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The dumbest most lamest excuse is saying they made a female av because they rather look at her ass then a male av. This is so stupid to give this excuse.

The reason a male would make a female is either he wants to get over other guys like it was said in the op or this male has female tendencies and wants to act out his feminine side.  Now, you won't get an male to admit this and rightly so but these bad "macho" studs who use females in games usually have limp wrists and it ain't due to the constant use of the mouse either.

I read this part about guys who run females in games and how they supposely are expressing female tendencies in a book a while back by some professor of human behavior, guy was from some major college in some southern state.  While I don't believe all guys who run females in game are like this I will believe many are in secret anyway.

"In MMOs, women are often given special treatment by their male counterparts in-game. Problem is, that pretty elf maiden you're "just trying to help out" could really be an elf lord in disguise. AJ gives us some pointers on how to spot a faker."

Or put another way:
AJ gives us some tips to make sure the players guys help in a MMO have a vagina in real life, and not a penis. This is important because if they find out that the girl is really a guy it might mean they instantly turn gay.

So what's the next article going to be MMORPG.com?

-Ways to make your male roleplaying full of testosterone?

-Ways to keep the little old misses in the MMORPG kitchen?

-Best way to say the word fag and have it understood in the right way?

Once again the MMORPG.com editorial staff has shown they put no thought into their writing and who it might actually affect. Bravo!

Originally posted by sololoco

The dumbest most lamest excuse is saying they made a female av because they rather look at her ass then a male av. This is so stupid to give this excuse.

The reason a male would make a female is either he wants to get over other guys like it was said in the op or this male has female tendencies and wants to act out his feminine side.  Now, you won't get an male to admit this and rightly so but these bad "macho" studs who use females in games usually have limp wrists and it ain't due to the constant use of the mouse either.

I read this part about guys who run females in games and how they supposely are expressing female tendencies in a book a while back by some professor of human behavior, guy was from some major college in some southern state.  While I don't believe all guys who run females in game are like this I will believe many are in secret anyway.

 

 

Of course, you are free to belive what you want. Dosent make it true though eh?

Lets get this straight, the artical isnt a daming piece on guys playing female avatars, you can do this honestly and openly, it's about guys who fake being girls. This has a lot more to do with the behaviour demonstarted. I have played female avatars, though I in no way adopt 'female' personality traits when I do so (to accept the existance of stereotypes and cliches for the sake of the point).

Why do I sometimes play female toons? Well, girl avatars usually *do* look cooler then male avatars, and anyhows it's nice to have a change. This is probably beacause the artists that drew them are usually guys and most male artists vastly enjoy drawing the female form, so I guess that explains why that's true.

Have you ever played Tomb Raider? Perfect Dark? Are the millions of guys who enjoyed playing these avatars fey represed homosexuals or transexuals (as you seem to infer guys playing female toons to be)? Noone even seems to question playing these games as a girl, but they seem to be hung up on MMORPGs. Again, this supports it all being about the behaviour shown and not the 'gender' of the avatar.

So, in short...

Guys playing girl toons is ok by me.

Guys pretending to be girls by exhibiting girly behaviour to gain stuff is just wrong, though part of me blames the sap for giving the stuff in the stupid hope they get a gamer GF rather then the gurl hinself.

I agree with allmost ewerything in the article... There aint many "real" girls in mmorpgs but theres plenty of fakers.I personally made a female character in silk road (cus all the guys looked so dumb) and levelled it to lvl 37, then went killing noobs and they were really humilitied (i dont know if that written right... ) "to be owned by a girl", but i didnt got any special treatment cus "i were a girl charakter".

Originally posted by sleepyguyftl

"In MMOs, women are often given special treatment by their male counterparts in-game. Problem is, that pretty elf maiden you're "just trying to help out" could really be an elf lord in disguise. AJ gives us some pointers on how to spot a faker."

Or put another way:
AJ gives us some tips to make sure the players guys help in a MMO have a vagina in real life, and not a penis. This is important because if they find out that the girl is really a guy it might mean they instantly turn gay.

So what's the next article going to be MMORPG.com?

-Ways to make your male roleplaying full of testosterone?

-Ways to keep the little old misses in the MMORPG kitchen?

-Best way to say the word fag and have it understood in the right way?

 

Once again the MMORPG.com editorial staff has shown they put no thought into their writing and who it might actually affect. Bravo!

(there has yet to be an MMO where you gain XP for dancing). 

Star Wars Galaxies has always allowed entertainers to gain XP from dancing.  That title has been out for years.  Dancing is one of the fastest ways to level a toon from 1-90 in the game.

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4. Dancing
dancing is just tedious and distracting (there has yet to be an