Unfortunately, for every female gamer that represents her sex in a professional manner (plays class well, doesn't try to flirt for handouts) there are some that do play up their sex for advantages. I've played with many female gamers, flirted with some if I thought it was welcome, and just had a good time doing MMO things and talking about MMO things with others. Probably played with way more respectable female gamers than I have ewhores, but even one guild-destroying ewhore can remain in your memory for a long time.
The main one that comes to mind for me is this druid in my raid guild during Vanilla WoW. We were horde and tearing our way through molten core, going farther all the time, getting pimped out, working like a well-oiled machine that spits out items. We had a druid named Bella or Bellamoo or something who was very much flirting with the guild leader constantly. It got out of hand, he started screwing up at raids when she was there, he was never able to help out anyone in the guild because he was constantly farming stuff for her or helping her alt or just basically spending every moment with this girl. He would ignore DKP to give her loot because he thought it was "what the guild needed" to progress, and there was a lot of very vocal complaining about the whole thing. Long story short, she left guild once she had the loot she wanted, he got upset and quit game, guild disbanded and we reformed under a new tag with me as the new main tank. We lost quite a few members in the reformation and by the time I quit the game, we hadn't really regained our focus.
All that being said, if games had a playerbase that was mostly female, it would all be flipped around. Some dudes would play on their sex for advantage and others would just try to be good players. My current guild leader is a woman. Does a great job and I respect her.
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03-16-2014, 04:07 AM
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