This shouldn’t be news to any regular MMORPG player. It certainly isn’t for me. I’ve seen this happen since the early days of Ultima Online. Yet, even though we players know that the female avatar we interact with on the screen has a good chance of having a pasty male user controlling it, we still don’t assume as much.
Hell, I know guys that only play as girls in MMORPG’s. The slight-to-infinite increase in monetary gains, combined with the ease of getting into groups makes it a no-brainer. I tried it a few times, but since I like to create characters that reflect my personality as much as possible, I just didn’t feel comfortable with ample hips and swinging bosom (or is that ample bosom and swinging hips? …no matter!). Although, I must admit, the female models in WoW look much better than the male ones.
Mission: find out which local lawyer plays as Oola:
A 36-year-old female attorney from Austin, Texas, is the real-life person behind the sexy and smart female Oola and the bruiser male Smotis in NCsoft’s “City of Heroes” but she said the differences between her avatars and herself didn’t go far beyond physical appearance.
“I was a bit disappointed that I didn’t branch out more. I think it was a lack of originality on my part,” said the lawyer, who asked that her name not be used.
