I play(ed) female characters because I can, I prefer how they look, I'm a 6'3 tank IRL and it's nice to be dainty and small even in a video-game :P
It's like very month this is a thing.
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in roughly 30-40 days played each i've never been "hit on" when on my belf priest and pally and again never been hit on in however long i've played on my panda female monk since mists launch. basically op your been a little silly and nieve to think majority of female characters you see in game are actually been played by females.
lol me it depends on the race, some male characters are putrid (night elf) some female characters are (dwarf, tauren, orc) so I play both gender depending on alts but my main was a female blood elf priest for the longuest time.
what you don't realise is, only people that feel treatened by their own sexual orientation would feel in danger by playing a female character. this is specially true for mens.
however I had a bunch of female friends with MALE toon and I believe their reason goes more along the lines of: I don't want people to think i'm feeble or weak so I hide behind a male toon and also avoid being flirted with.
I'm a woman and my main is a male Blood Elf, and he was formerly a male Troll. I just prefer the aesthetics of males on those two races, model-wise. I have a female Goblin, too. It often just boils down to the player's preference. Assuming somebody's sexuality by using the gender or race of their in-game character is stupid.
I like female blood elves. My pally is one
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Can't do it, made a female undead warlock at one point because I liked their animations more. Got to about lvl 25 and deleted her, it just felt weird to me.
The only game where i have ever played a male character was the secret world since the avatar was supposed to be me.
Otherwise the female ass argument fits perfectly !
I just play what ever looks better for the race, so the likes of Pandaren the only option is female as the males just look horrid and stretch most of the armour, but then got the likes or orcs, tauren and goblins the males look better. it's all just about how they look, you don't want to be sitting looking at the back of something that looks horrid to you while you play.
the female animations look better than the male ones.
When I make a toon I take into account animations and what end game gear looks like which has me at 4 female toons and 7 males.
Well for me, only aceptable moves as a male comes from undead, so most my chars are males ud's but got as well be female pally cus tauren looks funny as a pally for me and be male to gay for me, nothing to do with asses or bein male irl, i just need to like the way my toon attacks, moves,runs etc
There are a lot of low-IQ people out there who assume that if someone plays a character of another gender its for perverted/deviant reasons. They never consider personal/stylistic differences.
I'm a guy, and half my toons are female. I made my belf pally female cause I didn't really like how male belfs looked, my warlock is a belf female cause I prefer how cloth looks on female toons rather than male and my monk is a female pandaren cause IMO the males were too bulky for the character I imagined.
In WoW you are playing a character, not necessarily yourself. Your toon doesn't have to approximate your real-life self.
I've heard the same reasoning countless times and it always makes me chuckle. The times I actually look at my character are few and far between because I'm focusing on everything going on around me.
That said, I'm a guy and I play mainly female characters because I prefer their animations and how armor looks on them in general. Staring at asses has nothing to do with it.
I have 10 characters and one of them is female...bascially because I only play Orc when available for the class and I was tired of making male Orcs. Then again Female Orcs aren't as sought after, like say a female blood elf.
guys play female toons because they are secretly dragqueen!