Poll: Pretending To Be Female

[Jackalb]

I am a male however I clicked the 'No, I am female' option on your poll.

WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?!

However I have tried it once or twice just to see what the game would be like from a different perspective.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I'm a bit skeptical of if this actually works though, as I'm a girl who plays, and while I dont make a big deal out of it, the most I've gotten is generally harrassment/unwanted flirting.

Yeah I've never got a free ride and those who have helped me have been mates that I have helped back and suchlike.

I kind of think this is a bit of a myth, either that or I don't act slutty enough...or something lol.

A friend and I joke that when a man finds out he is talking to a woman online they imagine the girl to be fresh out of the shower towel-clad and with a towel in thier hair. It's some kind of law. xD

 

[Sordak]

this is why i always assume there is no such thing as a girl in the internet.

 

[Torrasque]

On WoW, when I used to play that crap, repetitive game, I had a female Belf Mage named Lights (with an alt umlaut i)
More than 1 douchefag thought that I was ACTUALLY female.
Most of the time, I would just play around until they finally figured out that I was a dude.
But there were a few times that the guy was so incredibly certain that I was a girl, that I would have no choice but to troll the fuck out of him by pretending to be a girl.
No, I would not be one of those guys that sent him pictures or anything, but the things I would say, were intentionally meant to be considered to be feminine.

Do I feel bad? Fuck no.
Do I feel less masculine? Fuck no, trolling is fun.

 

[wangtron5000]

When voice chat started getting popular in my guild we lost so many "girl" members.
I bet it's because they had weiners.

 

[Denamic]

Every female character I make in a game without voice chat, I do exactly that.

Works every. Damned. Time. No regrets. I mean, it is a video game, after all.

Heck, everyone I know on Guild Wars still think I'm the girl I pulled from a google image search onto their guild forums.. they'll never figure it out.

Congratulations, you're a transvestite.
It may be a game, but you are deceiving actual people.

 

[StBishop]

I did it when I was quite young playing runescape, got a stack of free shit because I made a female character and people were asking me to be their girlfriend IRL. I was like "Gimme x amount of gold" and they did.

I then reported them when they tried to have cyber sex with me. Was sort of hilarious.

 

[Khada]

I play mostly female chars (they usually look a lot better than the male counter-parts) and whilst I don't go out of my way to make sure people know I'm a guy, I do mention it if anyone starts flirting with me as only a fool would (but perhaps not after making them look a little stupid first xD).

 

[kebab4you]

Yes, quite a bit. Creepy people deserved to be mock, however I have never tried to get any favour or items from them... will have to see if that works also.

 

[Riobux]

Nope, and I wouldn't. Not only I'd have nothing to gain from pretending to be female, I'd likely do a bad job of it. Even if I convince the other person in question that I'm female, I'd likely get bored and see how hard I could push it.

 

[mrF00bar]

Never pretended to be a women in any game like that, I do play female characters because why the hell not? I always thought femsheps voice acting was better.

 

[ChaosBorne]

no i haven't and i wouldn't either, i don't even like playing a female character so pretending to be a girl to get stuff is out of the question.
guys who do that are pretty lame, guys who fall for it even more so.

 

[mb16]

I kind of have a habit of assuming that anyone I encounter online is male until established otherwise.

i once "argued"* with a girl on eve online for about an hour that she wasnt female. which i kept at untill she friended me on facebook


*joked

 

[Hugga_Bear]

Nope, not my thing. Have seen guys do it before (and many times seen people who I hope to hell were guys because if they're girls they have some serious self esteem issues) and found it pretty funny tbh. Anyone who seriously thinks that some completely random person on a game is not only a girl but a girl who is suddenly interested enough to send them pictures of titties in return for free shit needs to grow the fuck up.

Anyway, if guys want to do it I have no problem, if someone's fucking dumb enough to fall for it then more fool them, like I said, I find it pretty amusing.

 

[kasperbbs]

Once in a mmo, but only because i wanted free buffs, he got really chatty after that, but he didn't speak English and i'm terrible at Russian, so thankfully he ran out of stupid questions after a minute and i could get revenge on some shitty mage who kept bothering me.

 

[Raddra]

I did once nearly ten years ago in Everquest. After a few years of the ruse I stopped and haven't looked back.

And based on my 12 years online experience, about 50% of those votes for 'No and I wouldn't' are deceptive.

 

[BlueFishie]

I used to pretend I was female, though that was before I got into MMOs. I try to avoid it nowadays though, as it just makes me sad.

At least when I'm not roleplaying, at any rate.

 

[Harbinger_]

I've made female characters in games but never pretended to BE female in them.

 

[Phasmal]

I'm a bit skeptical of if this actually works though, as I'm a girl who plays, and while I dont make a big deal out of it, the most I've gotten is generally harrassment/unwanted flirting.

Yeah! I've been gaming for years, and no one ever gives me anything cool for being a female gamer. I've never been offered help or free stuff. I can't imagine why a guy would pretend to be a girl online - the most I've ever gotten is stalked. -_-;

Actually, I kind of like the flirting. That's nice. Well, until it turns into the aforementioned stalking....

But really, free stuff? Where's my free stuff? Huh? **crosses arms and waits for free girl stuff**

[sub]In all seriousness, I don't get this. Most girl gamers get little more than verbal abuse. Anyone care to enlighten me?[/sub]

From the look of things, all our free stuff is going to dudes pretending to be slutty.

 

[Burs]

Only as a Prank on one of my Minecraft buddies on our server ^.^ I got my best mate to take pictures of herself and post them on the forums under my name and we kept this going for a month.. Some of the folks on the server still arent sure though X3