I'm a girl and I can def say that the beautiful graphics and detailed characters appeal to me A LOT, but I don't think that's all. My fav online game so far was Warhammer Online and imo it had horrible graphic (details) compared to ie Aion or Tera but it was just SO MUCH fun playing this game (loved the quests, loved rvr, loved bgs). I'm also a huge Eve Online fan and the graphics there are completely different from any other MMO I've played so I don't think you could say that girls are drawn to games that look "pretty", at least not all of them.
As for Tera I must admit, the female Castianic and Elin (?) races seem to attract most attention by both male and female players (more male I guess) and to me they do not appeal AT_ALL, I kinda despise them actually although the castianic armor designs are really something but the general stance of the models is horrible, fantasy game or not, designing girls in close to no armor with lifting heavy weaponery - no problem, but designing girls in close to no armor lifting heavy battleaxes but standing as if they just broke their spine AGAIN - no way. I'll play a male toon that's for sure!
My biggest gripe with Castanics females is how tiny they seem when placed next to Amani females, haha. They are just a bit higher than Elin and Elin oversized bodies make Castanics look frail.
Still, the most hilarious race to play with those huge weapons is Popori, hands down.
Lol. I never understood why guys would play as a females, I for one like to mimic / portray myself into my character online. Then a thought occured to me... "Why would I want to stare at a male butt for HRS in my MMO!" Straight guys can relate.. Seeing a female from the back is soo much more appealing...
So now I can see, why SOME guys would play as female characters, though I only do when my GF is not around.
i roll female toons a lot for a simple reason: they're not distracting. it seems to me that the nerds who designed them spent so much time making them fluid and smooth in their animations that you can easily tune them out. the male characters often have jagged animations and walk funny.
Lol. I never understood why guys would play as a females, I for one like to mimic / portray myself into my character online. Then a thought occured to me... "Why would I want to stare at a male butt for HRS in my MMO!" Straight guys can relate.. Seeing a female from the back is soo much more appealing...
So now I can see, why SOME guys would play as female characters, though I only do when my GF is not around.
i roll female toons a lot for a simple reason: they're not distracting. it seems to me that the nerds who designed them spent so much time making them fluid and smooth in their animations that you can easily tune them out. the male characters often have jagged animations and walk funny.
When I was younger I used to play male avatars exclusively. Back then I was considering the avatars a virtual representation of myself in the world. These days I play female avatars exclusively. They are characters that I care in a virtual world, it's easier for me to feel empathic to a female avatar than a male one.
That´s funny, I thought the fact that it is impossible to find a female armor where you can´t see the panties under would turn off female gamers.
I guess that just shows that i don´t really know what female gamers want.
my wife's a huge anime freak as well as an mmo gamer. i think a lot of politically correct screamers would be surprised to find that not all girls like ankle-length robed characters with static boobs.
edit: any more than i do
lol too right, my GF loves the seksi models
Most protesters are usually guys in my experience... weird that.
i reckon so. a good example is her experience in swtor isn't satisfying because the robes are ankle-length and she's rolled a marauder, so feels she's not looking frontline enough. fashion means a lot to her. her favourite piece of gear so far has been a cape, because of the way it moved and she's still looking for a pair of pants to show off her legs. if swtor had short skirts, she'd be running around in that. i guarantee it.
having said that, she bucks the trend by never playing healers or casters. she's strictly dps and pvp-oriented. i'm very proud of her.
i roll female toons a lot for a simple reason: they're not distracting. it seems to me that the nerds who designed them spent so much time making them fluid and smooth in their animations that you can easily tune them out. the male characters often have jagged animations and walk funny.
When I was younger I used to play male avatars exclusively. Back then I was considering the avatars a virtual representation of myself in the world. These days I play female avatars exclusively. They are characters that I care in a virtual world, it's easier for me to feel empathic to a female avatar than a male one.
I hope I didn't come across as a perv or some crazed n00b, who gets a rise out of virtual female designs.. It's really just a matter of preference and what makes a person enjoy / play / care and as the above statement said "feel empathic," torwards your own personalized character.
Thats just another thing I really like about MMOs, the story behind them allows for a unique experience and customization in the roles (as a player) for anyone, who may choose to do so.
i roll female toons a lot for a simple reason: they're not distracting. it seems to me that the nerds who designed them spent so much time making them fluid and smooth in their animations that you can easily tune them out. the male characters often have jagged animations and walk funny.
When I was younger I used to play male avatars exclusively. Back then I was considering the avatars a virtual representation of myself in the world. These days I play female avatars exclusively. They are characters that I care in a virtual world, it's easier for me to feel empathic to a female avatar than a male one.
I hope I didn't come across as perv or some crazed n00b, who gets a rise out of virtual female designs.. It's really just a matter of preference and what makes a person enjoy / play / care and as the above statement said "feel empathic," torwards your own personalized character.
Thats just another thing I really like about MMOs, the story behind them allows for a unique experience and customization in the roles (as a player) for anyone, who may choose to do so.
~cheers
Yes because pixels now make you are perv. people need to get over themselves. /sigh
Originally posted by Loke666 That´s funny, I thought the fact that it is impossible to find a female armor where you can´t see the panties under would turn off female gamers. I guess that just shows that i don´t really know what female gamers want.
Any man who said they knew anything about females, yet alone those who play mmos is a liar
That´s funny, I thought the fact that it is impossible to find a female armor where you can´t see the panties under would turn off female gamers.
I guess that just shows that i don´t really know what female gamers want.
I talked to one girl who said she enjoyed the skimpy armor and said that if her character had the body to show some skin why not show it. Lol, we may never know what girls want.
Or worse, we might. Justin Bieber seems to be one of the things many of them wants...
That´s funny, I thought the fact that it is impossible to find a female armor where you can´t see the panties under would turn off female gamers.
I guess that just shows that i don´t really know what female gamers want.
I talked to one girl who said she enjoyed the skimpy armor and said that if her character had the body to show some skin why not show it. Lol, we may never know what girls want.
Or worse, we might. Justin Bieber seems to be one of the things many of them wants...
real women don't like justin bieber.
Guys will never know what WOMEN want, it's just one of the many rules of the cosmos. We can only guess or at least get close, enough to make them happy and tolerate us..
Hhm... i somehow don't believe OP with his claim of 20 girlfriends gonne play TERA?, i smell a trick luring more boys to game becouse they think behind every female character plays a realy girl and gues what those boys get excited about hehe.
Publishing trick get more male to game.
Hope to build full AMD system RYZEN/VEGA/AM4!!!
MB:Asus V De Luxe z77 CPU:Intell Icore7 3770k GPU: AMD Fury X(waiting for BIG VEGA 10 or 11 HBM2?(bit unclear now)) MEMORY:Corsair PLAT.DDR3 1866MHZ 16GB PSU:Corsair AX1200i OS:Windows 10 64bit
Hhm... i somehow don't believe OP with his claim of 20 girlfriends gonne play TERA?, i smell a trick luring more boys to game becouse they think behind every female character plays a realy girl and gues what those boys get excited about hehe.
Publishing trick get more male to game.
Lol. This may be true...
Pictures or vent in game, or this is a scam, just-kidding... You'll never know whos behind the screen of any character, though if they say they're of female gender, I'd keep a questionable but optimistic approach...Until proven other-wise. Heh
Pictures or vent in game, or this is a scam, just-kidding... You'll never know whos behind the screen of any character, though if they say they're of female gender, I'd keep a questionable but optimistic approach...Until proven other-wise. Heh
The fact is that more and more females actually play MMOs so OP might be right.
Heck, in M59 real females were really rare.
But it is rather logical, P&P RPG actually have plenty of female gamers (particularly World of darkness) so it is not strange that they eventually mtry out MMOs as well.
Hhm... i somehow don't believe OP with his claim of 20 girlfriends gonne play TERA?, i smell a trick luring more boys to game becouse they think behind every female character plays a realy girl and gues what those boys get excited about hehe.
Publishing trick get more male to game.
we are all from the same college, aside from that. we are all members of a Sims 3 modding fansite. there are tons of girls who play the sims, believe it or not.
Hhm... i somehow don't believe OP with his claim of 20 girlfriends gonne play TERA?, i smell a trick luring more boys to game becouse they think behind every female character plays a realy girl and gues what those boys get excited about hehe.
Publishing trick get more male to game.
we are all from the same college, aside from that. we are all members of a Sims 3 modding fansite. there are tons of girls who play the sims, believe it or not.
Tons of Sims girls , Tera ,this doesnt make sense at all.
Hhm... i somehow don't believe OP with his claim of 20 girlfriends gonne play TERA?, i smell a trick luring more boys to game becouse they think behind every female character plays a realy girl and gues what those boys get excited about hehe.
Publishing trick get more male to game.
we are all from the same college, aside from that. we are all members of a Sims 3 modding fansite. there are tons of girls who play the sims, believe it or not.
Tons of Sims girls , Tera ,this doesnt make sense at all.
it doesen't need to make sense to you. it does to us
Hhm... i somehow don't believe OP with his claim of 20 girlfriends gonne play TERA?, i smell a trick luring more boys to game becouse they think behind every female character plays a realy girl and gues what those boys get excited about hehe.
Publishing trick get more male to game.
we are all from the same college, aside from that. we are all members of a Sims 3 modding fansite. there are tons of girls who play the sims, believe it or not.
Tons of Sims girls , Tera ,this doesnt make sense at all.
it doesen't need to make sense to you. it does to us
Hhm... i somehow don't believe OP with his claim of 20 girlfriends gonne play TERA?, i smell a trick luring more boys to game becouse they think behind every female character plays a realy girl and gues what those boys get excited about hehe.
Publishing trick get more male to game.
we are all from the same college, aside from that. we are all members of a Sims 3 modding fansite. there are tons of girls who play the sims, believe it or not.
Tons of Sims girls , Tera ,this doesnt make sense at all.
it doesen't need to make sense to you. it does to us
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Hey Pivotelite, I'd like the website as well if you don't mind. Thanks.
I'm a girl and I can def say that the beautiful graphics and detailed characters appeal to me A LOT, but I don't think that's all. My fav online game so far was Warhammer Online and imo it had horrible graphic (details) compared to ie Aion or Tera but it was just SO MUCH fun playing this game (loved the quests, loved rvr, loved bgs). I'm also a huge Eve Online fan and the graphics there are completely different from any other MMO I've played so I don't think you could say that girls are drawn to games that look "pretty", at least not all of them.
As for Tera I must admit, the female Castianic and Elin (?) races seem to attract most attention by both male and female players (more male I guess) and to me they do not appeal AT_ALL, I kinda despise them actually although the castianic armor designs are really something but the general stance of the models is horrible, fantasy game or not, designing girls in close to no armor with lifting heavy weaponery - no problem, but designing girls in close to no armor lifting heavy battleaxes but standing as if they just broke their spine AGAIN - no way. I'll play a male toon that's for sure!
My biggest gripe with Castanics females is how tiny they seem when placed next to Amani females, haha. They are just a bit higher than Elin and Elin oversized bodies make Castanics look frail.
Still, the most hilarious race to play with those huge weapons is Popori, hands down.
http://tera-online.cc/uploads/posts/2010-06/all_race_sample.jpg
i roll female toons a lot for a simple reason: they're not distracting. it seems to me that the nerds who designed them spent so much time making them fluid and smooth in their animations that you can easily tune them out. the male characters often have jagged animations and walk funny.
When I was younger I used to play male avatars exclusively. Back then I was considering the avatars a virtual representation of myself in the world. These days I play female avatars exclusively. They are characters that I care in a virtual world, it's easier for me to feel empathic to a female avatar than a male one.
i reckon so. a good example is her experience in swtor isn't satisfying because the robes are ankle-length and she's rolled a marauder, so feels she's not looking frontline enough. fashion means a lot to her. her favourite piece of gear so far has been a cape, because of the way it moved and she's still looking for a pair of pants to show off her legs. if swtor had short skirts, she'd be running around in that. i guarantee it.
having said that, she bucks the trend by never playing healers or casters. she's strictly dps and pvp-oriented. i'm very proud of her.
I hope I didn't come across as a perv or some crazed n00b, who gets a rise out of virtual female designs.. It's really just a matter of preference and what makes a person enjoy / play / care and as the above statement said "feel empathic," torwards your own personalized character.
Thats just another thing I really like about MMOs, the story behind them allows for a unique experience and customization in the roles (as a player) for anyone, who may choose to do so.
~cheers
Yes because pixels now make you are perv. people need to get over themselves. /sigh
why would you think that? women wear revealing clothes in real life so why would it turn them off in a game?
Any man who said they knew anything about females, yet alone those who play mmos is a liar
real women don't like justin bieber.
Guys will never know what WOMEN want, it's just one of the many rules of the cosmos. We can only guess or at least get close, enough to make them happy and tolerate us..
Hhm... i somehow don't believe OP with his claim of 20 girlfriends gonne play TERA?, i smell a trick luring more boys to game becouse they think behind every female character plays a realy girl and gues what those boys get excited about hehe.
Publishing trick get more male to game.
Hope to build full AMD system RYZEN/VEGA/AM4!!!
MB:Asus V De Luxe z77
CPU:Intell Icore7 3770k
GPU: AMD Fury X(waiting for BIG VEGA 10 or 11 HBM2?(bit unclear now))
MEMORY:Corsair PLAT.DDR3 1866MHZ 16GB
PSU:Corsair AX1200i
OS:Windows 10 64bit
Lol. This may be true...
Pictures or vent in game, or this is a scam, just-kidding... You'll never know whos behind the screen of any character, though if they say they're of female gender, I'd keep a questionable but optimistic approach...Until proven other-wise. Heh
The fact is that more and more females actually play MMOs so OP might be right.
Heck, in M59 real females were really rare.
But it is rather logical, P&P RPG actually have plenty of female gamers (particularly World of darkness) so it is not strange that they eventually mtry out MMOs as well.
They'll play because of an awesome new race called
POPORI .
Enough said.
we are all from the same college, aside from that. we are all members of a Sims 3 modding fansite. there are tons of girls who play the sims, believe it or not.
only 5 of us have played MMO before though
Tons of Sims girls , Tera ,this doesnt make sense at all.
Let's internet
it doesen't need to make sense to you. it does to us
OK
Tera online Appeal to most female players 20 from "tons of" is most female players ??
Let's internet
20 of us are girls yes. and 10 boys, includying my hubby.
we plan to make a guild at some point, this last beta only 6 of us managed to play unfortunately.
on beta 1 we all got in and had a blast!p i should probably post some vids of us all at the end of Beta 1 sometimes!p
I'm a guy and I'm totally rolling a Popori when the game comes out.
Same as me. Besides there are no female poporis.
20 real females playing a game is a start, but it's not revolutionary.
The game can crow when it's 40% plus of the playerbase.