So females can look exciting as males, regardless of gender?
Gender is the crux of your argument
Agreed.
I play all male characters except for undead and goblin ones for this reason.
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Self-worth issues, mostly.
There are some ideas behind certain characters that scream āOh, this would be awesome as a guy!ā, and Iāll do it anyways. Nine times out of ten though, I just donāt feel right playing a male character in this game unless itās a specific niche idea like an homages to certain people I know or particular character archetypes.
EDIT: Also, Pandaren femaleās Sprint animation is so much more steady than the male one. I agree with a prior post that sometimes itās a matter of animation aesthetics.
I dont but if I did it would be because of better animations.
To be honest, for me itās pretty simple. If Iām going to spend hours of my time playing this game, Iām at least going to make the most satisfying thing to look at while I play.
If you want more stuff, I also like many of the female animations more. Plus I like long hair and there arenāt enough good hair options on males. Those are really the big reasons. I could enjoy looking at a male character too, of course, but for me Iād rather look at a female.
My Demon Hunter used to be a female Night Elf. Then someone creeped on me, and I decided to appearance change her to a guy. Now he looks weird and I donāt want to play him anymore.
Itās probably my fault for having that Demon Hunter be on Moonguard.
Photonic women never complain and do what theyāre toldā¦ there is your silver lining.
gender confusion
Hit the mute button. Problem solved. And maybe spend more time outside and less time memorizing whatās been talked about in the forums.
You do make a good point, maybe people should start necroing old threads instead of starting new ones. I think the community will love that, thanks for your guidance.
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I wonder if men hate when other men present as female in an mmo because it brings them closer to the ugly reflection of how some of them treat women then they rationalize it away by participating in or making a million threads of this discussion.
I donāt in WoW. But i did in Code Vein, cause anime waifu you can create is beyond anything.
I wont make female character just for the sake of being female, it should be something i could love instead of roleplay. WoW doesnāt have those type of grills.
You do know that is such a great mistery thereĀ“s people basing their psychiatry thesis on it right? IĀ“ve pondered about it a lot myself, having always picked my own gender to represent me, yet i am not at a liberty to report my findings here without getting banned.
I play a female character because it feels right.
As a teen, I did it probably because I was a horndog. I donāt really remember, but then once I stopped being weird I still kept doing it. It got to the point where it felt natural.
This has gotten to the point where it feels weird and not right if Iām playing a male character. In-game I even type āthe way a girl wouldā without realizing it, or so Iāve been told. If asked or overly flirted with, I always make sure people know Iām male, though. I dunno, Guess Iām just weird? Maybe my āonline meā is just female.
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I never used to play female characters because I thought itād be weird, now Iām at the point where if it fits thematically or I like the way the females look better, I go that way. My light forged paladin is female because I like the models way better but also, as kind of a tip to the hat to Yrel whom I like as a character quite a bit.
Depends on my mood. I have both male and female characters, both in WoW, and in tabletop RPGs as well.
Itās called roleplaying.
Thatās definitely it.
Also, seeing dwarfs in game makes me feel super guilty about how I treat small people. Also, magic casting classes show my guilt in marginalizing magicians irl.
Iāve made female characters before just to enjoy some new attack animations and voices, but thatās just me. Never mained a female toon
I donāt like the smaller female models.
I started out mostly like you, I was celibate until I was 40 basically so it was just better for my loneliness, I found, to play a female character. Itās not like Iām in love with my character or anything, good god, itās just an aesthetic choice. I have a girlfriend now and weāre getting married next year but Iām so used to rolling female Iāll continue to do it. Unless I play gnomes, I find the men comical and the women . . . weird.
It really doesnāt help that all the men ('cept Gnomes) are hyper-muscular and Iām so not that and thatās so not my fantasy. I just think almost all the men in this game look like pro wrestlers, and Iām not down with that. If I want a truly thin character Iām practically forced to go female. I have several blood elves and a void elf, a few humans, even a dwarf. Dwarf is another race where I can play the men, and I have, but I eventually turned him into a female blood elf and kept his sister for alliance. Having two dwarf paladins was redundant, I leveled the guy first, decided I liked the girl better after leveling her for the hel of it (that would never work now with AP), my friends wanted to play Horde at the time, so I switched him out.
As a guy whoās been single all his life until recently I found itās a good way to add something feminine to your life, and thereās nothing at all wrong with that. I write female characters too, and no one would say that is weird, I see the two things essentially the same way.
i only play female characters in ff14 or maybe if i make a female blood elfā¦