Research: Player vs. Character Gender

Mysteran

Hello.  We are hoping you take a few moments to answer the following survey.
  Please don't take this is spam or anything like that.  We are players who are doing a project for a class and would appreciate your help. 
This survey has no scientific merit and will not be used for any published works.  All information will be kept confidential.  We do not need character names, games played (current or past).

 

Please submit your responses to [email protected]
.  Do not respond to this post with your answers 

 

Thanks!

 

1. What is your gender?

 

2. If you are a male player:
1. I play a female character because __________
2. I play a male character because ____________

 

3. 
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4. Bonus Question:  Do you like pie?

SoSikWitIt

So...Bets on how long until this is locked/deleted?

I say...20 minutes.

britoca

Vixen, is that you?  

Theodoryk

Ouch.

Neptus

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Originally posted by SoSikWitIt
So...Bets on how long until this is locked/deleted?
I say...20 minutes.

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45 minutes

Boozbaz

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Originally posted by britoca
Vixen, is that you?  

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Heh heh heh. This was pretty coincidental.

Theodoryk

Here's a more interesting survey for the members of our forum community:

Are you;

a) A man.
b) A man who pretends to be a teenaged girl on these forums so as to draw attention to yourself.
c) A woman who pretends to be a man so as to avoid unsolicited attention  on these forums.
d) A boy who uses these forums to  pretend to be a man.
e) A bunny with a  pancake on its head.

SoSikWitIt

Am I the only one who never understood the whole, "I play a girl toon because I like a nice scenery" statement? It's just so weird. Yeah, I find women more attractive than men, but I don't want to play as one. I want a huge menacing characters with a huge axes, dripping in blood, guts, and testosterone.

Malachi1975

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Originally posted by Theodoryk
Here's a more interesting survey for the members of our forum community:

Are you;

a) A man.
b) A man who pretends to be a teenaged girl on these forums so as to draw attention to yourself.
c) A woman who pretends to be a man so as to avoid unsolicited attention  on these forums.
d) A boy who uses these forums to  pretend to be a man.
e) A bunny with a  pancake on its head.

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If you'd have said "waffle" I would have chosen E. You're biased against waffles! Bad person!

Theodoryk

God damnit, wtf is wrong with me?!1

f) A waffle.

Malachi1975

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Originally posted by SoSikWitIt

Am I the only one who never understood the whole, "I play a girl toon because I like a nice scenery" statement? It's just so weird. Yeah, I find women more attractive than men, but I don't want to play as one. I want a huge menacing characters with a huge axes, dripping in blood, guts, and testosterone.

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I never quite got that one either. I mean it's not as if I stare at my characters posterior the entire game. I will, however, own up to playing female characters from time to time. My reasons are usually a little more logical than "I like looking at girl butts"

1- I may be roleplaying siblings or family members.

2- In the case of WoW ALL my caster classes were female. Why? Becuase something about a mage who looks like he could benchpress three orcs on a bench just did NOT look right to me. If the character customisation stinks, as it does in WoW, I may pick classes and genders by the pure physicallity of it.

britoca

I make both kinds of gender characters.  I mostly like variety, but yeah, the eye candy is nice as well.

britoca

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Originally posted by Boozbaz

Originally posted by britoca
Vixen, is that you?  

Heh heh heh. This was pretty coincidental.

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exactly! hence, the humor

Laserwolf

1. Male

2. As a male I only really play male characters because I like to be "attractive" to the female players and characters. I know that sounds pathetic but it helps to increase my enjoyment of the game as well as the immersion factor. Same reason I almost always play a human in MMORPGs. I like to view aliens as aliens and that is hard to do when you look just like them.

Bonus: I don't really like pie actually, or rather I could easily live without it. I don't mind cream pies but I am not a fan of anything too sweet.

Rikimaru_X

I'm not emailing. If you came here to do a survey...

methane47

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Originally posted by Laserwolf

. I like to view aliens as aliens and that is hard to do when you look just like them.

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Racist