Women of Norrath, what's your experience?

[India]

Originally Posted by Ajkuhuun [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Faerie, I can relate. My character was featured in a series of online EQ comics a friend of mine wrote, and was featured in a Silky Venom article regarding girl gaming. After that I logged into so many tells I actually couldn't get to them all, most of which were especially disconcerting...I actually had a guy bug me for three straight days wanting to know what shoe size I wore. I stopped logging in, and a RL friend of mine got tired of not having a tank for our groups and paid for a name change for me.

Which article? I ran the SV site with Oloh... I'd like to look it up [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[fastboy21]

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.

[khanable]

All I know is that when I teabag sitting folks on tomatoes (female dark elf) they will usually stand and dance or interact in some way

On cucumbers they just ignore me

Rough life

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[Naena]

Originally Posted by Tiggles [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Hafu is a good player but she is just one member of a team in all those wins, It's common knowledge she is carried by the other players and she just the public face and image of the team.

They could replace her with a superior player in about 15 minutes but they would lose her 1+ million plus twitch fans and the revenue they bring in.

This is why GPU companies sponsor "frag dolls" and other all female teams, they are not better then male teams but people like watching girls play video games.

http://www.sk-gaming.com/content/178...e_bending_over

Hafu was removed from her previous team for poor performance and was picked up by a competitive team only as a "fuck you" to the original team when they beat them in the finals.

You don't get first place in MLG/3rd at Blizzcon from being carried, sure there might have been some players who could have done it better, but to say she was carried is going a bit far. You aren't going to pull off a win in a tourney as big as MLG or Blizzcon if someone on your team isn't one of the best at what they do.

But anyway, since the question all this came from was asking if there were any females who have played at a highly competitive level in PVP in any MMO games... There are plenty of females who have played at high level in PvP in WoW, which is without a doubt the most popular and competitive MMO ever. There are also girls that play at high level in SC2, and I'm sure pretty much every other competitive video game too.

There are plenty of guys who suck at MMOs/video games, just like there are girls that suck. However I probably know just as many girls who I trust to play their character to its full potential as guys.

[HeallunRumblebelly]

Originally Posted by Naena [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You don't get first place in MLG/3rd at Blizzcon from being carried, sure there might have been some players who could have done it better, but to say she was carried is going a bit far. You aren't going to pull off a win in a tourney as big as MLG or Blizzcon if someone on your team isn't one of the best at what they do.

But anyway, since the question all this came from was asking if there were any females who have played at a highly competitive level in PVP in any MMO games... There are plenty of females who have played at high level in PvP in WoW, which is without a doubt the most popular and competitive MMO ever. There are also girls that play at high level in SC2, and I'm sure pretty much every other competitive video game too.

There are plenty of guys who suck at MMOs/video games, just like there are girls that suck. However I probably know just as many girls who I trust to play their character to its full potential as guys.

I'm sure by percentile it's all the same, but why is my guild like 95% men :P

[Gadwen]

I just make the assumption that everyone I am playing with is a beautiful woman (male chars included), and I treat everyone like a princess.

[Bazia]

If I ever get divorced I'll probably try to find my next significant other through EQ emulator.

[Gadwen]

Originally Posted by Bazia [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If I ever get divorced I'll probably try to find my next significant other through EQ emulator.

Solid plan, just remember to send her tells every day asking what size shoe she wears.

[Ajkuhuun]

Solid plan, just remember to send her tells every day asking what size shoe she wears.

Literally not a better pick up line, you're a shoe in [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Doors]

There's more terrible male gamers than female gamers out there.

That said, I don't think there's one female in my guild on red. Better that way really, bitches cause drama over loot.