It's true they are, I certainly get plenty of help offers in GW when I'm online but I'm much more of a play hard and seek my own rewards it's only when I'm truly stumped or if I'm say 50 gold short of the item I desperately need I ask my guild for help. I remember in the game I work on which is a browser based mmorpg, this one guy used to think I was truly female based on the fact that I accurately RP'd a psychotic lesbian dark elf and he showered my character in that game with lavish gifts he got from raiding other people (since upon dying everything you own that you carry is lootable from worn armour and weapon to the gold in your pocket to the potions you were training with and the flint scraper you used to treat fur pelts...combine with exp loss and it's quite harsh) he stopped when he realized I was really a guy but still it was quite odd. However for me it's just an asthetic thing, in games like Fallout it's useful because female characters are treated better, however I'll generally pick female chars even in beat em ups where they're much weaker than their male counterparts.