Poll: Pretending To Be Female

[Xyless]

One time, on my friend's TF2 server, a little kid showed up while we were playing bball2. He kept using the sniper, and was raving about his amazing skills (he wasn't that good). So one of my friends and I decided to mess with him. He (my friend) is good with voice acting, so he started to use his amazing Scottish voice while I used my little girl voice (surprisingly accurate) to hit on him.

Well, maybe not "hit on" him, but I kept saying things like "you're so cute and amazing can you take me to my school dance?" and when the boy turned me down, my friend would respond with "aw, yer gonna let this poor lass down? she really has her hopes on you"

Eventually the kid accepted, and then we kicked him because he was acting like a dick on the server anyways.

 

[Hristo Tzonkov]

I've done it a few times with a friend on WoW.We pretended we were a couple and we changed the female part every so and so to keep it funny.Oh and we talked a lot about sex to see reactions which are pretty much hilarious most of the time as people desperately try to fit in the sex conversation without having any experience.

 

[Firia]

I'm surprised by the lack of 'yes' answers.

I think the opposite happens a lot more: Females who play males to keep the creeps away.

When Playstation Home was first released, you could voice chat anywhere. I made my avatar as close to me as I could, and set out into the extremely limited world. People would keep doing the running man (which was as close to humping as the emotes got) right on my ass. So I in turn made a model of a tall redheaded afro guy. I'd swap to that every time I'd get the troll on me. They'd stop right away. I eventually just left the avatar running.

(then people thought I was a 12 y/o boy with a mans avatar.... so I just stopped visiting PS Home.)

 

[Jake Lewis Clayton]

i've had one or two female characters on mmorpgs, just because i wanted the armor to look different or the experience to be shaken up a little, and guildies/interested people who ask find out i'm male.

Never turned round to someone and said, i'm a woman give me coins though.

 

[Mariena]

Well, I am female .. and often enough, when you get down to guild business, it all ends up on Ventrilo or something anyway. Kinda hard to fool that one, I'd imagine.

I've pretended to be a guy though, a few times. :3

 

[Farotsu]

From the other point of view, if a girl tries to get something from me by just using the fact that she's a she, I lose interest really fast. Be it the internet or IRL. Sure if you push your tits at my face I do enjoy the experience but it still won't get you anywhere. Heck one girl thought that I hated her because I didn't do what she asked when she tried that trick on me.

Never pretended anything like that myself and I wouldn't try to get free stuff from it. Doesn't make much sense to me as I want to get that stuff myself.

Edit: Oh and it's pretty frustrating when people mistake me for a female IRL because I have long hair. I mean I have a pretty long beard too and people still make the mistake when pass by my workspot. I'd cut my hair but the two girls that I irregularily sleep with like it so... One of them threatened to shave her head bald if I did so it's still growing...

 

[Kopikatsu]

Every female character I make in a game without voice chat, I do exactly that.

Works every. Damned. Time. No regrets. I mean, it is a video game, after all.

Heck, everyone I know on Guild Wars still think I'm the girl I pulled from a google image search onto their guild forums.. they'll never figure it out.

I did this, too.

Interestingly, I never did the 'Oh baby, you're so hot. If you give me all of your best items, I might go out with you...' thing that alot of guys do. I basically acted like a gigantic asshole. Apparently not only is that acceptable behavior for a woman, but it gets guys to fawn over you and drown you in fun trinkets.

There's your secret to life! Be an asshole and everything falls into place.

 

[NecroFantasy]

I've never pesonally, but I've got a male friend's who online handle is always this:

'lydiababy'

Seriously. You have no idea how many times he's gotten help from other people 'just because they feel like helping'. The hilarious part is that we once went to an Internet cafe to play together and he got hit on by different 5 guys in 20 minutes.

Then I burst their bubbles by saying 'you do know he's a guy... right...?'

Reactions ranged from 'oh, I knew that' (blatant lies) to 'ew, fuck off'

 

[Vykrel]

never, i always play as what i am in real life.

there definitely is incentive to playing as a female, though. especially in MMO's. my brother once played a secondary female character in Tibia, and convinced a guy to let her(him) use his house and to give him free items and cash etc.

 

[OdyCay]

every chance i get in a game i go female... for the better veiw of course, i mean why would i want to see a guy in a game when i called see a girl

 

[Keepitclean]

Yes it works. I played Runescape when I was 12 and did this all the time. After the game got boring for my friends and I we'd do stuff like this because we thought it was funny. It was.

 

[Zyntoxic]

I am a girl, and while I also had my unwanted share of harassment and flirting, even the occasional proposal... but I've also been handed alot of free stuff and favours, even though I didn't ask for them mind you!
since I don't like being given stuff it has been one of several reasons why I'd not say I'm a girl in a game, free stuff makes me feel awkward and in debt...

the worst kind though is girls who actually use their gender as a kind of leverage, for example, once I was in a guild in WoW and we had this shadow priest who was a girl IRL, and one hell of an attention whore at that, she gave naked pics to the Guild master to get loot priority during raids...

EDIT: oh I was just reminded of a situation where a friend of mine has kinda felt like her gender being much, much more of a con than a pro.
she was in a Guild and they had the policy of "no women allowed" because accoarding to them women in games cause drama, so when she had to go onto ventrilo she had to fake her voice in order to be allowed to stay in the guild until one day she tired of it and she confessed and got insta kicked...

 

[Griffolion]

No. I have Aspergers Syndrome (clinically diagnosed, and god do I hate the idiots who make it necessary to say that)

May I ask why that irks you so much?

 

[Ajna]

Where's that one comic strip?

The one that says "if I'm going to be staring at the same ass all day, I'd rather it be a hot ass".

Because that's why I play as chicks in video games. I don't like men, I like women. If a game is third person, I'm going to be playing as a woman.

 

[Thedutchjelle]

In Starcraft II, you can set a portrait/avatar for yourself. Most people choose the portraits they unlock after an X amount of wins, but my friends and I used one of the few female portraits (Kate Lockwell, a reporter).

We never mentioned we were girls ourselves (we're not, chosing Lockwell was just a in-joke), but it happend one or two times that the opponents thought we were female because of the picture we chose for ourselves. It only makes it easier for us if they spend more time (Trash)talking and less time gaming.

 

[CommanderKirov]

Any sad sack who falls for "ZOMG BOOBZ IRL" gets what he deserves in this case.

But honestly? It's just an advanced way of begging. And that's sad as well.

 

[Adrian Neyland]

Just now, on that poll

 

[Whateveralot]

I wouldn't, but a lot of guys thought I was a girl because I played as a female character. They never asked if I were a girl or not, but they were hitting on me regardless. It was rather funny. It got me a lot of free stuff as well.

 

[Jessabi]

I am a girl, but have never used my female status to try and manipulate male gamers into giving me stuff. Occasionally I'll get a kind stranger sending me an ingame item, or giving me some gold, sometimes without ever speaking to them but it happens veeery rarely. Apart from that, the only thing I've gotten is unwanted flirting and propositions of sex. Yes, a guy on WoW actually offered me gold if I would have cyber sex with him. I found it disturbingly hilarious, /laughed repeatedly and gave a very firm 'NO' in response. His reply was to try to heighten the price. After getting a laugh from his attempts, I eventually just blocked him and went on my way.

I've since been told by my male friends that I should have gotten the price as high as I could, took the gold and THEN blocked him, which on hindsight would have been a good plan but I was very taken aback at the time heh.