Poll: Pretending To Be Female

[Vykrel]

never, i always play as what i am in real life.

there definitely is incentive to playing as a female, though. especially in MMO's. my brother once played a secondary female character in Tibia, and convinced a guy to let her(him) use his house and to give him free items and cash etc.

 

[OdyCay]

every chance i get in a game i go female... for the better veiw of course, i mean why would i want to see a guy in a game when i called see a girl

 

[Keepitclean]

Yes it works. I played Runescape when I was 12 and did this all the time. After the game got boring for my friends and I we'd do stuff like this because we thought it was funny. It was.

 

[Zyntoxic]

I am a girl, and while I also had my unwanted share of harassment and flirting, even the occasional proposal... but I've also been handed alot of free stuff and favours, even though I didn't ask for them mind you!
since I don't like being given stuff it has been one of several reasons why I'd not say I'm a girl in a game, free stuff makes me feel awkward and in debt...

the worst kind though is girls who actually use their gender as a kind of leverage, for example, once I was in a guild in WoW and we had this shadow priest who was a girl IRL, and one hell of an attention whore at that, she gave naked pics to the Guild master to get loot priority during raids...

EDIT: oh I was just reminded of a situation where a friend of mine has kinda felt like her gender being much, much more of a con than a pro.
she was in a Guild and they had the policy of "no women allowed" because accoarding to them women in games cause drama, so when she had to go onto ventrilo she had to fake her voice in order to be allowed to stay in the guild until one day she tired of it and she confessed and got insta kicked...

 

[Griffolion]

No. I have Aspergers Syndrome (clinically diagnosed, and god do I hate the idiots who make it necessary to say that)

May I ask why that irks you so much?

 

[Ajna]

Where's that one comic strip?

The one that says "if I'm going to be staring at the same ass all day, I'd rather it be a hot ass".

Because that's why I play as chicks in video games. I don't like men, I like women. If a game is third person, I'm going to be playing as a woman.

 

[Thedutchjelle]

In Starcraft II, you can set a portrait/avatar for yourself. Most people choose the portraits they unlock after an X amount of wins, but my friends and I used one of the few female portraits (Kate Lockwell, a reporter).

We never mentioned we were girls ourselves (we're not, chosing Lockwell was just a in-joke), but it happend one or two times that the opponents thought we were female because of the picture we chose for ourselves. It only makes it easier for us if they spend more time (Trash)talking and less time gaming.

 

[CommanderKirov]

Any sad sack who falls for "ZOMG BOOBZ IRL" gets what he deserves in this case.

But honestly? It's just an advanced way of begging. And that's sad as well.

 

[Adrian Neyland]

Just now, on that poll

 

[Whateveralot]

I wouldn't, but a lot of guys thought I was a girl because I played as a female character. They never asked if I were a girl or not, but they were hitting on me regardless. It was rather funny. It got me a lot of free stuff as well.

 

[Jessabi]

I am a girl, but have never used my female status to try and manipulate male gamers into giving me stuff. Occasionally I'll get a kind stranger sending me an ingame item, or giving me some gold, sometimes without ever speaking to them but it happens veeery rarely. Apart from that, the only thing I've gotten is unwanted flirting and propositions of sex. Yes, a guy on WoW actually offered me gold if I would have cyber sex with him. I found it disturbingly hilarious, /laughed repeatedly and gave a very firm 'NO' in response. His reply was to try to heighten the price. After getting a laugh from his attempts, I eventually just blocked him and went on my way.

I've since been told by my male friends that I should have gotten the price as high as I could, took the gold and THEN blocked him, which on hindsight would have been a good plan but I was very taken aback at the time heh.

 

[Adzma]

I have done it. It's pretty funny how people just lump stuff on you if they think you're a girl.

 

[Liudeius]

I have, once.
But it wasn't for items, I was playing an MMO and needed help on a certain dungeon, so I found random guy to help me beat it. I had two characters that needed to beat the dungeon though. I didn't want to just ask the guy if he could help me beat the dungeon again on a different character, so I asked if he would help my friend too. Since my "friend" (other character) happened to be female (armor was gender based so it was female to use the armor my main could not) I avoided sounding like I was male while I was playing through the dungeon.

I did however get a ton of free armor. I wasn't even asking, people who I partied with would just throw stuff at me. I think it had something to do with the fact that armor was gender based and there was an event at the time which rewarded a ton of female armor. Since most players were male, everyone had a ton of crap that they couldn't use.

 

[kickassfrog]

No, and I wouldn't, but I'll happily laugh at others who have fallen for it. Its bad enough when a woman joins a game and every fucking guy proceeds to interrogate/insult her, let alone them actually then stooping to that level of pathetic-y-ness.

Or just start continuously talking about random crap for no damn reason when they join. Serously, this has happened damn near every time when I play Xbox Live. When a girl happens to be in a party, everyone is fucking talking. When she leaves, it's silence.

Quite an odd phenomena, actually.

As for me, I don't pretend to be a girl. Though that doesn't stop me from squealing like one when something totally awesome happens, as people from the Halo group can attest to...

See, I'm on PSN, and I only use my mic to tell people talking extremely loud in a foreign language to shut up, and to join in an argument with americans who are being dicks to everyone

 

[ParkourMcGhee]

Nah. I don't even really think about it.

I did try being a girl IRL once, but that only partially worked as I'm built like a brick sithouse and can literally sing bass.

Still it was cute just to try ^-^.

Occasionally I'll get a kind stranger sending me an ingame item, or giving me some gold

I had that in EVE online actually, and I'm pretty sure you don't really use gender there.

Some people are just nice

 

[Zeema]

I always play as a girl but if someone says ' u a Girl or Boy' i say 'Nope'

and don't really answer the question and be Really round about

 

[iRevanchist]

I'm surprised by the lack of 'yes' answers.

I think the opposite happens a lot more: Females who play males to keep the creeps away.

I'm a girl and i have never used my 'feminine charms' to get anything from games. But like Aisku said, I have pretended to be a boy so I don't get harassed.

 

[jonyboy13]

Never.
But a guy I know pretended to be a chick on an MMO and got stuff ranging from gear to consumables to money.

 

[PurePareidolia]

I haven't done so, but if I had the opportunity to get some decent stuff by lying, I probably would

 

[gellert1984]

I've never pretended to actually be female, but while I played Eve Online I played as a female character and let people make their own assumptions about what gender I am IRL.

It became a part of the game, I'd try to avoid using gender specific words when referring to myself. If asked I'd ask them what they think, then tell them I'm a guy. It was pretty amusing, most people assumed I'm female right off the bat, a few people who'd hung around the eve radio in game channel with me were shocked upon discovery that I have in fact got a penis.