Girl EQ2 Gamers?Follow

I'm a girl gamer, and I LOVE online games. I'm currently playing FFXI, EQ2 and WoW. Although I'm semi-retired from FFXI (haven't played in two weeks but still have account), and I'm trying to decide between EQ2 and WoW before the trial periods expire.

All of my main characters are female, but I do experiment with males characters once in a while. However, I prefer female characters because I like making characters that resemble me IRL (helps me immerse myself into the game I guess). Sometimes I will play a male character if I like the way a particular character looks, lol. But I usually get tired of that pretty quick.

For those who are interested, I saw an article on line that did a survey of gamer demographics. I can't find the link anymore so I'll have to quote from memory.

It said that about 16% of EQ1 players are female. However, I suspect that percentage has gone up in recent years as more girls have been introduced to the social aspects of online gaming. It also mentioned that about 50% of female characters are actually played by girls.

Edited, Mon Dec 6 14:02:40 2004 by Sonnette

I'm a girl! :( Unfortunately, I live with a bunch of guys who play most of the same games I do (EQ, EQII, PSO) and so no one believes I'm a real girl because *gasp* all the guys play female characters and try to masquerade as girls. I haven't gotten it on EQII at all and I have to say the worst was/is PSO.

Thank you for providing that link runyariel. Lots of interesting information there that I didn't know about. Here is the link to the article that I was referencing.

http://www.nickyee.com/eqt/genderbend.html

I found the comments by survey participants to be particularly interesting. Definitely worth a peek.

I don't think I could play an ugly race. I might try playing an ogre tank just for fun, but I would probably want to be an ugly male ogre, lol.



Edited, Mon Dec 6 17:32:36 2004 by Sonnette

1) Never pick a race by looks, pick by how interesting they appear from an RP sense or if they have some outstanding stats

2) Always play male characters except for once in a great while

3) Think Iksar guys are strangely sexy (it's the tail)

4) Think trolls are hilarious and so ugly they're cute in...an ugly way (like bull dogs?)

5) I don't want my main character to look like me, I see enough of me IRL

6)I'm not your run of the mill spend 6 hours on hair type of girl. I listen to black metal, doom metal, have a hard labor job, and have no patience for the typical "girly" things like...shopping. (I hate buying clothes and shoes and stuff, waste of my money as I see it..would rather buy a game or music :P )

7) Am lucky enough to have a husband that likes me for the way I am instead of wanting a "normal" girl.

I am a guy IRL and I made the terrible mistake of choosing a girl character in eq1 as my main. One thing that it did is show me how annoying it must be at times to be a girl playing these games. You get treated TOTALLY different, half the people dont think you can play your character well, and then the frisky woodelf males hitting on ya all the time, good lord! Please dont let them discourage you girls. =)

I think its great to see more girl gamers but I have to wonder... of those girl gamers how many are single? Seems most are married... tho I did know one from eq1 that was not married... and was cute btw (for those that say cute girls dont play games). Anyway, I say keep em comin. MMORPGs need all varieties of people and both girls and boys to make the world rich and interesting.

Otun - LVL15 Bard - Kithicor

I'm a female and fit into the catorgry of 'hardcore gamer'. I amaze most male friends with my severe geek-ness, but I do work in a video game store (only female employee) so it is my job to be a gaming nerd...

Here's a sample of my games collection:

What I have found:

Girls playing MMORPGS = Common.

Girls not playing with a husband, boyfriend = rare.

For the record, I don't play with anyone I know.

I almost always play female characters, I guess I can relate to them better. Sometimes I try to make them look like me, if I can. I usually try to make them pretty though ;) Actually there was a bizare combination of that once. In SWG I spend an hour making what I thought was the most beautiful woman in the world, I thought this character was perfect looking. Then my Dad walked in and said, "Wow, it's you? How did you get the character on the screen to look just like you?"
... Then I didn't know what to think, it was a little disturbing, lol.

However, in all the games like this I have played, I've never felt that I have been treated different or hit on, or treated like a moron or anything like that. Most people asume I am male until I say otherwise, but you get that. I have played Anarchy Online (my first, has a special place in my heart), Dark Age of Camelot, Neocron, Star Wars Galaxies and FFXI.

Ooh! Here's a pic of my gaming area and all my consoles, if anyone cares:
Ah crap, just smeared my nailpolish on my work keyboard :(

Edited, Mon Dec 6 22:18:55 2004 by Brunhilde

im a guy but i tell people im a girl so they cyber with me =(

I wish i could get my girlfriend into EQ2, well gaming at all would be a start. She thinks im sad for playing EQ2 and constantly takes the **** out of me for doing so.

So if any of you fancy taking her place then give me a yell!!

I too make my toon based one looks. My main is a wood elf-and I tried to get her as close as possible as far as facial features-her eyes arn't big and round enough though. She has blue eyes, blonde hair, my hair is starght and to my butt...they don't have anything like that style in EQ2-so I had to improvise(with the style of half up in pig tails and the rest down-which I have done before in RL.) My dark elf has as blonde as I could get with a style I wear all the time in my house-that kinda ponytail bun type style..with some srands hanging out-my hubby says I look sexy like that in RL-so I put it on my toon. Dispite her having blue skin and dark pinkish-purple eyes-she looks remarkably like me(says my hubby), I wish more then just half elves had piercings-I have my nose and eyebrow donein RL(as well as tounge and bellybutton) and would like to have had them on my toons-but oh well. :P Same with tattoos(I have 3)-although wood elves have shrouds-I did not pick one.
I can't play a animal or trolls and orges, unless it is purely to have fun, and run around. I had a froglock on EQ1.
As far as the flirting goes-my first toon was a high elf entchanter in EQOA-within a week I had a guy(barbarian named Razor) ran by me and said "Hey, you're pretty cute" I said thank you and went on my way. From there he would ask to group with me and the flirting started to get outta hand. Being new to the online gaming(EQOA was first taste)-I didn't want to be rude but was trying hard to get rid of him...my friend(male) had to tell him to stop bothering me which resulted in a "fight", Razor started sending me rude tells, and I put him on ignor. I earsed my toon and made a new one(dark elf necro) he didnt ever bother her, or realize that my freind(the guy he had an argument with about me) that was always with my enchant and, was now always with my Dark elf, lol. We ran into him alot too. So that was my first aweful flirting experience so far.
I can't play with my hubby in game-because we only have one computer, so I am with the girls that are in the same boat-would be great if we could play together.
And, so far have not had anyone flirt with me in EQ2. ;)

seriously though

i dont see how it really matters

but i hate it when guys defend girls just because there a girl, like they're gonna get some or something ya know even if the girl is stupid

its like wtf

my sentiments, exactly, ivven :).

i don't mind guildies acting gallant, or helping me out, since we all help each other. however, random spoots giving me things just because i'm female is condescending, and it's relatively easy to tell when that's the reason for the gift :x.

kindness and chivalry are fine. chauvinism is irritating.

LOL good question! I am a female and I do very occasionally play a male character. If I get annoyed with the constant "Are you REALLY a chick????" comments then I'll switch to a male character..... FAR less irritation there. LOL although I think it's painfully obvious I'm a chick playing a guy.... or at least *I* think so. I know some females who play male characters and we have a GREAT time messing around with roleplay... muwahahahaha!

interesting question Ivven!

Forgot to add... I play with my husband and we have an incredible time! Roleplaying two big fat ogres who think they're sexy is just too much fun. I assume when a female character joins us it is indeed a female playing and likewise for the male characters. I'm not sure WHY, but I am guilty of assuming. Of course when I see a Erudite male I think they're chiks too, bwahahahaha! Anyway, I have been surprised to learn that several of the "men" I played with were in fact FEMALES, they really played it off well!

Edited, Tue Dec 7 19:31:07 2004 by optycalillusion