Characters or Toons

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Originally Posted by Kazadora

PST - Please Send Tell, just an acronym, which to me makes sense. I'm guessing you also ignore players who say ARC? ARN? THM? What about when someone asks LFG? It appears you don't know English as well

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Ive never seen it as send tell, always say tell. Nothing against the acronym, just what I saw it standing for. and ARC, ARN, etc arent acronyms, theyre abbreviations, which I have no problems with.

Toon! I was playing when this was first coined. On the Realm Online, in 1992 or 3. The characters in that game looked exactly like Cartoons, they were both flat and had that black boarder all cartoon characters have. It saved time typing to use toon and it stuck. From then on it was applied to every game, no matter how badly the devs and programmers disliked it, it continued to gain favor in the gaming public. I still prefer it to any other word short cut that others have tried to use, because its simply simple. The characters maybe virtual 3d master pieces but so are many cartoon characters today! And that makes them simply put still Toons.

Character. Or char when I'm lazy. Toon just sounds childish to me and reminds me of looney toons or something which is obviously what we're not playing as in FFXIV lol. I don't really mind anything else, but I cringe every time I hear someone say "toon" ingame.

I say character. I REFUSE to use the word "toon" in this regard.

Character or if i am lazy i saw my guy

Other MMOs use cartoon characters. FFXIV uses dolls.
(Seriously, watch how they move. And speaking of motion...)
I move that we all now use the term "doll" as the appropriate label.

Toon, just to annoy all those strongly against it to make them seethe with anger :P.

"My duder" or "my guy" - the term "toon" makes me cringe.

Char/Character

Hearing people call them toons doesn't make me shake with rage from my very core though. It's whatever.

My first MMO was EverQuest 1 and people pretty regularly used both.

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Originally Posted by Invz

Character or Toon?

Which nomenclature do you use and why?

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I think "Toons" was a World of Warcraft thing. In Final Fantasy, they have always been known as characters, far as I can tell. In other games, including my 2 day "what the hell i'll give it a try since I have nothing else to do right now World of Warcraft run", I still called my character a character.

CHARACTER!

I actually interchange them. It all depends on who I am spending my time with and chatting with. If I am chatting with my friends from WOW I say toon where it originated from because lets be honest... the whole of wow's world looks like a cartoon. When I play any other MMO I usually say character or my character's name that I am referencing. My character name has been Leedora since EQ 1 so I just refer to her as Lee or Leedora just like everyone else who knows me does lol.

Honestly, I could care less what version you use to describe it. Neither option bothers me, hence why I interchange them and use whatever matches the people I am chatting with. If Bob always says toon then I will say that so that he understands what I mean, while if Tim says character then I will use that term, but mainly for me its just always Lee =)

I said character or char for the longest time. Suddenly out of nowhere people started saying toon a lot. I first heard it the most from City of Hero/City of Villains players. I don't know if that's where it came from. People say it came from WoW but I didn't hear it in WoW for the first two years I played it. Anyways...I say Character sometimes and sometimes toon... I hate the term toon but it just happens...

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Originally Posted by Tareel

But honestly, how much "toon" seems to piss people off makes me want to use it a lot more.

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Originally Posted by Amenian

I've taken to calling them toons out of spite after being in the beta and seeing how ridiculously stupid people get about that term being used.

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Originally Posted by MladyK

I'll be using toon strictly out of spite and snarkiness from this point forward. :D

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Originally Posted by robvp

people offended by the word toon make me want to use it even more

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Originally Posted by Pavise

Toon, just to annoy all those strongly against it to make them seethe with anger :P.

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Lovely, caring community.

toon = character

toon
cartoon
cartoon character
character

i did it^^

Toon was around pre MMO but WoW and a few other games made it popular, I guess becuase WoW Characters look like car"toons".

Some sources for the word, Toon (1984, pen and paper rpg), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988, movie) and Tiny Toon Adventures (1990, cartoon show).

Character. But people can say toon if they want. it stopped bothering me a long time ago.

Does bother me when the language hipsters decide that they're going to use Toon because it annoys people though. Why change the way you would normally say something just because it'll annoy another group of people?

I have always used character but I frequently hear people refer to them as toons. I started off playing D&D years ago so character is just what feels right regardless of the game I'm playing.

I have a dps toon!

Neither. PCs

I like spoonerisms, swapping the first letters of two words to create new words or a new phrase.

Thus, "Character or Toon" I shall know them as:

Tharacters

ProTip: Don't try the other spoonerism though.

I generally call them chars, cause I'm used to it.

However when I see people that get annoyed by the word toon I switch to that.

May be somewhat troll'ish? I guess, but if you get annoyed by something as little as a different name for the same thing, I can't help but enjoy poking fun at that.

I've always used the term "character", even when referring to cartoon characters. To me, cartoon is the medium in which you may find a character but it is not the character itself. It's no different from calling you character a game, a movie or a book; it'll never make sense to me...

I don't find the term anywhere near as offensive as those who use it for the sole purpose of trying to be offensive however. It's just a word but trolls are so much worse ~_~ Maybe I'm naive but I believe in respecting others unless they earn disrespect and I don't think much earns disrespect more than disrespecting others. Most people are just doing the best they can with what they've got.

personally I call them characters. toon to me sounds like a term with less meaning (and it also sounds like it came from WoW which sounds stupid as well). ain't hating but if you call your char a toon i'd automatically assume you came from WoW and don't care much about story or PvE and just want to DPS and endgame 24/7

Characters for me as well.

Hell, it used to be paper doll back in the day.

Henceforth, I shall refer to them as Toonacters.

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Originally Posted by Tarantula

Henceforth, I shall refer to them as Toonacters.

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Why not Charactoons?

If i use any term for my character i mostly use toon and char or character only if the person im talking to doesnt understand what i mean by toon.
It has nothing to do with some hating or stuff i just dont think of toon as something even remotely offending.
Its easyer to write when typing at lightning speed too. I dont understand the fuss. Amazing how some people lash out with words like retard, blacklisting threats and so on, its actually a quite cartoonish (oversubscribed (not sure if thats the right term), exeggerated) response.
And no its not from WoW as some ppl in this thread already stated.

My character is not a cartoon. Toon doesn't make sense.

If people say toon I think it is worthy of a blacklist, actually.

If they say that, you basically know they are coming from WoW. I don't get along with most of the people who come from WoW, because most of the ones I've met were immature, obnoxious, and basically don't understand basic concepts of party play. Note that I mean "basing on my previous experiences!"

I don't want to generalize and say they are all bad, I just feel like the ones I have met are bad at grasping simple party mechanics. (letting the tank accumulate hate before starting their 'rotations' they are so fond of, etc...)

Therefore, if someone uses the word 'toon', I am conditioned to assume they are coming in from an MMO where party mechanics don't really matter, and I would prefer not to play with them. They may not end up on blist, but they won't end up in my party, either. This is just a matter of preference, but I'm coming in from a solid XI background and I would just rather play with XI vets. They are just more my style of people.

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I'm just going to leave this here ....

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/23/tech/g...osing-toontown

I say toon, because I can, and "char" snobs are idiots.

Blacklist me, because I don't wanna play with people anal enough to bitch about what their character in a video game is called.

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Originally Posted by ForteXX

I also ignore (or send messages to) people who say PST, because 'please say tell' sounds like they dont know english. Dont mind it at all if they say send tell or anything along those lines.

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PST is actually "Please Send Tell," which makes perfect sense, so those people should ignore you for being stupid.

Despite the dismay of the 'overly-sensitive-about-inconsequential-subjects' crowd, both terms are here to stay. As such, I use both, they're interchangeable

I hate when people say toon, it's so annoying. It's partly because I think of games like WoW and almost every other game with crappy graphics where you make dosens of character because you have to. But in a ff game they're definetly ment to have more of an impact on the game then just keep making more and never get attached to one. And a game as rich with story and detail as this is ment to breath life into the characters and calling it a character is what you call anyone in a book or movie which is the same here. Calling it a toon just takes us back from what this game is. My characters not a toon. I haven't heard once people calling them toons litereally since the start of phase 4 when there was jut a bunch of people saying it and now I even see it in game when people shout. Honestly, in my entire time playing 1.0 no one has ever said toon

Toons? What? ..Who even..? LOL the only people I could image doing this are kids who grew up playing "Toon Town" that kid's MMO. Why in the hell else would you ever refer to your character as a toon??

haha.

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Originally Posted by Gramul

Lovely, caring community.

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because the people that are ready to scream at you, ignore you as a "wow player" or otherwise dismiss you on sight as a mouthbreathing idiot for daring to use the word toon are such loving people.

"character", "alt", "my [insert class here]" or I call them by name

While I'm not one to refer to my Tonkapoo as a "toon," I'd like to formally request that anyone who finds the terminology to be so offense it warrants a blacklist or some form of verbal degradation, please just blacklist me right now. Thank you!

Character for me. Never thought it sounded right with toon. Reminds me of Toon Town from Roger Rabbit.

Character for me as well. I'll have to jump on board with the people saying Toon makes them cringe. Shallow I know, but Toon is just awful sounding. Just doesn't jive with my vision of RPG/MMO.

Me, I'm not playing a character, I'm not playing a toon, This isn't toon town. I'm living my life in Eorzea and I enjoy the Immersion. I don't refer to myself in the third person while playing.
"I just got my character to level x marauder." no. "I just leveled to x marauder."

Toon is offensive. We are not cartoons, we are not playing toon town.

The only thing funnier than someone offended by the use of the word toon is someone offended by others' having an aversion to it.

I cringe when people use it myself. But, go right ahead and use it. You have every right to reveal to others how stupid you are by sounding stupid. :)