EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hang on - there are women who play EVE?

Yeah but I don't think that is so much the case for EVE with guys having female avatars anyway. I mean like early in EQ1 I realized guys did this, "RP'd" as a female primarily to get stuff and help from other players, and other games of the sort I've noticed this since then. WoW is like that too (played a few months), such as EQ1, since there is no real PvP system in place in the general game and people can sit back and avoid encounters with other players in that way, allowing them to play a weak and defenseless girl that needs help and free stuff (as they perceive it).

But when you play games with pvp, you find a lot of female avatars. They don't play them to get stuff and help, but to be underestimated, playing on the stupidity of some peoples perceptions, or preconceptions. I noticed this first in early UO among PvPers and FW players where you would find a lot of female characters but played by guys. Yes, some were actually women, I've known some really good pvpers that were women especially back then in UO with the high-fantasy theme that lured many women to the game. EVE falls under the same format, so you find a lot of pvpers sporting female avatars, though is technology based so less actual female players. However with the nature of EVE, there is no real advantage since the secret is out and this game has like 4% female subscribers... at best? Maybe 1% that are not forced to play with their BF's or husbands but actually play because they like this game format.

Other than that, EVE is less about the avatar and more about the ship you fly into combat. Here the avatar is more of a decoration, like a hot car with a lady standing next to it. So much different than those progression theme parks and their character immersion in an RP setting. In games like WoW or GW2 will find those long forum debates where people are all upset/disgusted over guys with female characters, but that doesn't happen here as this isn't a progression theme park where players want their immersion of game into real-life and thinking someone in a female avatar is a prospect to play cute little mini-games with. Here we just make war, and no one is going to give you what you want unless you take it from them by force.

Sweeping generalization vs sweeping generalization?
Anyway I also included GF's to that sweeping generalization in another post, I was just on my tablet when writing that so didn't get into any detail. Yeah so you're GF misses that time with you playing EVE? Sure, women want to feel needed by their BF's. Doesn't change the numbers.

er huh? I did? Point to where reading complete paragraphs touched you in an inappropriate place. Or making lead-in humor of sorts for that matter, we take all things SERIOUSLY in EVE