was more of an issue on live...where folks took EQ "seriously". people have so many alts here and are so pixel oriented (as compared to game oriented) here compared to live that all social interactions have been watered down compared to their live counter-parts.
i agree that female toons sometimes get treated better than male ones...especially if folks believe they are actually played by females irl. its just a different social element of playing any RPG with women. It was the same in pnp games if you ever actually played with a woman in your grp. preferential treatment and kinder softer responses, as happens irl. this is one of the indications, imo, that EQ is immersive enough to actually resonate gender biases from RL into the game.
on another lvl, i also think having women in a overwhelmingly male game community adds something very dynamic to the experience. i get the sense that there were more women playing on live then there are playing here. no evidence for this assertion, but it feels that way to me.
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