The ones I've known have mostly played healer, non-combat or pet classes and have tended to be more interested than most male gamers in collecting fluff items like mounts and non-combat pets.
This.
And their chosen craft profession tends to be "For me? Really? *hug* thanks "
LOL! That is the lil boys in dresses, not the real girls.
In my 8 years of online gaming, i could not keep the count of how many proven to be girl irl players have made their living
by feeding off male´s ego and attentions.
From the "trying to hard to sound sexy ventrilo whores" to dramaqueen teens, to x guild member´s daughter.. i seen
dozens upon dozens of irl women begging and attentionwhoring for bonuses ingame.
Not to count my own ex girlfriend. <.<
And in my 15 years of gaming I am tired of hearing some guys complain about golddigging females over and over again like a broken record. Stop responding to the ego stroking and nonsense and it will stop. The problem is, some guys cant. Stop being played like suckers and perhaps some of you won't end up so bitter. This reminds me of the annoying female friend that is in a bad relationship and does nothing but complain about it whilst you both know she isn't going anywhere. Finally you just tell her to STFU cause your tired of hearing the same regurgitated bullcrap. She then goes off to find someone else that is willing to listen to her drivel.
Like someone said, alot of this type of behaviour is done by irl males anyway. In several games I have played mangina's were outted that were actively engaged in "online" relationships with male gamers and getting alot of virtual items as a result. Chat logs, myspace pages, etc. all evidenced that these were males. So please, spare us the stigma, if you 've been played take the loss and know better next time.
It is true that in the past, specially since not as much females played online games, it was mostly men pretending to be girls, that whored around for stuff and engaged in e-relationships for profit, but nowadays its completely different.
Nowadays there is as much females playing online games as there is males and there is hundreds, thousands of girls abusing guys for profit and items.
I think it´s also hilarious that you push all the responsability on the played guys and somehow excuse the ill intentions of the female players that abuse guy´s ego, insecurities or whatever they use in order to make them theirs and harvest em.
Btw, one of the reasons you hear more "reports" of the manwhores that pretend to be girls, its simply because usually when they are busted, people like to expose them and make sure they fall into shame and everyone knows what they did. When a guys gets played by a real female usually does not enjoy going to the forums and saying " a girl made me her bitch and i fell for it" cause the only thing you will get will be laughter.
By the way, i may be wrong but i have the feeling that you believe i have been played too and that i post all of this out of bitterness or something, and i guess that´s because i added my ex to the list of girlwhores, but that´s not really true, my ex started showing those signs after we broke up and she started going more heavily into the game we played.
I simply see it happen a lot around me, i happen to like to socialize ingame, usually joining the "carebear helpers" guild and that allows me to see the insides of many communities and thus i get to see a lot of this crap going on.
The ones I've known have mostly played healer, non-combat or pet classes and have tended to be more interested than most male gamers in collecting fluff items like mounts and non-combat pets.
This.
And their chosen craft profession tends to be "For me? Really? *hug* thanks "
LOL! That is the lil boys in dresses, not the real girls.
In my 8 years of online gaming, i could not keep the count of how many proven to be girl irl players have made their living
by feeding off male´s ego and attentions.
From the "trying to hard to sound sexy ventrilo whores" to dramaqueen teens, to x guild member´s daughter.. i seen
dozens upon dozens of irl women begging and attentionwhoring for bonuses ingame.
Not to count my own ex girlfriend. <.<
And in my 15 years of gaming I am tired of hearing some guys complain about golddigging females over and over again like a broken record. Stop responding to the ego stroking and nonsense and it will stop. The problem is, some guys cant. Stop being played like suckers and perhaps some of you won't end up so bitter. This reminds me of the annoying female friend that is in a bad relationship and does nothing but complain about it whilst you both know she isn't going anywhere. Finally you just tell her to STFU cause your tired of hearing the same regurgitated bullcrap. She then goes off to find someone else that is willing to listen to her drivel.
Like someone said, alot of this type of behaviour is done by irl males anyway. In several games I have played mangina's were outted that were actively engaged in "online" relationships with male gamers and getting alot of virtual items as a result. Chat logs, myspace pages, etc. all evidenced that these were males. So please, spare us the stigma, if you 've been played take the loss and know better next time.
It is true that in the past, specially since not as much females played online games, it was mostly men pretending to be girls, that whored around for stuff and engaged in e-relationships for profit, but nowadays its completely different.
Nowadays there is as much females playing online games as there is males and there is hundreds, thousands of girls abusing guys for profit and items.
I think it´s also hilarious that you push all the responsability on the played guys and somehow excuse the ill intentions of the female players that abuse guy´s ego, insecurities or whatever they use in order to make them theirs and harvest em.
Btw, one of the reasons you hear more "reports" of the manwhores that pretend to be girls, its simply because usually when they are busted, people like to expose them and make sure they fall into shame and everyone knows what they did. When a guys gets played by a real female usually does not enjoy going to the forums and saying " a girl made me her bitch and i fell for it" cause the only thing you will get will be laughter.
By the way, i may be wrong but i have the feeling that you believe i have been played too and that i post all of this out of bitterness or something, and i guess that´s because i added my ex to the list of girlwhores, but that´s not really true, my ex started showing those signs after we broke up and she started going more heavily into the game we played.
I simply see it happen a lot around me, i happen to like to socialize ingame, usually joining the "carebear helpers" guild and that allows me to see the insides of many communities and thus i get to see a lot of this crap going on.
I dont know what the ratio of men playing women to women playing women is, but I do know that there are alot of men that play female characters, there have been many convos here on these boards and others that attest to this. So Im not sure if either of us can state that for a fact manginas or real women are engaging in EWhore behaviours. and whos doing it more.
Im not dismissing bad behaviours on the part of the perpetrators either. I woman that uses guys for money/items, like a guy that uses women for sex (and yes nowadays money too!), are both scum and I didnt mean to excuse such behaviours. My statement wasn't about them, but those on the receiving end, in other words wise up, and get over it. These people are only getting over because we are being dumb. We had one of those type of females join our guild just a few weeks ago. I cant swear she was an EWhore but she certainly showed signs of it. You should have heard her over vent, giggling, trying to sound sexy, saying things "OMG Im getting raped!" and asking some of the guys to help her run heroics. She was gone in two weeks. WHY? Because the guys saw her for what it was and didnt bother. Shes off to greener pastures.
As far as being "outted" sorry I have seen equal treatment. Because of the sexist culture on many gaming forums and flame sites, busting a bad evil female EWhore is perfectly acceptable and garners alot of back-slapping and sympathy. In fact I have even seen it go further than outting a EWhore. If a guys and girl are in a relationship and the girl breaks up with him (and she not whoring at all) some males have been running to the internet and posting pictures that the girls gave them. In fact the problem is becoming so big that there are lawsuits stemming from it because some of the girls are underage and the pictures are not decent. In my former game the flame site had a section dedicated to this kind of activity. This practice of posting nude pictures of exgirlfriends "as revenge" is becoming almost cultish. There are whole websites dedicated to this activity. So please. Women are getting busted just as manginas are and in some cases the female did nothing wrong (but was stupid enough to give some creep her picture). Yet another "difference " between women and men destroyed: Men can be just as vindictive and petty as we can be.
I think people are getting the wrong end of my posts so to speak. What I am saying is it does not matter what we think the score is on gender preferences in gaming. The MMO companies think there are differences, they are doing surveys and so on, so what we think the truth is may matter to us but not to them.
Like any other market research a company does on its consumer base they don’t put it out as an open source for all to see. That information is commercially sensitive. We can be quantified by our groups, if you don’t believe that, that’s up to you. But adverts and for that matter anything that uses consumer trends would not work if our groups did not have trends that could be identified.
As to specific issues like do guys like player versus player more, work by Professor Allan Reiss has shown that men show more brain activity compaired to women when they conquer online territory, which indicates a greater drive to do just that.
This is just one study, I would not base my opinion of an issue on one study, so I would not take this to be proof positive. But neither do I hold the opinion that the only things that market reserchers, scientists and just anyone on the street can say about my gender are those I agree with.
What is it with these posts about what games girls plays and what appeals to them. Why is it so interesting what a gender plays?
Should we have posts to discuss what caucasians like? Asians? Homosexuals?
Really dont see the point of these kind of posts.
Did you even bother to read the OP's post. Probably not. Female gamers is not a small portion of the gaming sphere buddy. That's why, but then again, you aren't really looking for an answer are you?
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It is true that in the past, specially since not as much females played online games, it was mostly men pretending to be girls, that whored around for stuff and engaged in e-relationships for profit, but nowadays its completely different.
Nowadays there is as much females playing online games as there is males and there is hundreds, thousands of girls abusing guys for profit and items.
I think it´s also hilarious that you push all the responsability on the played guys and somehow excuse the ill intentions of the female players that abuse guy´s ego, insecurities or whatever they use in order to make them theirs and harvest em.
Btw, one of the reasons you hear more "reports" of the manwhores that pretend to be girls, its simply because usually when they are busted, people like to expose them and make sure they fall into shame and everyone knows what they did. When a guys gets played by a real female usually does not enjoy going to the forums and saying " a girl made me her bitch and i fell for it" cause the only thing you will get will be laughter.
By the way, i may be wrong but i have the feeling that you believe i have been played too and that i post all of this out of bitterness or something, and i guess that´s because i added my ex to the list of girlwhores, but that´s not really true, my ex started showing those signs after we broke up and she started going more heavily into the game we played.
I simply see it happen a lot around me, i happen to like to socialize ingame, usually joining the "carebear helpers" guild and that allows me to see the insides of many communities and thus i get to see a lot of this crap going on.
Rawr.
I dont know what the ratio of men playing women to women playing women is, but I do know that there are alot of men that play female characters, there have been many convos here on these boards and others that attest to this. So Im not sure if either of us can state that for a fact manginas or real women are engaging in EWhore behaviours. and whos doing it more.
Im not dismissing bad behaviours on the part of the perpetrators either. I woman that uses guys for money/items, like a guy that uses women for sex (and yes nowadays money too!), are both scum and I didnt mean to excuse such behaviours. My statement wasn't about them, but those on the receiving end, in other words wise up, and get over it. These people are only getting over because we are being dumb. We had one of those type of females join our guild just a few weeks ago. I cant swear she was an EWhore but she certainly showed signs of it. You should have heard her over vent, giggling, trying to sound sexy, saying things "OMG Im getting raped!" and asking some of the guys to help her run heroics. She was gone in two weeks. WHY? Because the guys saw her for what it was and didnt bother. Shes off to greener pastures.
As far as being "outted" sorry I have seen equal treatment. Because of the sexist culture on many gaming forums and flame sites, busting a bad evil female EWhore is perfectly acceptable and garners alot of back-slapping and sympathy. In fact I have even seen it go further than outting a EWhore. If a guys and girl are in a relationship and the girl breaks up with him (and she not whoring at all) some males have been running to the internet and posting pictures that the girls gave them. In fact the problem is becoming so big that there are lawsuits stemming from it because some of the girls are underage and the pictures are not decent. In my former game the flame site had a section dedicated to this kind of activity. This practice of posting nude pictures of exgirlfriends "as revenge" is becoming almost cultish. There are whole websites dedicated to this activity. So please. Women are getting busted just as manginas are and in some cases the female did nothing wrong (but was stupid enough to give some creep her picture). Yet another "difference " between women and men destroyed: Men can be just as vindictive and petty as we can be.
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I think people are getting the wrong end of my posts so to speak. What I am saying is it does not matter what we think the score is on gender preferences in gaming. The MMO companies think there are differences, they are doing surveys and so on, so what we think the truth is may matter to us but not to them.
Like any other market research a company does on its consumer base they don’t put it out as an open source for all to see. That information is commercially sensitive. We can be quantified by our groups, if you don’t believe that, that’s up to you. But adverts and for that matter anything that uses consumer trends would not work if our groups did not have trends that could be identified.
As to specific issues like do guys like player versus player more, work by Professor Allan Reiss has shown that men show more brain activity compaired to women when they conquer online territory, which indicates a greater drive to do just that.
This is just one study, I would not base my opinion of an issue on one study, so I would not take this to be proof positive. But neither do I hold the opinion that the only things that market reserchers, scientists and just anyone on the street can say about my gender are those I agree with.
Side quests and mini games seem to be important, as well as a good story line.
What is it with these posts about what games girls plays and what appeals to them. Why is it so interesting what a gender plays?
Should we have posts to discuss what caucasians like? Asians? Homosexuals?
Really dont see the point of these kind of posts.
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Did you even bother to read the OP's post. Probably not. Female gamers is not a small portion of the gaming sphere buddy. That's why, but then again, you aren't really looking for an answer are you?
parrotpholk-Because we all know the miracle patch fairy shows up the night before release and sprinkles magic dust on the server to make it allllll better.