Guys who pose as Female Charaters in MMO's A.k.A MMO Catfish

[LadyChaos]

Keep this up and I'll be getting the PC version too just to run with like minds!

haha is this the part where sposed to say we have cookies over here =p

[ANTIDEAD]

Catfish is about people who lie on social networking sites.

MMO's are video games not social networking sites.

[Ookami Soldier]

haha is this the part where sposed to say we have cookies over here =p

WAY TOO PC! You always heard "We have cookies" for "Join us" msgs on Tera and most MMO's

Need to get you into consoles where cookies no longer exist!

[munrock]

If someone's dumb enough to give you free stuff because they think you're a girl (or if you are a girl), take it. There's a book by Charles Darwin that will explain how you're helping the progress of the human species by doing so.

[Merkery N16]

never understood the " i make female chars cuz i like to see a female from behind rather than a male char". Do you really stare at your char when you're playing?

I mean, character customization is important for me as it gives you that sense of uniqueness. But i don't stare so much time at my char to a point i need to make a female.... i just play the game.

When I'm playing any online game, i never look to the other people as male/female/kid/adult. When I'm online everyone are "gamers" to me.

it dont turn me on or nothing like that lol i grew up on games like tomb raider and i think its sexy as hell a girl kicking backside

[Travie]

I play both male and female toons. I don't see the problem, unless you're telling people you're female when you're male or visa versa.

Probably won't happen in this game though... I mean, we do have voice chat, hah!

[Saraya]

you guys/gals ever seen that MTV show Catfish? Its pretty much a show where they meet some one whos been speaking a some one online for a long time and are in love with them but have never met the person then these 2 guys help them meet to see if they are who they say they are in person which in most times it aint its a different person than in the pics,some guy posing as a girl or girl posting as a guy

anyway to my point

Their are alot of guys who play as female characters so they can try charm free things off of guys like a cyber gold digger lol happens all the time ive caught a catfish or two of my own one tried and tried and tried to sweet talk me (via in game text) and then say hey do you got a few thousand gold you can give me and when i never would get mad at me until one day they said BTW im a guy and you thought i was a girl your sad...... yea im the sad one

Have you ever ran into one of these catfish? and if so what happened
if not whats your view on this? maybe your a catfish who would like to tell us about some huge item some one gave you

There's two issues here.

The first is about people who intentionally deceive for the purpose of gaining an advantage that wouldn't otherwise befall them normally.
It's not news that in fantasy based MMORPGs, that reputation, stature, ph4t lewtz and ego are king. People are deviant schemers and outright liars to make their prior mentioned attributes greater - in part because they are greedy, and in part because they are social rejects or socialites who cannot obtain normal gains the real world...which is more of a psyche issue leading into the next and obvious part of the subject..

While this is an interesting discussion that delves further into the dark side of the human psyche within use of the internet/online gaming, I find it ironic that it's on the forums of a game where the environment is more hostile to these types of people than most others.

Catfish is about people who lie on social networking sites.

MMO's are video games not social networking sites.

MMO's shouldn't be social networking sites, but they have become them or at least an alternate to them.

Social networking sites are a haven for a narcissistic generation, and MMO developers are all too happy to use that to their advantage.

Fortunately, it's been fairly obvious so far that TRION already has a game for these type of people, and they weren't interesting in making another.

never understood the " i make female chars cuz i like to see a female from behind rather than a male char". Do you really stare at your char when you're playing?

I mean, character customization is important for me as it gives you that sense of uniqueness. But i don't stare so much time at my char to a point i need to make a female.... i just play the game.

When I'm playing any online game, i never look to the other people as male/female/kid/adult. When I'm online everyone are "gamers" to me.

That's how people should view it, but they can't. After enough years of these games I can confidently (And of course apologies to the exceptions to the rule..) say that most people who do this are hiding behind their avatar, rather than simply playing it.

If someone has to have that explained to them or it doesn't make sense - then they are most likely one of those people.


There is one scenario though that I am accepting of on the matter of cross gender playing, and that is for the purpose of realism and immersion. If you hadn't noticed in many MMO titles, (particularly with human like species) the size of the characters is either ill proportioned or simply absurd. Often you get games where the men are massive shouldered, huge chested, big head... just way way unrealistic looking. Or the armor/equipment is over the top and grossly large.

Occasionally you get products like the Final Fantasy games, where the human men are more or less average and it is sooooo refreshing.

So with that said, I know people who play the females because despite having model-esque proportions(yes I know sadly not all women are as attractive as they are in TERA) at least things like height, shoulder width, foot/hand size, etc. are all relatively realistic. Can you imagine if they did to the women what they did with the men - made them all look like female hulks and body builders?

[Merkery N16]

LMAO!! i like your style

[Darth Sully]

I will be playing as a male. Use voice chat which will help distinguish if its a male or female lol. There are creepers everywhere.

[Merkery N16]

There's two issues here.

The first is about people who intentionally deceive for the purpose of gaining an advantage that wouldn't otherwise befall them normally.
It's not news that in fantasy based MMORPGs, that reputation, stature, ph4t lewtz and ego are king. People are deviant schemers and outright liars to make their prior mentioned attributes greater - in part because they are greedy, and in part because they are social rejects or socialites who cannot obtain normal gains the real world...which is more of a psyche issue leading into the next and obvious part of the subject..

While this is an interesting discussion that delves further into the dark side of the human psyche within use of the internet/online gaming, I find it ironic that it's on the forums of a game where the environment is more hostile to these types of people than most others.

Fortunately, it's been fairly obvious so far that TRION already has a game for these type of people, and they weren't interesting in making another.



MMO's shouldn't be social networking sites, but they have become them or at least an alternatie to them.

Social networking sites are a haven for a narcissistic generation, and MMO developers are all too happy to use that to their advantage.

see i brought this up mainly because it happened so much back in my days of runescape and the sex appeal of some of the characters on this game is very high especially in HD
lol