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!