Being a man-girl

[MStowastiqVahlshdeh]

There's a real simple answer to this.. Just don't flirt with people online! Its a game, so you should be playing a game. Its not a chat room to cyber and flirt, that's sort of just pathetic. If you want to find someone go out in the REAL WORLD and meet with people, not behind a computer screen.

This I mean is for the men who want to buy female characters presents and flirt and such and complain that they might not be real women, then just DON'T DO IT! lol

~That is all ^^

On another note, you shouldnt feel obligated to play someone of the same gender if you dont feel to do so, as long as your PAYING for your subscription, dont let anyone tell you how to play your game!

Referring to the part of your post that I put in bold: I understand what you mean but to be honest, often people who I have encountered who develop personal relationships in real life through playing an mmorpg with some one, are friends first then things go on from there. What I mean is that their goal in playing an mmorpg was not to get a romantic partner or cyber buddy, it just so happens that they engage with a person over long periods of gaming time and a relationship forms.

These relationships can form whether a person is single or not, looking for love or not. It just so happens that some times people form bonds when playing mmorpgs for hours on end over long periods of time and find that they have compatibilities in real life. This is what can make the community aspects of xi/xiv so enjoyable, romance or not.

-Having online friends you return to in a game and sharing experiences together in that game environment.

It also just so happens that sometimes those bonds can be romantic. In that aspect it is indeed, just that simple. Some people are completely incapable of forming online romances, but just the same, among the similarities in compatibility that draw a person to play an mmorpg in the first place, there is the possibility that two [and sometimes more than two, oh dear!] people can form genuine connections whether they planned to or not. Of course with that comes the possibilities of all the variables that happen in real life encounters, which means deceit, heartbreak, lies, love, infidelity, friendship, lust, friends with benefits, cyber buddies.. all of that.

The best way for me is to be open about it from the point that I think something like that is starting. Still, some people don't recognize it is happening until it is totally blatant and obvious.

[Vanguard319]

I'm a guy, my character was recreated from my second character in FFXI. (same name and all) My first was a male hume rdm, (Sigurd, later Barthandelus when I transferred from Fairy to Sylph.) but I had a lot of difficulty just getting geared up for my playstyle, so I made a mithra thf to try and make more money ingame. Ironically, the cat's stats worked better for my playstyle, and what was originally meant to be a mule wound up becoming my best, being a hi-lvl character, having all jobs unlocked, and more than half of them between lvs 60-89. (primarily Rng, Nin, Dnc, Smn, and Cor.) When I moved to XIV, I opted to make a Miqo'te since I had become kind of partial to my character in XI.

[ShinigamiKayla]

When interviewed back when this game was new, Nobuo Uematsu himself said he would pick Miqo'te as his race if he were to play the game, because he would want his character to be as unlike himself as possible, since he spends every day of his life as himself. I think that was on the making-of DVD that came with the collector's edition (or might have come with every copy, I don't remember)

stated that back on page 12 D= lol

[SAMINUS]

Welcome to the NHK.

Definitely going to watch this. Thank you.

[neorei]

Definitely going to watch this. Thank you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Onf3AIPRQqs

lol watch that clip

[Zyph]

Lol Vina Teelo

Sounds nothing like Vana'diel

>_>;

[LlenCoram]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Onf3AIPRQqs

lol watch that clip

Haha, I definitely have to watch this now. She's wearing the coliseum DoW armour!

[SAMINUS]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Onf3AIPRQqs

lol watch that clip

"I may look like this but I am SA-10, the level thirteen thousand Magic Knight." LOL good stuff!

[Priya]

Long story short, only shallow people think any of this stuff matters (Trolls use it as bait).

I'll just repost what I said in another thread; I've bolded the important parts:

Some guys do it (play as females) because they know they'll get phat lewtz over other people if they're presumed female. Don't say that preferential treatment nonsense doesn't happen, because it does, and it's terribly degrading to everyone involved.

A player's sex doesn't matter in a video game, but for whatever reason both sides seem to throw it out there like it has merit.

You're either a terrible player or you're not; anything else is irrelevant.

[Carzilla]

I say place a gender symbol when I use check command on someone. the /blowkiss emote is a gamble.