It’s because I like the look of my character as a female.
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I’m female in RL and can only play female characters. I’ve tried to play a male, but found I couldn’t.
I think it’s because during a lot of my Gaming life I’ve had no options; I often had to play a male, so now I have a choice, I happily pick my own gender.
Handsome me in Doom…
Gorgeous me in Quake…
How I always wished my Avatar to be…
(Brian Froud’s World of Faeries.)
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Its good that we have more options. I mean, I pulled out Dragon Age Inquisition (again) and I’m playing a female human mage. I also plan to do a male Qunari Warrior.
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I just always have, since it became a choice. This is because, for a very long time, it was NOT a choice.
I remember that Ultima 7, the Black Gate, was one of the first mainstream games where you could also pick a female character as “The Avatar.” It was something that I did not expect so much, that I missed it until my second playthrough. 7.5 also let you do that, even having it commented on in the story (since the Avatar gets “busy” with another lady, no matter which sex you pick 
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I don’t remember if Lara Croft, of Tombraider, was before or after that. It was a pretty big deal, though.
So I guess, as a 52 year old male, just call me a feminist? I could say the regular stuff like “I’d rather look at a female character, all day, hubba hubba!”, but in truth I guess I was just being a bit progressive? It just seemed like the “right thing” to do, as soon as it could be done.
In fact, in Ultima 7.5 “The Serpent Isle”, I remember that I played as an African American Female. So I was basically a “diversity hire”, before I’d even heard of the term.
When we started playing UO, EQ and later Wow in my guild, I actually got the other guys to often do the same thing. They’d ask, “why is your character female?”
“They are nice to look at, plus otherwise underrepresented in a genre most often played by dudes”, I replied.
“… KK I make one too!”
Statistically, in games like UO/EQ/Wow, if we had NOT done that you would have seen 80-90 percent male characters (if we all only played our real life sex.) Instead, because of us “cross” players(made that up!), it ended up being about 50/50. Isn’t the world more colorful, more representative, with it being about 50/50?
At least one female player, above, posted about how they had no choice but to play male in some games (Quake, etc.) I’d like to say I was doing it for them, but really it was just something different.
Ah, Ultima 7. I remember seeing the choices and I was “nice.”
I was glad to be able to ditch the blond hair blue eyed stereotype!
Of course I also remember it for the fact it showed how effective voice could be. I heard voice in the intro and I was “ok, this is normal”. Then I’m leaving the first city and I hear “That is the proper direction to travel, Avatar”
I kid you not, I must have jumped five feet out of my seat!
Because at the time, in game voice was unheard of (pun not intended). His taunts throughout the game really helped drive home just how powerful the Guardian was.
Sadly the series was ruined with Ultima 9 and a team who had no bloody clue how to make a good RPG.
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YES.
I remember how I about wet myself, that voice out of nowhere made me jump out of my seat.
Really those were such GOOD games; They were demonized a bit for the “Voodoo” memory manager thing, but on my venerable Packard bell SX 25, overclocked to a whopping 33 mhz, with 4 meg (YES MEG) of ram, I managed to find an UMB driver in newsgroups to load everything HIGH. So I played them pretty well on that computer, in addition to being able to load “ye olde” PCXdump and take screenshots.
Yeah, I can’t even remember Ultima 8. I remember having it, but that it seemed kind of bad.
The fun party system, especially in 7.5 where I had Boyden (frankenstien dude) and Petra (metal person you could raise with raise automaton) in my group really made it fun.
Kinda creepy the amount of people here that sexualize their wow character…
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Simple. I wanted some of my alts to be female. No special reason besides just “That’s what I wanted, so that’s what I did” shrugs
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For me it really has nothing to do with attraction. I don’t feel any sort if attraction to any of my female characters. I don’t feel any real connection to any of my characters male or female beyond familiarity. To me they are just tools to play the game with. So I generally pick the tool that is most pleasant to look at, or looks cool or most interesting.
You seem to have a deeper connection to your characters and therefore need some sort of deeper meaning to them. Some people see their characters as an in game representation of themselves and can’t make characters that are in any way different than how they see themselves. The OP obviously uses his characters as replacements for some sort of intimacy.
It’s all in how you see the character.
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I have a few, and it is primarily for variety’s sake since I already have a male of that particular race.
My Alliance DK is a female gnome primarily because I thought it would be funny and ironic to have a cute squeaky edge-lord.
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Going with they feel they were always a female toon when made besides night elf female rules when they dance. Make gold while dancing naked on the mail box as night elf female; number one answer.
Half my toons are male, half are female.
I like to diversify the types of buttocks I’m looking at.
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I’m the same way,I cant play male characters. I cant play ugly races either. Ill only play draenei and elves. I have issues.
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Oops and tauren too. My horde druid and shaman are one. I almost forgot about them. Please forgive me my cow peoples.
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TO ALL MALE PLAYERS, WHAT IS YOUR REASON TO PICK A FEMALE CHARACTER?
To make more gold and to get carried through more raids.
I kind of have the same, but mogs can fix it. sometimes. I can’t play ugly, or something with clothes that just dont fit. Like mage trolls in shiny elf-like robes.
For gender, I pick what’s the best fit for the role I play.
And I always find this discussion silly. Men! you can choose what you want! stare at that cute elf tush! WHY would you wanna look at that male tush all day long, anyway?
Am groot hear me groot
Well I know a girl who plays a male character. When I found out I was all like “What? OMG WHAT”? Cuz the whole time I thought it was a guy. She played really good and talked like a guy, her toon was a male warrior who was bald on top with a beard. Found out on voice chat. This was about 4 years ago. She quit playing WoW because her server died and she didn’t fancy moving to Illidan with me cuz that was back when trade chat was all like ??? ???
I play both male and female toons.
I like to try and create actual characters for my toons, even if I don’t do much RP.
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You can play this game for hours on end. Personally, there are times I’d much rather spend those hours looking at an attractive female toon fighting mobs than a big ugly male. Besides…night elf females look wicked cool using two handed swords 
But I will say this…if I’m asked if I’m “really a girl” (and in 15 years the question has been posed a few times) I’m very upfront about the fact that I’m not. I feel that this is an important distinction.
But I’ve also made some observations. I’ve noticed that when I’m playing a female other players tend to be a little nicer to me. lol. I’ve also been told by women that they play male characters to avoid being harassed.
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