Characters or Toons

[Kazadora]

I've used the term Toon since the days of EverQuest, long before WoW. It's just what was coined at the time as what our character is, I still use the term and if people don't like it then oh well. There is no politically correct term to begin with, just what our opinion on what they should be called. It's been around for at least 13/14yrs as I've been playing MMO's since 1999. I see some players bash others in chat just because they say toon, who cares!! If you spend that much time being a jerk over their preference to call their TOON or CHARACTER or AVATAR, get over it. There's other things to talk about and many other things to worry about than this.

[Jynx]

Character, anything...anything but toon.

[Silvarex]

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.

[Aerin92]

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.

[Gazille]

Character or if i am lazy i saw my guy

[Maiandra]

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.

[Pavise]

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

[Suliana_Atavuli]

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

[Diaka]

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.