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amapola76
3 years agoSeasoned Vanguard
*I have zero interest in a TS5 MMO, and will absolutely not be purchasing it, ever, if that's what it turns out to be.
*I do play other MMOs.
*I am a cis woman in real life, and most of my alts are also women. But I have a few alts that are male, because there's a particular story I want to tell.
*As it happens, I haven't ended up playing the male alts very much, for various reasons, but I don't think there's anything inherently wrong or dishonest with having alts of whatever gender you choose, and I would never judge anyone else for doing so. Games are for enjoyment, and people should play how they want to play. As others have said, you can be a robot, a giant panda, a talking cat, or any number of other things in various games. It's all make believe, that's the whole point.
*I do not generally RP in MMOs, aside from having my own head canon/backstory for most of my alts.
*I never interact romantically with other players in those MMOs, regardless of whether they are strangers or I know them IRL. That's outside the agreed parameters of my relationship, and not something that interests me, anyway.
*If other people choose to interact romantically with strangers online, the burden is on them, if they are an adult, to take stringent precautions to insure that they are only interacting with other adults, and if they can't be sure, just don't do it. The burden is also on them to make sure that if any other factor is a deal breaker for them personally, to ask.
*To bring it back to my first point, I have been harassed as a female player in every MMO I've ever played over the last couple of decades, though to be fair, it has varied a lot from game to game (WoW was always terrible, pervasive, and graphic/explicit; in ESO it has been extremely rare, but it does happen.) It's very much unwanted and a big part of why I don't want to have it anywhere near my Sims experience. I also haven't seen anyone mention this yet, but it is one reason that some women I know choose to play as male characters, to avoid that harassment.
*I do play other MMOs.
*I am a cis woman in real life, and most of my alts are also women. But I have a few alts that are male, because there's a particular story I want to tell.
*As it happens, I haven't ended up playing the male alts very much, for various reasons, but I don't think there's anything inherently wrong or dishonest with having alts of whatever gender you choose, and I would never judge anyone else for doing so. Games are for enjoyment, and people should play how they want to play. As others have said, you can be a robot, a giant panda, a talking cat, or any number of other things in various games. It's all make believe, that's the whole point.
*I do not generally RP in MMOs, aside from having my own head canon/backstory for most of my alts.
*I never interact romantically with other players in those MMOs, regardless of whether they are strangers or I know them IRL. That's outside the agreed parameters of my relationship, and not something that interests me, anyway.
*If other people choose to interact romantically with strangers online, the burden is on them, if they are an adult, to take stringent precautions to insure that they are only interacting with other adults, and if they can't be sure, just don't do it. The burden is also on them to make sure that if any other factor is a deal breaker for them personally, to ask.
*To bring it back to my first point, I have been harassed as a female player in every MMO I've ever played over the last couple of decades, though to be fair, it has varied a lot from game to game (WoW was always terrible, pervasive, and graphic/explicit; in ESO it has been extremely rare, but it does happen.) It's very much unwanted and a big part of why I don't want to have it anywhere near my Sims experience. I also haven't seen anyone mention this yet, but it is one reason that some women I know choose to play as male characters, to avoid that harassment.
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