what gender do you play?

Hi, I'm doing some research for a class I'm currently taking. and I'd like to ask some questions on how people play and what they think about playing different genders. feel free to skip over any questions you don't feel comfortable answering. your avatars name will not be used in the final report.

1.what is your gender?
2.Have you ever played a character of the opposite sex?
3.why or why not?
4.Do you often suspect anyone else of playing a gender not their own?
5.Do you treat players differently based on their avatar’s gender?
6.Have you taken advantage of your characters gender?
7.If you know someone is playing a character of a gender not their own, do you treat them differently?
8.Would you be more likely to play a character of the other sex in another game? If so, which one(s)? Why?

1. Both (mostly male)
2. Yup
3. I play different in GW mainly for the appearance. I hate the male monk animations and looks so I play a female monk.
4. Sometimes
5. Not really no
6. No.. That's very difficult
7. No I don't
8. Depends on how good they look and such. In games like Oblivion I mainly play males. Not often I play female except SOMETIMES in MMO's.

There's my answers ^

1. Male
2. Yes
3. Got bored of dudes, really
4. I assume every female avatar is really a guy
5. Nope
6. Nope
7. Nope
8. Yes. My best character in Oblivion is a chick, and I've played in other RPGs and games as a female

1. Male.
2. Yeah.
3. Because most male characters are ugly, and female characters look purdy. Not to mention some dances are bad / good (Male Ele dance = wtf?).
4. I'm not really concerned about real-life genders.
5. Nope.
6. I don't really understand that one.
7. Nope.
8. Depends. I don't want extremely ugly characters, now do I?

@Bryant -- Oblivion FTW!

1. Male.
2. Yes.
3. Mostly I select based on my preference of elite/obsidian armour models for each gender of each class.
4. Suspicion is never a factor. I've no real interest in people's real world gender.
5. Never.
6. A couple of times
7. Never.
8. Again, depending on the character/armour models for each gender. ie: I can't stand butch warriors, so I'll always role a female in Gws.

I'll be picking a random character of mine, so I'll pick Dimitri Cervantes.

1- Male
2- Yes.
3- Because I just didn't want all male characters. I wanted to have a combination of both.
4- Strangely enough, the two female friends who play Guild Wars do not have male characters. Mostly everyone I know who is male prefer female characters.
5- Gender means nothing to me when it comes to meeting people or making groups.
6- My female characters tend to join groups more than my males, but my male characters tend to, as strange as this is, not get attacked as much from monsters.
7- Only if someone only played their opposite gender.
8- I have no comment.

Oh deh babie!

I think number six was directed towards people who act all flirty just to get a few extra gold or other items/services.

1. Male
2. Yes indeed
3. I figure if I'm going to look at a character for a million hours, it might as well be a pretty girl
4. Yes. I always figure a female character is a guy in RL.
5. No
6. No
7. No
8. I usually play both male and female characters in all of the games I play for visual variety

Good luck with your project!

1. Male
2. No
3. Just have no desire to
4. Sure
5. No
6. No
7. No
8. Probably not

1.Male.
2.Yes.
3.I'd rather stare at a woman's arse when I play than a man's.
4.Yes.
5.No.
6....................................no.
7. Don't know, don't care
8. Not sure.

Male
Yes
Because if I play I'd rather stare at a female char all day, then a male polygons.
I don't suspect it I know so.
No it's a avatar :S
Yes I make sweet love to them everyday
Hell yeah I'll go like isn't it fun to look at female polygons . Female chars > Male chars
All computer based/ video based chars, that don't envolve gender role playing.

Silly questions if you ask me.

9 chars 1 Male ele (my first gw char ever, acts like a mule & and an ass ), Female: Warrior, Paragon, 2 Ele's, Necromancer, Ranger, Ritualist & Monk.

1.Female
2.Yes. One, my male ele mule.
3.Because Male elonian eles with chia pet hair = funny
4.Yes lol...
5.Nope
6.Hmm... not really, no
7.Yes, because I find it a bit strange.
8.No. I'm female. Why would I play more male chars?


To males that play females to have something to stare at: They're pixels. should u really be staring anyway? ew.

1. Male.
2. Yeah.
3. When I made my warrior, a female, I didn't like male armors. Then I made a female monk out of boredom.
4. Most female characters are controlled by males sooooo.... and I know a couple gals who have male chars.
5. Depends. I still call female characters "she" until I'm told it's a guy...
6. Nope.
7. Nah.
8. Don't care so much, depends of the playability... Usually prefer playing males because I'm male; being gay I prefer looking at male bodies, but I do like variety sometimes and when armors doesn't suit me for males, I play female chars. Although sometimes it's just awkward to play as a female, especially if I have no choice in choosing genders (Diablo 2 comes to mind).

Just for reference I also think the age, or maturity plays a part in picking a male or female char.
< Late twenties.

Depends on the Armor for the Class.

Monk-female.
Warrior-Male.
Assassin-Male.
Dervish-Male.
Ranger-Female.
Paragon-Female.
Necro-Female.
Rit-Male.

1.what is your gender? female
2.Have you ever played a character of the opposite sex? nope
3.why or why not? they fugly as hell, the male characters
4.Do you often suspect anyone else of playing a gender not their own? yes
5.Do you treat players differently based on their avatar’s gender? no
6.Have you taken advantage of your characters gender? yes
7.If you know someone is playing a character of a gender not their own, do you treat them differently? no
8.Would you be more likely to play a character of the other sex in another game? If so, which one(s)? Why? no. game designers are a bunch of horny guys who want to see sexy chics, and totally fail at giving male charactesr proper attention. So for that, I will always play female characters.

1.what is your gender? - male
2.Have you ever played a character of the opposite sex? - no
3.why or why not? - why should i?
4.Do you often suspect anyone else of playing a gender not their own? - many times
5.Do you treat players differently based on their avatar’s gender? - never
6.Have you taken advantage of your characters gender? - no
7.If you know someone is playing a character of a gender not their own, do you treat them differently? - i try not to
8.Would you be more likely to play a character of the other sex in another game? If so, which one(s)? Why? No, same answer as question3

Hope that helped :P

1.My gender is male; my main's gender is also male.
2.Yup
3.Depends from the class; for instance I prefer a female monk as resembles a more "kind" touch
4.Always
5.Depends from player's behaviour
6.Sorry I didn't get this question x)
7.Of course not.
8.Well when I had to play games like Diablo2 LoD, Oblivion, Dark Messiah and such I always made a male "smash heads" warrior. You ask why? Well because male warriors DO smash heads!

1. Male.
2. No.
3. Because i'm not female. Duh.
4. This is the Internet.
5. I'm not a big fan of pixels.
6. No...
7. Nope.
8. No.

1. Male.
2. Yes.
3. Because I can.
4. Never. In fact, I ALWAYS expect EVERY person in the internet (that includes online games such as Guild Wars) to be male.
5. See 4.
6. I also expect that everyone else ALWAYS expects EVERY person in the internet (that includes online games such as Guild Wars) to be male. Which means I always expect that everyone knows that I am male, while playing a female char. So naturally I can't take any advantage of my avatar's gender.
7. See 4 (and never had a situation where the opposite was proven, so.. no.)
8. Always depends on my mood and on what looks better for a certain class in a certain game.