A study by Nottingham Trent University revealed that over half of the males who play MMOs play as female characters, and nearly three-quarters of females play as male characters. 70% of the females polled said they played as males, because they didn’t want guys to know that they had breasts and vagina’s and because they seemed to get treated better. Chief researcher Zaheer Hussain explains:
It seems that women gender swap for a variety of reasons, such as to avoid unsolicited male approaches on their female characters, or because they felt male characters were treated better by other males during the course of the game
By that logic, it seems male MMO players enjoy “male approaches on their female characters” and like to be treated bad, because 54% play as females. That, and looking at a hot pixelated night elf follow your commands for 8 hours straight is a lot easier on the eyes than watching a virtual man do the same.
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It’s not that I like to “cross-dress” just to cross dress , but after almost 8 years playing MMO’s with male characters , it gets kind of boring and another thing they forgot to mention is that Female characters are most of the times better textured, has more Appearance options to choose from than Male characters who have mostly only a limited set of appearance options and most of the time look kind of dorky and dull.
And to simply put it into a nutshell : Male players like females , so they play as one. Female players like Males , so they play as one.
