How do I view my character? Every time I log into WoW and look at my character, I regret not quitting at the end of Wrath. However, the more and more I get on leading up to TWW, I feel no joy at all. So maybe this expansion I will finally put the nail in the coffin, move on, and play something for fun.
A bit of both, but more of this.
My characters are -me- but only when I’m playing WoW. And I guess any other game where I create the characters and make them my own.
And I very much acknowledge it’s a game, and very not-real.
It’s basically playing pretend, or virtual LARPing.
Immersion, to me, is feeling like you’re a part of the game world.
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Game, pixels. 
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You might hate me for answering this but for me, I get somewhat attached, usually because of the story line but it doesn’t really last.
I like all my toons but there’s this thought I keep having that makes me wonder, what if we couldn’t see the graphics?
Or there were no graphics yet we could still “play” the game.
How would it show up?
Would we just be moving numbers and code around on a screen? Slowly chewing away at it as we imagine we’re whacking a blob or something with a stick?
When I start having these thoughts I usually just stop playing for a bit.
The later. Not on an Rp server though.
i always said i’d play a black and white stick figures mmo as long as the combat/everything is always pristinely smooth at all times no matter what.
i have weird priorities.
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I dont care about the story or rp anymore… but I do care about the race I choose, it needs to fit the class theme and have a decent background for me, so I guess I’m this one just not too radical about it, race I find the coolest > racials
Well said. Ty for that. I agree with this.
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I know it’s a game but I often think up backstories for my character and live them while I play …
and lately since we have war bands I think about how my characters are related to each other.
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My Priest is the main character and all my alts are basically alternate reality versions of my main.
The Warband campfire is basically Into the Spider-Verse.
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What do you mean “I am my character”? I’m a gnome. What else should I be? looks confused
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There are some roleplaying games that are close to the second statement.
World of Warcraft is NOT one of those games. You don’t really have a lot of agency to roleplay how your character would act.
I feel like I’m just playing a character, not really “me”. It’s a fantasy.
All of my characters are Saberon no matter what they look like on the outside. Some are undead though.
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My character’s name means “Lust” (the deadly sin) in latin.
That’s how I view my character lol
Mate that IS roleplaying tho
Edit: ick that sounds aggressive. I’m trying to be genuinely nice with that
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My toons are just game pieces … I don’t think of them as me.
That.
Sometimes you just work on a character for so long they just set up residence in your brain.
Its like how Astarion’s actor kinda had his laugh mix with his own after working on him for so long.
And no yall I don’t mean this like I’m hearing voices that are not my own or having separate personalities. At the end of the day its basically you talking to yourself.
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If you would’ve asked me this years ago, around 2004 ish or so, it would’ve been the latter. I haven’t felt ANY real connections to any of my toons in years, whether they be knew or old it matters not but it probably has something to do with just how crap we’re treated as “characters” in the game.
Very much the former. I’ve never had any real attachment to my characters. The only one I kinda half-did is the one I used to roleplay on. Maybe if I did that more and on more characters I’d feel differently.