Playing Chicks

[Pike]

I don't have a problem with other people playing characters outside their gender. I've known tons of Manthras in FFXI. Like MILF says you just play what you want to play. It's just a game. What bothers me is when they get really into the role and pretend like they are girls playing girls. I've known some people in FFXI who did this and it creeped me out.

When I was playing WoW there was someone in our guild for quite some time who not only ever played as girls but also told everyone he was a girl in real life for months. He had a whole "fake backstory" about his real name, relationship status, and everything. He finally let the truth bombshell drop not long before we made him get in Vent for a raid, needless to say it was rather disorienting especially because he had this tendency to "flirt" with anyone and everyone, supposedly in a bid to appear more girlish or something. I dunno. It was really weird.

Later he left and rerolled on another server, where last I heard he'd convinced the entire server that he was a girl again.

[Mo-Nercy]

In Mario Party I always, ALWAYS use Peach, just to be a troll.

I have no idea why I do this, but I do it too.

[VeloZer0]

While people are telling funny guy/girl MMO stories.

My friend played a female priest and never pretended to be a girl. However after grouping with this one guy from a far more prominent guild a few times he noticed that said guy was always really nice to him and always wanted to group. After a little bit we figured it out, he must think he was a girl and have a loser crush on him. He was going to say something, but we all thought it was hilarious and told him that he didn't have to play along, but he couldn't give himself away either.
Then whenever he was offline people would log on to his account and be mildly flirty with this guy, and he kept getting strung along. He must have thought my friend was playing hard to get because sometimes he was super nice and others he was really indifferent. And my friend could never figure out why this guy wouldn't leave him alone. (Though he did get a whole bunch of loot out of it)

[G13]

I don't play MMOs, but my Spartan on Halo Reach is male. People tend to go after the girls and teabag them just because.

Yeah, if I see a girl playing Halo I attack with a burning rage.

That game brings out the worst in me.

[Del Murder]

I once knew a brother-sister team that played FFXI together. The brother played a female and the sister played a male, and they would be totally in character. She called her brother 'sister' and would get mad at people who called her 'she'. They had a third sibling that was a guy playing a female character but was up front about it. Then he 'outed' the other two and they got really mad at him and stopped partying with him. Weird family...

[Loony BoB]

Man, this thread is awesome for the stories that have come out of it.

[NorthernChaosGod]

I don't play MMOs, but my Spartan on Halo Reach is male. People tend to go after the girls and teabag them just because.

Yeah, if I see a girl playing Halo I attack with a burning rage.

That game brings out the worst in me.

You're like one of my RL friends. Anytime we play together and finds a girl on either team, he'll yell out something to the effect "It's a bitch! Get her!" And then just bag her the rest of the match.

[Jessweeee♪]

In every game I'll play as a female given the choice, unless there's some guy-exclusive content/advantages to change things up.

[AngelWings8]

In the past I've played free MMOs, and only played WoW for a month or two. I almost always play a female healer/cleric type. Don't know why...I just always play female because I am one? And a healer maybe because I don't like being in the front lines and had gotten used to being the team's healer.

[Shlup]

I pretty much always play a female character, though whether or not it's a pretty female character depends on a few things. In Warhammer Online I played a male mostly, because I wanted to play a goblin and there are no female goblins.

I can usually avoid getting hit on in games because I play MMOs with my RL friends (and husband) so I'm always already with a group of people I know IRL.

[Miriel]

I was introduced to someone in FFXI by another EoFFer and that person ended up doing the whole, guy playing as a girl but really pretending to BE a girl thing, but the really weird part about it was that he got like DEEP into it. I think he got himself a boyfriend. Whenever we would play together, he would be like, "You can't tell anyone, ok? OK?? TELL NO ONE!!"

And later on I saw him posting on a forum (as a girl) about how messed up it is when guys pretend to be girls. O_o

Some serious cognitive dissonance going on there.

I always play as a girl. But I never get hit on. I can't really remember an instance when I was hit on while playing FFXI and I played that game for years. Maybe I just don't give off the whole, "hit on me" vibe.

[escobert]

I have noticed a trend where females IRL tend to exclusively roll females in games.

I met quite a few girls that played a Galka in FFXI (a male only race), simply for the fact that they hated guys hitting on them, lol.

Anyways, I don't care what I pick but I usually just go with a dude.

I gt hit on a lot in GW I dunno why guys just assume I'm a girl because my toon is a girl

[Pike]

I got hit on a few times when I was playing WoW. 90% of the time when it happened I was on my female tauren (as opposed to my female night elf or something.) Yeah I dunno either.

Best story to come out of that? The guy with the fart fetish, who spent about an hour trying to track me down in game so I could /fart on him. The only way I finally got him to go away was by telling him I was actually a guy. Completely false, but hey, it worked.

[Rostum]

When I was playing WoW there was someone in our guild for quite some time who not only ever played as girls but also told everyone he was a girl in real life for months. He had a whole "fake backstory" about his real name, relationship status, and everything.

We had a guy like that join our linkshell on FFXI, and I believe he was a member on these forums as well. Turned out he was a real a-hole too.

[KentaRawr!]

In MMOs, the character you play as, to me, is kind of like your "avatar". It represents a bit about you, so I feel obligated to make a guy, unless there are some clear gameplay differences.

In offline games though, I'm totally fine with making a female character. It's kinda cool, like I'm playing through the story of an independent woman's adventures throughout the world.