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[Rowe]

Always assume all other characters in game are being played by males. It doesn't matter in the slightest. Giving Gil or Gear to another player is a gift or a transaction and unless you are paid at the exchange you can never expect to be compensated for it in the future. People are takers, users and abusers and you will only get burned if you think otherwise.

[Chain]

You know anyone that has an issue with this male/female crap has got to be either just cracking puberty or mentally challenged. In all the years I have played MMOs I've never encountered an issue in game with myself or any of my friends where the character sex had an impact on anything, then again we're all adults and confident in our own sexuality (straight) so that it's not an issue.

[Keres]

Why should it ever matter to you what RL gender an unfamiliar player is? Don't look for hookups in MMOs.

[Zantetsuken]

And what if you put the female sign up when you are in reality a male?

Do you want SE to check each player individually? Do you want them to decide your gender based on the name on the credit card you pay with? If so, what if a 17 year old girl pays with her dad's CC?

Or what if someone has an unisex name (like Robin or Casey), how will SE know what your gender is, will they call you and decide based on your voice?

Here comes Pat.

[Masamune1004]

But all the hermaphrodites and people without gender will feel left out

[Mirage]

That's a real issue, Masamune. They actually will.

[Eekiki]

But all the hermaphrodites and people without gender will feel left out

How much do you want them to program? When is enough enough? What about paralyzed people? Amputees? What about people who are taxonomically confused and believe themselves to be thistle bushes?

[Teakwood]

So, how gross is this thread going to get?

[Eekiki]

So, how gross is this thread going to get?

On a scale from Wilford Brimley to Sarah Jessica Parker, I think we'll get up to Kirstie Alley.

I got up to Kirstie Alley in her "Star Trek II" days, if you know what I mean.

[AsterBarnivere]

And then comes along the topic of "marriage"... oh the rage that will ensue.