Jen

This will come off as a flame...

... But this article's a bit...um... I donno. It makes me sad. As a gamer, and as a woman, I do not play Warcraft because of a man nor am I good or better at playing the game because of a man. It's one thing to give another player praise for his or her actions, but this post, and the question it asks, comes off as being another "women only play mmos because their husbands/boyfriends taught them to play."

Well, let me tell you this. I started playing WoW five years ago. I did not get into MMOs due to any male relative or love interest but because I read about online and because I played Warcraft (again, of my own ambition, not because of anyone else).

I'm an amazing tank and tank class commander in my guild. The person who taught me to be a better tank back in BC was another woman whose character's name was Riza. Oddly enough, she wasn't attached to any man in the guild or the game either.

Interestingly enough, my doctorate thesis is on female assertion in male dominated online cultures and I am attacking the topic via the way that women represent themselves in online gaming media (I personally have gotten tired of reading papers on why developers give female characters chain mail bikinis while the same piece on a male character is a full suit of armor). This article and any comments are certainly going to be great fodder for my final work!

Pokemon: February 27, 1996
Monster Rancher: November 20 1997.

Oops.

Pokemon came first.

See, I was going to say it looked like the PA Ren Faire in Lancaster!

Famine over on the Secret World forums addressed why, from a dev and customer service stand point, it is a logistical nightmare to have permadeath in an MMO:


"I think it would be super hard to make this work in the sense of having players stay active on the server where we could support it. The reason I say that is because it would be a minority of players who want something that hard.

Generally, when it comes to perm-death, it's a pain to manage because you always have those group of people who try to stay alive forever. Then when they die in-game it becomes a serious issue for the players. I think it would become a nightmare to provide support on our end and then all the concerns with how they actually died would come into play over-and-over again."

From here: http://darkdemonscrygaia.com/showpost.php?p=376160&postcount=22

If you play a female character, take the iron boot flask first (to turn you male). You can then "genderswap" with an orb of deception or orb of the sin'dorei.

I played the beta for a month and decided I would not be buying it.

I, like the next geek girl, love JoCo...but this is NOT "Still Alive." There are three songs used in this Machinima, the main one being "The Device Has Been Modified" by Victims of Science that add a beat track to the game files for Portal.

Peskipiski pesternomi!

That was Lockhart's spell. It translates, literally poor lamb, into "Pesky Pixie Pester No Me!" Unfortunately, it didn't work.

Now I like to look at women in skimpy clothes sometimes too...but that's pretty...ridiculous...for armor. I could never play a game like that. :/

Go google yourself. You will be AMAZED at people that have the same name as you.