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Why do Men choose Female Avatars?

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pussnheels
Viziam
#161 - 2012-06-06 08:03:11 UTC  |  Edited by: pussnheels
Spy 21 wrote:
To me it seems freakishly weird for a male to run around in a virtual universe with the identity of a hot looking woman...

Maybe it's just my upbringing in an older and now outdated world but it just seems to me like playing dress up on a Saturday night and trolling the seamier parts of town.

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because i prefervto watch a pretty face for a few hours instead of some dude even if they are only pixels
or isn't that allowed anymore

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Sol Badguy Durandal
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#162 - 2012-06-06 08:09:16 UTC
Does it really flippin matter? chalk it up to personal taste in avatars and move your sorry ass on. Maybe you should stop trying to hit on female avatars in game and try leaving you house and talking to real life females.
Cannibal Kane
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#163 - 2012-06-06 08:30:33 UTC  |  Edited by: Cannibal Kane
oddly enough. I choose Male since I am one.

I have no fantasy of pretending I want to be female. Although... I remember an episode from Farscape where the bodies of John Criton and the Chick got swapped. John was in her body and she in his.

He could not stop playing with his new found breasts and everybody around me said.. they imagine I would do something like that. What male would not right?


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Rel'k Bloodlor
Federation Front Line Report
Federation Front Line
#164 - 2012-06-06 09:19:32 UTC
All my alts are female I am not. It's more fun to make females than males. I sculpt miniatures and like most that do I find the female form not only more changing but more ascetically pleasing, most of the women I know that sculpt do as well. In games tho they play males as its easier to let some one know your female in a male dominated group than to advertise it.



At the end of the day a male form looks like a poorly hung Christmas tree well the female form has all the fun curves and ratios.

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Bhear
#165 - 2012-06-06 09:29:24 UTC  |  Edited by: Bhear
Tried to create female characters out of pure curiosity. Bio'd all of them.
I never felt comfortable "creating" a female avatar (although it shouldn't matter at all)...

To each his own i guess.
Gerald Taric
NEO DYNAMICS
#166 - 2012-06-06 09:52:31 UTC
Spy 21 wrote:
To me it seems freakishly weird for a male to run around in a virtual universe with the identity of a hot looking woman...

Maybe it's just my upbringing in an older and now outdated world but it just seems to me like playing dress up on a Saturday night and trolling the seamier parts of town.

....
No offense to the irl TV community,,, carry on as you are in peace and love.

S

Novadays this should not bother anymore. In fact it shouldn't in the past either.

What you are representating in a game does not need to be , what you really are. Some people simply want to act like the opposite gender, just for fun - in a game - maybe only for trying out, what it feels like in our society. Others male players simply do not want to stare permanently on the "male back" of their toon. Other just likes it to make their toon of dream, others say "female looks better than male", others say "a female char will get more help offer than a male" ... and so on, and so on.

A simple advice: Games are no dating platform. Don't care about the real gender of the other player. Just accept, what they have choosen. And it does not have any technical effect on gameplay, which gender the toon has.
TigerXtrm
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#167 - 2012-06-06 09:57:07 UTC
For diversity most of all. My main is a guy, my alt is a girl. In a roleplaying sense I think it's also cool to 'play' a badass chick. Not to mention the never ending lolz when people think you're actually a chick and try to come on to you. I swear I've had no less than 10 people convo my alt trying to talk me up, thinking I was actually a girl playing Eve. It was pretty pathetic but ******* hillarious.

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Onyx Nyx
Trillium Invariant
Honorable Third Party
#168 - 2012-06-06 10:02:40 UTC
No one comes onto me though. Sad

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Seishi Maru
doMAL S.A.
#169 - 2012-06-06 11:37:20 UTC
For me it seems extremely disturbing that someone would see its game avatar as an extension of him/herself. That is , at least for my eyes, a clear lack of self security and lack of clear perception of the world. That is a fantasy, and fantasies that you cannot separate from reality are mental disorders, not the other way around!

My main hobby is drawing, and i ma reasonably good at it. In my 12 years of drawing the thing I have drawn most are female faces, because they are beautiful and fascinate me! When I made my eve characters, not for a single moment I even tough on making a male avatar! The same way that in these 12 years I never ever wanted to draw an ugly male face!

Now If you think the picture that you have sculped with eve tools must represent something about your sexuality, then I am sorry for you, you might not notice it, but you DO have a problem! Lack of capability of separate yourself from the things you built in your life is not healthy. This is the type of person that buys an expensive sport car to parade it on street and thing they are better because of it. They accelerate very very fast with these cars on street and feel awesome because they think" I can go so fast!" while they are unable to understand that the merit on going fast is not theirs, its from the engineer that made the car! You are not your car, you are not your drawings, you are not a murderer when you play Grand thief auto, you are not your eve avatar!



If you cannot understand that, I feel sorry for you, because you are among the mass of mentally challenged people that is not even aware of your own surroundings and of yourself.
J3ssica Alba
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#170 - 2012-06-06 11:42:20 UTC
put "jiggle physics" into WiS and it will be a 99% guaranteed success
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Theon Togenada
Doomheim
#171 - 2012-06-06 11:46:55 UTC
In most games the player model is completely aesthetic and has no bearing on the world around him/her. I see people obsess over the character customization in games and wonder why... it really doesn't matter what YOU look like in a game. If you need eye-candy that bad in a game then something is wrong.
Meryl SinGarda
Belligerent Underpaid Tactical Team
#172 - 2012-06-06 11:49:17 UTC
Theon Togenada wrote:
In most games the player model is completely aesthetic and has no bearing on the world around him/her. I see people obsess over the character customization in games and wonder why... it really doesn't matter what YOU look like in a game. If you need eye-candy that bad in a game then something is wrong.


Yeah, all of those people who want new ship models and ship skins available are totally insane!
Hammer Crendraven
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#173 - 2012-06-06 11:50:37 UTC
Why do boys choose Female avatars?


Fixed
Theon Togenada
Doomheim
#174 - 2012-06-06 11:51:45 UTC
Meryl SinGarda wrote:
Theon Togenada wrote:
In most games the player model is completely aesthetic and has no bearing on the world around him/her. I see people obsess over the character customization in games and wonder why... it really doesn't matter what YOU look like in a game. If you need eye-candy that bad in a game then something is wrong.


Yeah, all of those people who want new ship models and ship skins available are totally insane!


Hm.. well, I didn't say anything about ship skins or ship models. But, if you think so... What?
J3ssica Alba
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#175 - 2012-06-06 11:52:46 UTC
Theon Togenada wrote:
In most games the player model is completely aesthetic and has no bearing on the world around him/her. I see people obsess over the character customization in games and wonder why... it really doesn't matter what YOU look like in a game. If you need eye-candy that bad in a game then something is wrong.


bring back c64-era wireframe graphics!

errr no! if not for eye candy why else do people buy gfx cards with a rig built around them? 
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Akirei Scytale
Okami Syndicate
#176 - 2012-06-06 11:53:50 UTC
Theon Togenada wrote:
In most games the player model is completely aesthetic and has no bearing on the world around him/her. I see people obsess over the character customization in games and wonder why... it really doesn't matter what YOU look like in a game. If you need eye-candy that bad in a game then something is wrong.


When you get to pick between things being ugly or nice looking, without impacting anything else, which do you go for?
LittleTerror
Stygian Systems
#177 - 2012-06-06 11:57:47 UTC
because men look vile to me.
Meryl SinGarda
Belligerent Underpaid Tactical Team
#178 - 2012-06-06 11:58:35 UTC
Theon Togenada wrote:
Meryl SinGarda wrote:
Theon Togenada wrote:
In most games the player model is completely aesthetic and has no bearing on the world around him/her. I see people obsess over the character customization in games and wonder why... it really doesn't matter what YOU look like in a game. If you need eye-candy that bad in a game then something is wrong.


Yeah, all of those people who want new ship models and ship skins available are totally insane!


Hm.. well, I didn't say anything about ship skins or ship models. But, if you think so... What?


"If you need eye-candy that bad in a game then something is wrong."

Just sayin'
LittleTerror
Stygian Systems
#179 - 2012-06-06 11:58:55 UTC
https://image.eveonline.com/Character/90964646_512.jpg

I mean why would I want to look at that?

No offence to you op.
Lady Bavmorda
Grau Foundation
#180 - 2012-06-06 12:03:50 UTC
I have an even balance across my characters. Some males, some females, I usually come up with a name first at which point the gender is pretty much already decided.