I think it's safe to assume that there are some women who enjoy getting dressed up for these things.
There are women who are hired to wear costumes, such as the women at the Age of Conan booth at Gen Con a few years ago.
But there are also women who do cos play for the enjoyment of it. And men as well.
I actually remember seeing quite a few lovely women, dressed up, all on the arms of guys, dressed up, who looked like they needed to cut back on the pizza.
But that's just one recollection.
i ll stick with this but i think u guys are a bit naive too.
I usually love watching cosplay vids from comiccon and such, but the ratio of hot chick to bridge troll is far better over there. This just speaks very poorly for the wow fanbase, because I deduce that you now have to pay models to sneak into a crowd of them in order to bring up their hotness quotient by proxy.
They eyecandy improves when the costume contest winners come up.
Tralak, dude you must not get out much because I've encountered plenty of good looking women that play video games either console or pc. It seems you simply choose to base your opinion off of your limited encounters and basically stereotype people who play video games as a short, overweight kids with bad acne. I'm not trying to bash you, but dude it's kinda hard when you say something stupid like that. Haven't you ever heard the saying, "You can't judge a book by its cover."?
Maybe it's cause you're young or not a social person, but just because someone looks like a particular stereotype doesn't mean they are and I have several friends to prove that. My friend Lou looks like one of the dudes on that show Jersey Shore, but the guy is an encyclopedia of Star Wars knowledge, he's read every book written about the series. My friend's sister is a hot hair dresser and kind of a girly girl, but she is hardcore into shooter games and dedicates her time off to skrim with her clan in ranked clan matches. I mean just because you have never encountered a good looking gamer doesn't nessecarily mean they don't exist, it just means you aren't looking or you just don't care to that's all I'm sayin.
lol.. pretty obvious looking at these posts that next to nobody on these forums have ever attended a convention before. you should see the after hours parties at dragon*con. Then again, you have to be 21 and up for most of those so I guess a lot of you have to use your imaginations
That was my thought too lol. Maybe im just getting old but some of them looked pretty yourng.
Nahhhh, get with the times man. Think of all the soccer moms that were being quite vocal about their arousal with respect to a 17 year old Taylor Lautner (Twilight movies). Yucky stuff I tell ya, but it's out there.
"Mr. Rothstein, your people never will understand... the way it works out here. You're all just our guests. But you act like you're at home. Let me tell you something, partner. You ain't home. But that's where we're gonna send you if it harelips the governor." - Pat Webb
The world is a strange place if u think about it....
Few years bk u saw all sort of persons dressing up for Startrek conventions and they normally did not revive nice words from the masses for doing so....but now it seems to be all right to dress up like game characters.......
I just cant get the hang of stuff like that leave the game where it belongs in the game and at least try to get a real live outside of games....sure some of them were nice to look at not denying that but still
Maybe i am alone with my opinion maybe i just cant go with the time i dunno but if i see a person who is not payed for dressing up like that running around in there game costumes my first thought is poor thing she/he should get help
This from someone who's still playing FFXIV.
lol people who play WoW don't get to throw stones about MMO's. Sorry.
"lol people who play WoW don't get to throw stones about MMO's. Sorry."
Why? At least WoW works. It's the most popular MMO to date, based on the sheer number of people who disagree with your sentiments by giving blizzard their money each month. But, hey' its fashionable to hate success :-)
As for the Girls, I do agree there is a bit of a double-standard, but then these girls are barely wearing clothes and pointed ears, while the star trek crowd requires a bodysuit and pointed ears. Sex sells /shrug unless you ask a feminazi but they are usually butt ugly, so consider the source :-)
at 2:41 in the video, the Blonde Blood-elf on the far left is beautiful. Her eyes are just absurdly blue! and her costume is one of the best imho. she might be a booth babe, but so what!
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"lol people who play WoW don't get to throw stones about MMO's. Sorry."
Why? At least WoW works. It's the most popular MMO to date, based on the sheer number of people who disagree with your sentiments by giving blizzard their money each month. But, hey' its fashionable to hate success :-)
That's right kids, just because something is popular that makes it good ......
I think what he's saying is, WoW works, therefore it is popular. Not the other way around. WoW isn't everyone's cup of tea, but to deny its quality just because it's "popular" is delusional.
To assign quality just because of popularity is equally delusional.
Has this devolved into a WoW-hate thread like every other thread on these forums yet? The Alexstraza costume was pretty aweomse.
If it hasnt it will. Popularity breeds contempt and compile that with the next two games that were some competition (very little but some) going F2P it pretty much has the haters in a froth. If you hate WOW there aint a hell of a lot left to play.
WOW isnt great because it has 12 million players. WOW has 12 million players because its great.
I salute some of the creativeness that went into making the costumes. The orc girls with the very realistic green tint was great. Cosplay for instance is huge in Japan. They book whole coaches and attend the anime conventions all dressed up. I admire these people able to just enjoy another aspect of a hobby.
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i ll stick with this but i think u guys are a bit naive too.
They eyecandy improves when the costume contest winners come up.
They sure look old for 12 year olds
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Tralak, dude you must not get out much because I've encountered plenty of good looking women that play video games either console or pc. It seems you simply choose to base your opinion off of your limited encounters and basically stereotype people who play video games as a short, overweight kids with bad acne. I'm not trying to bash you, but dude it's kinda hard when you say something stupid like that. Haven't you ever heard the saying, "You can't judge a book by its cover."?
Maybe it's cause you're young or not a social person, but just because someone looks like a particular stereotype doesn't mean they are and I have several friends to prove that. My friend Lou looks like one of the dudes on that show Jersey Shore, but the guy is an encyclopedia of Star Wars knowledge, he's read every book written about the series. My friend's sister is a hot hair dresser and kind of a girly girl, but she is hardcore into shooter games and dedicates her time off to skrim with her clan in ranked clan matches. I mean just because you have never encountered a good looking gamer doesn't nessecarily mean they don't exist, it just means you aren't looking or you just don't care to that's all I'm sayin.
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the dude's probably in high school still, or he never left
That was my thought too lol. Maybe im just getting old but some of them looked pretty yourng.
WOW isnt great because it has 12 million players. WOW has 12 million players because its great.
lol.. pretty obvious looking at these posts that next to nobody on these forums have ever attended a convention before. you should see the after hours parties at dragon*con. Then again, you have to be 21 and up for most of those so I guess a lot of you have to use your imaginations
Nahhhh, get with the times man. Think of all the soccer moms that were being quite vocal about their arousal with respect to a 17 year old Taylor Lautner (Twilight movies). Yucky stuff I tell ya, but it's out there.
"Mr. Rothstein, your people never will understand... the way it works out here. You're all just our guests. But you act like you're at home. Let me tell you something, partner. You ain't home. But that's where we're gonna send you if it harelips the governor." - Pat Webb
These may be the only forums in the world where geek gamers could find fault with girls dressed up in fantasy costumes.
You people complain about this and all I can envision is comic book guy saying "Worst Bliz-Con ever".
lol people who play WoW don't get to throw stones about MMO's. Sorry.
"lol people who play WoW don't get to throw stones about MMO's. Sorry."
Why? At least WoW works. It's the most popular MMO to date, based on the sheer number of people who disagree with your sentiments by giving blizzard their money each month. But, hey' its fashionable to hate success :-)
As for the Girls, I do agree there is a bit of a double-standard, but then these girls are barely wearing clothes and pointed ears, while the star trek crowd requires a bodysuit and pointed ears. Sex sells /shrug unless you ask a feminazi but they are usually butt ugly, so consider the source :-)
at 2:41 in the video, the Blonde Blood-elf on the far left is beautiful. Her eyes are just absurdly blue! and her costume is one of the best imho. she might be a booth babe, but so what!
Frank 'Spankybus' Mignone
www.spankybus.com
-3d Artist & Compositor
-Writer
-Professional Amature
I feel sorry for 90% of those "girls".... and I feel 100% sorry for all of you drooling over that sad, sad show!
Has this devolved into a WoW-hate thread like every other thread on these forums yet? The Alexstraza costume was pretty aweomse.
The women in comic con are hotter lol...but that is because most of them are models or pornstars lol.
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To assign quality just because of popularity is equally delusional.
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If it hasnt it will. Popularity breeds contempt and compile that with the next two games that were some competition (very little but some) going F2P it pretty much has the haters in a froth. If you hate WOW there aint a hell of a lot left to play.
WOW isnt great because it has 12 million players. WOW has 12 million players because its great.
I salute some of the creativeness that went into making the costumes. The orc girls with the very realistic green tint was great. Cosplay for instance is huge in Japan. They book whole coaches and attend the anime conventions all dressed up. I admire these people able to just enjoy another aspect of a hobby.
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Sweet Jesus! @.@ Reminds me of Tia Carrera when she was younger!
Frank 'Spankybus' Mignone
www.spankybus.com
-3d Artist & Compositor
-Writer
-Professional Amature
Jeez, where else can you see some dumpy looking nerd girls but at BlizzCon?
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The girl dressed as Kerrigan is ridonkulous.