I'm on any of my male characters for ANY length of time, I get random duel requests. For the most part, I think males tend to be more aloof towards other males, but the animal instinct makes males more attentive to females.

Other toons' positioning, as I pretty much do my own thing, when I'm at an npc, my positioning is entirely dependant on the angle I approached the npc (and other person's angle of approach). Since I like to think that I have better control over my hormones, think that I have a level of respect for females, and realize that it's a game, I don't intentionally stand close to a female toon, just to think that I'm 'close' to a female. And on my venomancer, I've never really taken notice of others' positioning (might be because, as a male, I don't have to worry as much about that in RL). On the other hand, my venomancer has had a person say that they loved me, and my character wasn't more than 10 seconds old, and also gets random embrace requests. Only one of my male characters got a random embrace request (only once), and the person said that they needed chi.

Also, the part of being asked to help more ... since I don't usually play female characters, I can't really compare male vs. female character experience, but, in other mmorpgs I've played, I've often been asked for help (which I do when I am able).

Use of abbreviated words, I haven't thought about, so I haven't noticed.

BridgetF - Heavens Tear wrote: »

And funny enough, people used to abbreviate their words a lot more... I'm a translator in RL so words are my job. To me it seemed that males tend to throw around heavily abbreviated words, whereas girls tend to have a better writing style. Just my observation.

Interesting. I've noticed that too, but I know that I abbreviate more when I have to say something quickly or long and know I don't have much space for it. I study linguistics in RL so that interests me too. Haha, we could do a study. =P

BridgetF - Heavens Tear wrote: »

True; people treat male toons differently, they're usually not as friendly towards them. I couldn't succeed in a man's world. Erm... I mean, I couldn't succeed as a man in the world. But it was worth the experiment.

I mean, playing a male toon changed my behavior a bit. It was interesting, psychologically. It's like I tell the world "I am male now, treat me as a male, and I'll treat you like a male does in return", but really, the male world can be so cruel... It's like a constant competition. You're on your own much more.

It was fascinating to observe, really. When I played a male toon, people didn't position their toons as close to me. I got helped less but got asked to help a lot more. And funny enough, people used to abbreviate their words a lot more... I'm a translator in RL so words are my job. To me it seemed that males tend to throw around heavily abbreviated words, whereas girls tend to have a better writing style. Just my observation. Maybe this helps this thread a bit, I don't know. To summarize and to answer the thread's question (again), I played a male toon to see if I could survive as a man in the world, and if I could identify with my toon. I got negative results for both - I'm better off with my own gender.

Er....Im starting to understand why in some other games I used to play, people always thought I was a girl (Which Im not)

As for girls playing male chars, Ive met a few people whove done it and I asked them why out of curiosity. One of them told me she used to play a game where all the characters were male, so she just got used to playing male characters

Another one told me she would get attacked more often with a male char than with a female char, and since she liked PvP, she would spend a lot of time playing her male char

Another reason Ive heard is that theyre sick of guys flirting with them, so they play a male char to be spared the agony

This one I found a bit strange though. One of my friends told me that she played a male char so people would stop flirting with her, but then told me she had actually lied when she said that, and the real reason she did it was out of curiosity, but was too ashamed to tell me that. I find it strange because I would have never expected a girl to be ashamed of playing a male character

The only male character I had on PW, was the Barbarian. I just wanted to try out the White Tiger skill, then I got bored with it.

Honestly, I don't see the point. Sure, some guys may think 'Why do you need a girlfriend when you got PW and your hand'. But still.