The Darker Side of MMO'sFollow

That is crazy...to think that crossdessing is the true dark side of MMO's :P sure i play a female character every now and then...but its not like i try and do anything. That is just the worst idea possible imo...ahh well back to waiting for morning to come...lol

so, umm, does this mean that women playing male characters is wrong as well, or is this just another part of the modern hypocrisy from today's society and standards?

ok, rant is now set to OFF position, but seriously, I do think this is the dumbest move that a company could do.

"If I have to stare at this toons *** for 60+ levels its at least going to be a good looking one." This was a comment made by a male playing a female toon in WOW once. I don't see a problem with playing toons of the opposite sex as long as your not trying to do anything weird. I won't go into examples of weird but I am sure most can imagine a few things that come to mind.

If a game was based off mature content I could see perhaps banning it. For example that game Second Life which is kinda geared towards on-line dating (I guess?). A guy playing a girl toon and trying to find a BF would be kinda nasty.

I actually remember one time grouping with a guy and a girl in eq1. The girl played a male character and the guy played a girl character. They was actually dating (or married not sure which).

In any case nah this isn't a big problem. And yea I have a female toon and she dresses kinky (well at least will when lvl 20 rolls around).

Yeah...really you shouldnt be restricted to what race/gender you can play :P I dont like games that restrict genders to classes. There is why i dont like most korean games, due to the fact that if i wanna be a archer ive gotta be a female...lol so this is just proof that people shouldnt be restricted to gender in games :P

I just had to reply to this post. I am a male and my main is a female named Nakasoto. This is an inside joke in my houshold. There are seven of us and I am the only male. That is right my 5 kids are all girls. When I first stated playing EQII, I could not figure what I wanted to with gender or a name. My wife offered the name Nakasoto. It means inside/outside in Japanese. So to be in I had to be female. :-)

As a female I've always played one, but ot because of gender, but because they just look so much better than their male counter parts. Hubby has males, but he does have a few female characters as well, based on the same opinion. IN EQ2, for example, a lot of the Gis for bralwers just look awful on the males, but fantastic on females. He whines constantly that my gear looks better on my monk than on his bruiser.
We've now got two Aresi femme alts that tag along with our mains, Null and Voyde. The male fae just look really odd, but the femals again, look awesome.

Glad I dont play a game that decides what you can and can not be in a fantasy game.

Nope im not kidding...thats really what i had to do to play an archer/ranger in one of the korean games i tried...thats why i dont like restrictions on MMOs for gender/race selection. Once again there was another game i played that Elves were female only while a couple others had male only or both genders...sad that elves dont reproduce with males elves huh...:P

and whoever mentioned their name came from a japanese word i just recently made an alt named Anikii...which means Big Brother in japanese (next to onii-san ect) heh well thats off topic so...

In EQ1 I heard that all the time - "You're a chick, people give you stuff ALL the time." It just wasn't true, at least not to the extent I was hearing.

Yeah i know on EQ1 a friend of mine kept getting free stuff because she was a female...it gave me a laugh but it is still sad that people give females free stuff just for being females...of course i know by now that it can be for other reasons too...lol

Heh yeah...i couldnt believe how crazy that was on EQ1...thats why i avoided making females...i really dont like getting free stuff just because my character is a female!

Sadly troll females do count as female...and nah fae can be played by anyone...but they must have the last name Baka...true story!