Originally posted by GwapoJosh

Originally posted by Brabbit1987

Originally posted by GwapoJosh
Many people think that a guy playing a girl toon is creepy..  I'm guilty of that;)  My daughter likes to watch me play and I let her make the toon on every game I play lol

I never understood why some guys think it's creepy. It's just a game. It's no different then playinga single player game featureing a girl as it's main character. You know like umm that Tomb Raider game that became so big.

Tomb Raider always pops into my head also when I think about this subject hehe..  My daughter may only be 4 years old but she seems to call the shots most of the time /grin

There's a pretty significant difference between Tomb Raider and an MMO.  Your virtual character does represent yourself (or a character)  to other people.  I would guess that the people who are bothered by it or assume they know the sex of a person based on a character came to the genre from something other than RPG's.

Originally posted by grimfall

Originally posted by Brabbit1987

Hmmm ... creepy. Well, my X boyfriend used to hit on so many girls in mmorpgs and try to roleplay sex with them. So I used to create new character and lead him on and then go all psycho crazy on him. Then about a few hours later I would tell him it was me XD. Think I done that to him to many times to count. He always falls for it too.

 

Edit: Oh I also once almost got him to drive to some unkown location thinking he was going to pick up some girl.

Um, I don't want to go all Oprah on you here, but maybe you shoudl find a new boyfriend?

I can honestly say I haven't ever done any of this stuff.  I do make some female characters.  Never was a problem until playing TOR just before it went FTP and some kid tried to hit on me and then got mad when I told him I was a man.

Eeehhh.....yea.  I'm not buying that post.  Sorry.  Just no.  That's just....no. 

Once I was on my warrior in vanilla WoW and was bored in Ironforge. Then a random guy ran past me to the auction house. I thought "I'm going to follow that guy." Then I followed him around his business in Ironforge for maybe 5-10 minutes before I could tell he realised he was being followed.

Then he started running around in various places trying to lose me to no avail. He then whispered "Why are you following me?!?!" but I didn't reply. He continued trying to lose me but was unsuccesful. I then thought I'd pretend to lose track of him as he headed towards the bank by hiding around a corner and then peeking out to see where he went.

I hid outside the bank when he went in. A few minutes after he came out, thinking he'd successfully thrown me off, I was instantly on his tail again. He whispered me "NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"

Unfortunately I had to go a few minutes later, so I had to log out shortly after that.

Originally posted by Axxar

Once I was on my warrior in vanilla WoW and was bored in Ironforge. Then a random guy ran past me to the auction house. I thought "I'm going to follow that guy." Then I followed him around his business in Ironforge for maybe 5-10 minutes before I could tell he realised he was being followed.

Then he started running around in various places trying to lose me to no avail. He then whispered "Why are you following me?!?!" but I didn't reply. He continued trying to lose me but was unsuccesful. I then thought I'd pretend to lose track of him as he headed towards the bank by hiding around a corner and then peeking out to see where he went.

I hid outside the bank when he went in. A few minutes after he came out, thinking he'd successfully thrown me off, I was instantly on his tail again. He whispered me "NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"

Unfortunately I had to go a few minutes later, so I had to log out shortly after that.

This made me LOL hard. Can't get much creepier than stalking someone and not saying a word to them.  You probably gave some poor kid nightmares, you know the one where your being chased and it just keeps going and going and...

Originally posted by GwapoJosh

Originally posted by grimfall

Originally posted by GwapoJosh

Tomb Raider always pops into my head also when I think about this subject hehe..  My daughter may only be 4 years old but she seems to call the shots most of the time /grin

There's a pretty significant difference between Tomb Raider and an MMO.  Your virtual character does represent yourself (or a character)  to other people.  I would guess that the people who are bothered by it or assume they know the sex of a person based on a character came to the genre from something other than RPG's.

Dumbest thing I've read in a while.. Thanks

I think what he said made perfect sense.  I am not against guys making girl characters and visa versa because it is all in good fun in the end.  Still, it is a different manner because a) in tomb raider you do not chose your gender.  b) in tomb raider you are controlling a character with a story and her own name.  In a mmo you are creating a character to represent yourself.  c) in a mmo you are communicating with other players thus gender has an effect on that communication (where as in a single player game gender would have absolutely no effect on gameplay).

There are plenty of reasons to make a female character.  The most popular being that you are bored of male characters, you have to look at your character all day and you prefer looking at the female form, or you associate yourself or feel like acting out a female role (regardless of if that female role is feminine or masculine).

PS: Gwapo your post might get moderated, posts like that often do because they are critical of another user without contributing analysis.

Originally posted by Axxar

Once I was on my warrior in vanilla WoW and was bored in Ironforge. Then a random guy ran past me to the auction house. I thought "I'm going to follow that guy." Then I followed him around his business in Ironforge for maybe 5-10 minutes before I could tell he realised he was being followed.

Then he started running around in various places trying to lose me to no avail. He then whispered "Why are you following me?!?!" but I didn't reply. He continued trying to lose me but was unsuccesful. I then thought I'd pretend to lose track of him as he headed towards the bank by hiding around a corner and then peeking out to see where he went.

I hid outside the bank when he went in. A few minutes after he came out, thinking he'd successfully thrown me off, I was instantly on his tail again. He whispered me "NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"

Unfortunately I had to go a few minutes later, so I had to log out shortly after that.

This is funny, but genuinely hasn't everyone done this in wow at one point or other whilst bored? 

Originally posted by wormywyrm

Originally posted by GwapoJosh

Originally posted by grimfall

Originally posted by GwapoJosh

Tomb Raider always pops into my head also when I think about this subject hehe..  My daughter may only be 4 years old but she seems to call the shots most of the time /grin

There's a pretty significant difference between Tomb Raider and an MMO.  Your virtual character does represent yourself (or a character)  to other people.  I would guess that the people who are bothered by it or assume they know the sex of a person based on a character came to the genre from something other than RPG's.

Dumbest thing I've read in a while.. Thanks

I think what he said made perfect sense.  I am not against guys making girl characters and visa versa because it is all in good fun in the end.  Still, it is a different manner because a) in tomb raider you do not chose your gender.  b) in tomb raider you are controlling a character with a story and her own name.  In a mmo you are creating a character to represent yourself.  c) in a mmo you are communicating with other players thus gender has an effect on that communication (where as in a single player game gender would have absolutely no effect on gameplay).

There are plenty of reasons to make a female character.  The most popular being that you are bored of male characters, you have to look at your character all day and you prefer looking at the female form, or you associate yourself or feel like acting out a female role (regardless of if that female role is feminine or masculine).

PS: Gwapo your post might get moderated, posts like that often do because they are critical of another user without contributing analysis.

I'm not a roleplayer so what you say is bull to me.. My toon is not me.. I'm perfectly ok with the person i am in real life. I don't make a toon in a MMO to get away from reality. 

Some really creepy (but awesome) RP was going on Fallen Earth a fiew years ago.

Some of us knows.... I can't say much... the nightmares still haunts me...

( Fallen Earth allows some great great RP experience for a MMORPG... think it was my favorite RPing in a video game of all time.)

Originally posted by GwapoJosh

I'm not a roleplayer so what you say is bull to me.. My toon is not me.. I'm perfectly ok with the person i am in real life. I don't make a toon in a MMO to get away from reality. 

If you are not creating an avatar to represent your characters appearance to yourself to other players, what is happening during the character creation process?  What is its purpose?  If it has no purpose, do you simply choose at random and click quickly through the character creation screen?

Originally posted by grimfall

Originally posted by Brabbit1987

Hmmm ... creepy. Well, my X boyfriend used to hit on so many girls in mmorpgs and try to roleplay sex with them. So I used to create new character and lead him on and then go all psycho crazy on him. Then about a few hours later I would tell him it was me XD. Think I done that to him to many times to count. He always falls for it too.

 

Edit: Oh I also once almost got him to drive to some unkown location thinking he was going to pick up some girl.

Um, I don't want to go all Oprah on you here, but maybe you shoudl find a new boyfriend?

I can honestly say I haven't ever done any of this stuff.  I do make some female characters.  Never was a problem until playing TOR just before it went FTP and some kid tried to hit on me and then got mad when I told him I was a man.

New boyfriend? Reread my post and you will notice the "x" before boyfriend. 

  I would make friends in U.O. Get them to trust me,

and then lead them into gang bangs in deciet where my guild was waiting to rape them.

Can't tell you how many people where dumb enough to carry around deeds.

In fact, that's how my guild got our first tower.

  To compound it I played a firey blond female half elf healer who was way on the wildside(table dancing, drinking till puking, tatoo's and piercing. snorting cocain, you name it, It wasn;t a fun night until she ended up in the emergency room.

Think of her as cross between Jackie Chan drunken moneky meets Kate Middleton's Alter ego healer.

Oh you meant in a game....

   Well I once stayed with this farmer who had this hottie daughter and.... well mayby this anit the place for that kind of story.

It's interesting that some mmo players are deeply creeped out by what was (once upon a time) standard roleplay.

Purpose of roleplay? To assume a role that's not just-you-with-a-different-name? Good practice, in fact, is assuming a role that's as thoroughly unlike yourself as possible.

Unpaid acting, for fun, that's the entire point.

For example: If a freaking enormous Tauren species with horns and a huge...battle axe...isn't (homophobically) creepy, but a pixelated female of your (real) species makes you skeeve?...  ... ... See the psychiatrist in room 604, please. You just might have some unresolved sexuality (or even beastiality) issues to work out.

Originally posted by Brabbit1987

Originally posted by GwapoJosh
Many people think that a guy playing a girl toon is creepy..  I'm guilty of that;)  My daughter likes to watch me play and I let her make the toon on every game I play lol

I never understood why some guys think it's creepy. It's just a game. It's no different then playinga single player game featureing a girl as it's main character. You know like umm that Tomb Raider game that became so big.

It's only creepy to guys looking for cyber-affairs.

Anyone sane should have no prob wit hit indeed :p

I loved being a lesbian cannibalist... :D

I was trying to innocently quest in Stonetalon Mountains in WoW and got a quest to rescue frightened peons from a mine. I went to a peon, clicked him, and he said "Oof! You touch naughty spot!", but I god credit towards the quest so I went to next peon. Again same reaction when I clicked him "Oof! You touch naughty spot!".

I wasn't really doing anything creepy (at least intentionally), but I was honestly creeped out. Why did Blizzard write that answer to the peons when they are rescued? What exactly was my character doing to rescue those peons?

Quest was "And That's Why They Call Them Peons", http://www.wowhead.com/quest=26047/and-thats-why-they-call-them-peons