What is it with this game and the creepiness towards female characters?

IIThe QuestionII · Jul 2, 2015

A friend has this issue a lot(well, the same as any girl char i guess), once this guy kept being all creepy while we were hanging out at her place, so she flirted back, then when the guy asked for mic and she put me on it and i was all like (with the huskiest voice i could make) "Hey man you seem nice, can i add you so we can group more often!" ...and then the guy simply left...was it something i said?

Circe · Jul 2, 2015

Slade Wilson said: ↑

“First of all - this:

Second - as someone else already roughly remembered the "Did I do something wrong"-thread - you are too much into character. I personally do not think the majority of players expects a little girl as the player behind a little girl character, so the flirting is actually not much creepier than the idea of people to hook up with someone in video game is in general. By statistics, those people risk to hit on a 40-50 year old truck driver named Bernard every time they start this BS.

Third - roughly a third of my toons are females, not counting the ones made to squat names as those are all female (I just click fast through the character generation screen in those cases, and female is the standard choice). I have yet to expect any of the stuff you describe, no text at all, just a blowkiss or flirt-emote on occassion. Granted - I have voice speak turned off as I can't stand the not fully developed voices of pesky teenagers in general and have long ignore lists on my mains, but the toons I speak of here are secondary to tertiary toons and the ignore function does still not work account wide nor can we export and import our ignore lists yet. The normal /tells I receive go "um, what's that style?" and the pesky ones go "can you give me an aura???". I answer the second kind with addignore and a response that indirectly asks the offender to die quickly.

Either people have found a way to determine the ingame cash value of the account behind a character to help them decide between begging and flirting or for some reason we are on completely different ends of experiencing this game. Or maybe it's time zone related and the creeps are gone when it's prime time for gaming in Australia.... yeah, that's it: Australia is full of cool people, so I just have to deal with that beggars from NZ when I'm online

Apart from that, it's - as pointed out by many - not a DCUO related problem. But look on the bright side of it: people moronic and desperate enough to try hooking up in a video game will in majority never score anyway and thus be unable to spread their genes - so mankind will get rid of those losers in the gene pool and thus may have an opportunity to develop further.... so from some future point of view, these people are not even part of mankind anymore ”

Um lol they were checking that little girl character out and making comments like "nice ***". Really bizarre.

ThatsFatal · Jul 2, 2015

Quantom Boy said: ↑

“I hate simp guys in dcuo so much, in fact not even in dcuo but in general. I'm in a league with 3 women (like in theirs 30s-40s) and the a lot of guys just bend over backwards for them in the league. And especially on of the girls has a field day exploiting the simps, making them do what she wants. If I need a feat, I get ignored but if she needs the feat like 10 people are ready to help. I'll be lying if said I'm not hating just a little bit.”

Seems to me that you need new league. Everyone in my league just jumps at the opportunity to help anyone and everyone. I've honestly never played with a better group of people in my life.

Grumpy · Jul 2, 2015

Pictures or it didn't happen.

Slade Wilson · Jul 2, 2015

Circe said: ↑

“Um lol they were checking that little girl character out and making comments like "nice ***". Really bizarre.”

As I tried to explain to you - they will prolly not expect a little girl playing that little girl character. It's just bizarre if you expect that kind of comment to be directed at a little girl. You are not your toon. Most people in the game do not look a bit like their toon. The toon is just an extension of their ego that - the extension, not the ego - is displayed in the game (the ego is displayed in the chat ).

The day the players in front of the screen turn into little girls for choosing the little girl style as their avatar - that day will be bizarre

DCUO ENTHUSIAST · Jul 2, 2015

Circe said: ↑

“This has to be the worst game when it comes to creepy guys getting all over female characters. I can't even log in without being bombarded by guys. Some guy in the Hall of Doom was following me around the other day, another was asking me to come back to him where he was standing (and he was staring at me the whole time I was there and sending me "messages").

It doesn't stop there, though of course. The worst is I made a little girl plant character (supposed to be Poison Ivy's protegee) and the nasty messages I've received is astounding. I mean flirting with an adult character is one thing (most of my characters) but a little girl character? Really? And I think you know what I mean by flirting, not cute lovey dovey.

Why can't a person make a female character without being treated like an equal? This is pretty horrible, and I'm betting it has turned away players too.”

First, let me begin by saying...."who cares...."

Secondly...and most importantly....who cares?

And third...you're a fictional character in a make believe world, so really.....WHO CARES????

smh

Scar-Red Nova · Jul 2, 2015

This is why you don't stand in Doom.

Raijin1999 · Jul 2, 2015

I think more than half of my roster are female toons. Or were, at one point. I only remember one instance where a creepy league leader started begging me to join. I agreed, but only if my alt could get in too. Once he found out the alt was a dude, it was off, and I chuckled knowing full well it would happen that way.

The wife, who hasnt played in ages, was once surrounded by the entire raid group while they spammed suggestive emotes.

Theres also the spew in shout chat by the regular children wanting to use DCUO as their personal yahoo chat.

Slade Wilson · Jul 2, 2015

Raijin1999 said: ↑

“I think more than half of my roster are female toons. Or were, at one point. I only remember one instance where a creepy league leader started begging me to join. I agreed, but only if my alt could get in too. Once he found out the alt was a dude, it was off, and I chuckled knowing full well it would happen that way.

The wife, who hasnt played in ages, was once surrounded by the entire raid group while they spammed suggestive emotes.

Theres also the spew in shout chat by the regular children wanting to use DCUO as their personal yahoo chat.”

For the personal yahoo chat children, I suggest the most famous cure of "a bullet to the head"

About your sig: you got some 1920x1080 cockpit files for X-Wing Alliance from anywhere which are really in sync? got some hi res mods but they sorta don't work correctly. Since SWG is gone, X-Wing Alliance is the "latest" official Star Wars space shooter - and it's from 1999. What the heck has happened to video games.....

Miggly · Jul 2, 2015

This is the reason I don't have any female toons.

Ghostof91 · Jul 2, 2015

TechWarrior0329 said: ↑

“Sadly this is very true. I played City of Heroes/Villains for almost 7 years before coming here after that game shut down for good. I had over 50 alts and about half were male half female. I won't go into a huge amount of detail here but I had one character that was a Taxibot (a league in that game that provided free teleport to and from missions to help other player.. yes in COH we could teleport as a form of movement and could also teleport team mates).

I had just joined the league (actually we referred to them as Super Groups) and showed up in one of the zones that required a lot of teleport to survive if you were a low level character to put in a few hours providing rides to and from mission locations. After a few minutes I became aware that I had like 9 or 10 players crowded around my character. When I asked my league mate what was going on I was informed "they are all probably teen agers and are staring at you". Now to clarify I had not created a costume I considered especially sexy .. while on duty we actually had a color scheme to follow and needed to wear the League crest on our uniform but apparently those kids did. After my shift ended I went back to the character creator COH had and changed my look completely going for even less sexy. LOL

Story number two always sort of makes me cringe a little. I was running around soling and got an invite to join another guy doing the same mission.. Hey two heroes is better than one right? So I accepted and we entered the tunnel and started beating up mobs. Then it started... This guy was talking about how he wished we could see what our characters looked like naked and a whole line of other BS I don't even want to go into here. Now at some point (VERY EARLY ON) in this conversation I tried to explain to this creep that I was a GUY playing a female character.. strangely that didn't seem to make any difference as he continued to hit on my TOON. Finally I just told him DUDE I'm here to PLAY a game not have cyber." I quit the team, completed my mission solo and logged off in disgust. Now that was bad enough but as it turned out this sleazy pervert has put my character on his friends list and almost every time I logged on I immediately got a PM from him I finally juts deleted that character completely.

This next one is just sort of funny. On COH we didn't have the TRADE menu like we do here so it was possible to simply walk up to another player and give them stuff by clicking on them. I was playing one of my female alts and a guy arrived in the same area I was in. Never said hello, never sent a PM but out of no where I suddenly got a 1 million dollar gift. I finished what I had to do in that spot, said thanks and moved on. Not sure exactly what he expected in return for his money but THANKS was all he was getting from me. LOL Now in and of itself that isn't bad at all but you know what.. in 7 years of game play I never had a GUY walk up to a single one of my male toons and just hand over cash.. any cash much less a huge amount like that. My theory is that was his idea of a pick up line.

I've been pretty lucky here no horror stories to report in over three years of game time BUT you still see the usual stuff associate with any game that has a fairly large teen male population. Not sure if he's still there or not but for a long time there was a guy in Metropolis that was constantly asking every female too he saw if they were a real woman and if so were they looking for a boyfriend. I saw another guy on LFG, in SHOUT and on the trade channels advertising he was a new toon and looking for a wife... because the game instructions YOU got said you cant play UNLESS your married?

Its the same everywhere .. I actually think it may be better here than it was on COH because the character creator that had allowed you to alter body size and shape. The running joke was in most cases you could tell if a female toon was being controlled by a guy .. the CHEST area would be as large as it could possible be and they be wearing the most revealing outfits available. LOL not that I was trying to fool ANYONE but after some one told me that my female toons got much slimmer above the waist. I knew females that played COH and knew the sort of crap they went through in game dealing with some guys.. and lets be honest. Most of it is the teenagers but there are 20 and 30 year old guys out there that still THINK they are 14 when they hit the internet so not all of it is being done by kids just hitting puberty.”

Talk ab

TechWarrior0329 said: ↑

“Oh just figured I'd add this one. COH was almost famous for Role Play and there were areas where that role play was decidedly exotic and sexual in nature. At one point one of the leaders of the League I ran there formed an alliance between our league and another.... Nothing out of the ordinary league did that all the time to increase the number of players available for teams. But this entire league was into erotic role play. Shorty after the alliance I visited there base and the bases of all the other league they were allies with since we now were technically those league allies as well. Every single base was set up like a disco lounge and included smaller "private rooms" with just a couple pieces of furniture and a bed. [just to clarify on COH you built a base room by room and had a LOT more furniture options than we have here]. Anyway in short.. all those bases were pretty much set up for Erotic role play.

Well NOT MINE. LOL I had a base designed to help my league complete missions. Now after about 2 days I got tired of dealing with the constant stream of sexting coming over the alliance chat and turned it off completely.... I don't care what you do in PM but I don't need to have it flashing across my chat box while I'm on a team and trying to see what the team leader JUST typed in about strategy for the next room we have to enter. Then one day while I was in base building some of enhancers (the COH version of a MOD) I had 3 or 4 visitors from a couple of the allied league including one from the MAIN league. the NEXT day we'd been kicked.. LOL probably because my base didn't resemble a sleazy lounge for Sexting. You know.. I never missed those people one bit. Oh and the goof that accepted them as allies was demoted for a while until I explained WHAT to look for in an ALLY and it wasn't ... "They look so sexy and cool"”

Talk about entertainment for the day thanks.

GalaxySniper · Jul 2, 2015

Yea cause when my male toon lose in PvP they want to tea bag me. #Grownmanproblems

the solowing · Jul 2, 2015

Slade Wilson said: ↑

“MMO without any kind of chat. Solved, 100% save for children - except for the ingame violence maybe ”

a wild Fox News appeared!

mightybugthe1st · Jul 2, 2015

Anyone turned on by a video game or anime/comic book characters needs serious professional help. There are a lot of people in this community who need professional help. /thread.

Slade Wilson · Jul 2, 2015

mightybugthe1st said: ↑

“....There are a lot of people in this community world who need professional help. /thread....”

Fixed the second part, can't agree on the first part though as that way you'd practically sent a large part of cosplayers to see professional help. I don't cosplay, but I think Comic Con would be much much lamer without them.

Veritech · Jul 2, 2015

Circe,

I don't often agree with you but I'll side with you on this one.

I have 20 alts, only three are female. They are the only ones that get random creepy tells you describe.

Does no one find my Ace Lieutenant styled mental goon alt sexy?

the solowing · Jul 2, 2015

="mightybugthe1st, post: 3325411, member: 342865"]Anyone turned on by a video game or anime/comic book characters needs serious professional help. There are a lot of people in this community who need professional help. /thread.

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have you ever heard of sexualizing of characters. have you ever heard the term sex sells. Look at starfire and ladydeath cheetah in JLU, black canary hell the entire DOA series

dibrieEUps · Jul 2, 2015

iTzKCO said: ↑

“This is every game. Especially in MMOs where there's detailed character creation.”

Soooooo cross play.........When you gonna drop huh????
Support faction change token. Desperately want.

i dunno man this need to come asap 1+

#goaheadgrammerplice

MrB · Jul 2, 2015

How is it I've been hit on only once?

I'M UGLY

*runs off crying*

9001BPM · Jul 2, 2015

What am I doing wrong? xD This happens to me but not nearly as often or with as much intensity as being described here. Are my characters not pretty enough?! xD

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