Quote Originally Posted by Geesus View Post
LOL I know so many guys who say that and to me that's just retarded. If you're staring at a character's ass in game then you have a problem.
There is pretty much two main aproaches when people creat a MMO character.

Party A: I create my character to represent the ideal me, what I find most represents a ideal me. When I accomplish something in the game I accomplished it, I am my character.

Party B: I creat my character to represent my ideal character, what I find most interesting. When I acomplish something it's they who are sucsessfull due to my actions, my character is not me.

It's a main distinction to wether people play their avatar as themselves or just a proxy to play the game. Those who feel like their avatar is pretty much themselves will tend to create characters of the same gender / physical appearance or based on their ideal physical condition. While the latter treat their avatar as just that, a tool to play the game with. The avatar is a seperate entity to them and not a extension of themselves in the online world, so they choose to pick it by what is asthetically pleasing to them including different genders.

Nothing strange or creepy about it. Some people just don't conform to everyone elses silly ideals and have their own....who woulda thunk it. By the way I fall into Party A.