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Occulis
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 Posted: 09/11/05 - 20:44 Post subject: MMO related: Do you believe...
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in life after love? Just kidding. 
Do you believe it's possible to make an ugly race (troll, orc, ogre) with "pretty enough" females that would attract actual female players?
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Pags
RealPoor Guru
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Posted: 09/11/05 - 20:49 Post subject:
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No.
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Brael
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Posted: 09/11/05 - 20:50 Post subject:
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I don't think race matters much to women for playing... I would put more on the class mattering. Look at EQ:
Ranger/Druid - Happy little forest nymph
Cleric - Wants to feel needed
Rogue - Backstabber
Enchanter - Controlling psycho
That makes up 90% of the females in EQ if not more.
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Occulis
RealPoor Jedi
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Posted: 09/11/05 - 20:52 Post subject:
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Dude! Do you know why no women play Horde on WoW? Because there are no hot horde females. There's 1 female troll setup that is passable but... eew.
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RealPoor Guru
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Posted: 09/11/05 - 20:54 Post subject:
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At least there aren't guys running around playing women chars.
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kireol
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Posted: 09/11/05 - 20:54 Post subject:
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Rennol
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Posted: 09/11/05 - 21:18 Post subject:
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| Brael wrote: | I don't think race matters much to women for playing... I would put more on the class mattering. Look at EQ:
Ranger/Druid - Happy little forest nymph
Cleric - Wants to feel needed
Rogue - Backstabber
Enchanter - Controlling psycho
That makes up 90% of the females in EQ if not more. |
You know, I gotta say that sometimes I think you post retarded things. We all do.
This post, however, is dead on... good job  You should be like a MMO psychologist or something!
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Rennol
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Posted: 09/11/05 - 21:19 Post subject:
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| Occulis wrote: | | Dude! Do you know why no women play Horde on WoW? Because there are no hot horde females. There's 1 female troll setup that is passable but... eew. |
I beat off to female tauren :/
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Maldek
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Posted: 09/11/05 - 21:20 Post subject:
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| Rennol wrote: | | Brael wrote: | I don't think race matters much to women for playing... I would put more on the class mattering. Look at EQ:
Ranger/Druid - Happy little forest nymph
Cleric - Wants to feel needed
Rogue - Backstabber
Enchanter - Controlling psycho
That makes up 90% of the females in EQ if not more. |
You know, I gotta say that sometimes I think you post retarded things. We all do.
This post, however, is dead on... good job :P You should be like a MMO psychologist or something! |
I must concur, excellent work Sir Brael Uselesshybridposter !!##%
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Occulis
RealPoor Jedi
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Posted: 09/11/05 - 21:25 Post subject:
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The class, I dunno. In EQ, women didn't play trolls and ogres even though those made great SK's, tanks, shamen. Instead they played the pretty (elf, human, huge black tits-Luclin Erudite) or the cute, for instance halfling/gnome.
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kireol
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Posted: 09/11/05 - 21:26 Post subject:
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some played DEs. but they were pretty hot.
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Maldek
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Posted: 09/11/05 - 21:27 Post subject:
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so many DE chicks were guys
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Pags
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Posted: 09/11/05 - 21:28 Post subject:
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| kireol wrote: | | some played DEs. but they were pretty hot. |
There was tons of DEs, or maybe they just overused that DE mask..
lol brael, /agree
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Pags
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Posted: 09/11/05 - 21:28 Post subject:
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| Maldek wrote: | | so many chicks were guys |
fixed it.
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kireol
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Posted: 09/11/05 - 21:30 Post subject:
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ya, i'm just thinking of RL girls who played as DEs. not that many come to mind. but it's been a while....
maath?
Cherrish
ummm. ok, all i remember.
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Maldek
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Posted: 09/11/05 - 21:35 Post subject:
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| Pags wrote: | | Maldek wrote: | | so many chicks were guys |
fixed it. |
lol
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Devook
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Posted: 09/11/05 - 21:36 Post subject:
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Most of the video gaming females tend to play the "cute" characters over the "hot" ones. Make an evil female character model that looks like a hamster and the women will flock to your game.
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Vashers
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Posted: 09/11/05 - 21:47 Post subject:
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| kireol wrote: | ya, i'm just thinking of RL girls who played as DEs. not that many come to mind. but it's been a while....
maath?
Cherrish
ummm. ok, all i remember. |
maath had a DE mask
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kireol
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Posted: 09/11/05 - 21:49 Post subject:
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ok, so i can only think of 1 then. hah
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Brael
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Posted: 09/11/05 - 22:31 Post subject:
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Suriya=female de
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Frehya
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Posted: 09/11/05 - 22:32 Post subject:
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I picked a barb shaman because when I got the game a friend said that was a great combination. I didnt know any better, but well I am tall and blonde irl, so it kinda fit and I finally got used to having to loot my corpse nekkid while a bunch of guys made wisecracks. 
In WoW I loved being a female tauren. I thought they were pretty cute, not in a gnome kinda way but better. I thought the female orcs and trolls had a little **** thang going for them.
The EQ trolls and ogres were just too damn big and over the line gross.
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kireol
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Posted: 09/11/05 - 22:37 Post subject:
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| Brael wrote: | | Suriya=female de |
oh ya. darnit. she was real cool too.
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Galdaria
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Posted: 09/12/05 - 01:54 Post subject:
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I have like 10 characters on WOW. ALL of them are alliance. I tried playing a horde on several occasions but just cant be that f****n ugly. I made an orc, undead and a cow but only played them to like 10-15'ish.
Seriously, no real woman wants to play a character that ugly. Grunting and farting and lumbering around humped over was only entertaining for a week or so.
I also refuse to play a human, but dont really know why I guess its just soo boring and common.
Whatever it is your making, please for the love of God have more than 4 damn races to choose from. Nothing worse than running around looking like someone else. Yuk.
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Janoth
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Posted: 09/12/05 - 02:06 Post subject:
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anyone applied for www.darkandlight.com beta? this game looks sweet
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Frashii
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Posted: 09/12/05 - 02:13 Post subject:
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| kireol wrote: | ya, i'm just thinking of RL girls who played as DEs. not that many come to mind. but it's been a while....
maath?
Cherrish
ummm. ok, all i remember. |
Maath was a barby
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Aluaeia
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Posted: 09/12/05 - 02:48 Post subject:
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Okami teh hawt DE.
Ok, so let me think of the rl female EQ players i know of:
DE SK
gnome cleric (she was hot irl too)
halfling cleric x3
psycho multiclass (this one was my stalker, she made a new character every week to ask me for stuff/PLs, last I heard she killed herself because I wouldn't tell her I loved her.)
wood elf druid (not me, har.)
half elf druid (hated the assless pants)
high elf cleric xlots (most of them are psychos)
human druid
erudite SK
erudite cleric
iksar monk
I can't think of any enchanters of any race that were RL females though.
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Silvermouse
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Baha
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Posted: 09/12/05 - 04:19 Post subject:
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haha brael.. and its true, too.
yes to the original question, and I think that a race being too ugly would be a factor for certain women, but I dont think ultimately that the appearance of certain races are the driving factor behind lack of female interest in mmorpgs..
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Obmar
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Posted: 09/12/05 - 20:26 Post subject:
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Lhani played that avatar lol (she's a mom)
PROOF SIR!
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principessa
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Posted: 09/13/05 - 08:53 Post subject:
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<---erudite wizzie
I chose it because when I first read the synopsis of each race way back, it said that the wizards were the most powerful of all the casters...I wanted to do BIG DAMAGE! ..and erudites were the most intelligent of the races...well I wanted to be smart AND do BIG DAMAGE! LOL
However, I would not have chosen an "ugly" race even if one were available...after all, it is a fantasy game :p
Little did I know that people wouldn't really want a wizard in their group through all the mid-levels:( In the "high-end" though, wizards are a bit more welcome!
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