Thread: Girl Gamers

Originally Posted by Talya

It seemed when I first started playing lotro I was the only female playing. I'm sure I wasn't the only one that felt that way :P LoTROL is my first game and I have been playing since closed beta and still having a blast! Im a mom of 3 BEAUTIFUL girls and live in Tennessee. Yeah, I'm a country girl accent and all. Born and raised in the south It seems the population of girl gamers are growing too and that is SO awesome. I want to hear others stories of how they came to play lotro, what class you are and how you are enjoying it or not. I enjoy meeting new peeps and hearing their stories Well that's it for now. CHEERS!! ~Talya

hmm, i never gave it much thought. I was just here to play and experience Middle Earth. I didn't/don't really give a thought to who/what the other keyboardists are around me.

Originally Posted by Jerkan

Would you like to check under my kilt to make sure?

Bwahahaha

er no thanks I'll take yer word for it!

There really is no way of telling who is behind each alt ... however, I can tell you that there are many more of us than most people even realize, and the numbers keep growing.

And yes, a good number of female alts out there ... and not played by actual females lol

If you find a female alt asking for stuff or being a bit too "girlie" ... you can bet that whoever is behind it is either a male or a child



www.theguardiansofhonor.com

Originally Posted by Minina62

If you find a female alt asking for stuff or being a bit too "girlie" ... you can bet that whoever is behind it is either a male or a child
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Or drunk.



(happy, you friggen 10-character limit?!)

Originally Posted by Tarriel

Bwahahaha

er no thanks I'll take yer word for it!

Well that is a shame, I had taken some pictures just incase you said yes, oh well, I'll just send them to Figgy.

Originally Posted by Jerkan

Well that is a shame, I had taken some pictures just incase you said yes, oh well, I'll just send them to Figgy.

Can you laminate them please?

Originally Posted by Jerkan

Well that is a shame, I had taken some pictures just incase you said yes, oh well, I'll just send them to Figgy.

Print em on fabric and i'll use it on my banner of terror

[QUOTE=Minina62;1299120]There really is no way of telling who is behind each alt ... however, I can tell you that there are many more of us than most people even realize, and the numbers keep growing.

And yes, a good number of female alts out there ... and not played by actual females lol

If you find a female alt asking for stuff or being a bit too "girlie" ... you can bet that whoever is behind it is either a male or a childQUOTE]

Maybe, or a girl that just knows how to play the system to her advantage.

I know I gave all my spare quest item stuff to a female warg on Arkenstone back in the day, lol. {prob enough to do first 2 tiers}

Miss you Llathala!

Wow, I finally found the thread Elstopo....why yal joking me about my Big Wood fetish!? LOL I got a new purse today that I will be bringing out to the moors in a bit, good luck on finding any wood now muwhahahahahah!

Oh and yes Cortes is very much a real Scot

Button one day I WILL get that hat off of your head...I know i'm warg and all but that hat makes me feel like a kitty on a rampage with its pretty colors and it seems to bob around the moors so quickly and I can't help but to follow it!!!!!

I'll get a more recent pic of myself up here shortly, everyone is so cute- but I know we are are ruthless killers so I will try to find one that shows the REAL us!

*rolls in the dirt* See yal soon!

Originally Posted by Ravenzmoon

Button one day I WILL get that hat off of your head...I know i'm warg and all but that hat makes me feel like a kitty on a rampage with its pretty colors and it seems to bob around the moors so quickly and I can't help but to follow it!!!!!

I read somewhere Turbine was going to add a feature that allows us to show other gear even though we may be wearing somthing completely different. So the big question is, will Button trade in his minstrel hat for somthing better? Answer: No effing way! My hat is a part of me. I think everyone's grown way to accustomed to it that nobody would recognize me without it... plus.... apparently the wargs think it's hot....bonus.

P.S. still not a girl... but I get hit on all the time... and it amuses me to no end

Ive never noticed ur hat. Maybe cause your soo short!

Wish i had a kick skill

How can you miss the Banana hat?!

Originally Posted by packrat_teddy

I read somewhere Turbine was going to add a feature that allows us to show other gear even though we may be wearing somthing completely different. So the big question is, will Button trade in his minstrel hat for somthing better? Answer: No effing way! My hat is a part of me. I think everyone's grown way to accustomed to it that nobody would recognize me without it... plus.... apparently the wargs think it's hot....bonus.

P.S. still not a girl... but I get hit on all the time... and it amuses me to no end

I love that hat! I'd totally wear it if I had one.

Might have something to do with playing on very low texture quality {big fights cripple my machine}

Now im running on medium. So should be able to spot it.

P.S. still not a girl... but I get hit on all the time... and it amuses me to no end[/QUOTE]

I hit on you all the time Button ... with my mace that is

</hit on Button>

I'm coming in late to this thread, but w/e, the game's login servers are down, so time to party with the MMO forum.

Minstrel here! /handstand
and I started a loremaster. Fun times.
I've always done healer or caster roles, back from muds, AO, wow, etc.

My guess is that females are quieter about their presence on games, but since LotRO has instant voice chat, there's no hiding it. Although I guess I could be mistaken for a 10 year old boy

I'd love to find out recent numbers of females who play here. The last numbers from Nick Yee's study indicated something like 16% female population on EverQuest, and slightly higher for WoW.

/raises hand

Mother of three here. I've been draggin my husband from game to game since 2001 when I discovered Lineage (the original 2d grindfest). It's our quiet time after the kids are in bed; you know, the family that plays together stays together.

I usually don't make a point of telling ppl my gender. I'm a gamer and that's all that matters.

I am female,married and proud mother of an adorable 7 week old boy.

I usually choose female avatars simply because it's easier to RP as a female when you are one, but I have RP'ed as a male and that was a fun challenge. One of the coolest things I've seen in a game was a RL female RP'ing as a gay male. It explained 'his' very feminine dispostion.

I know several ppl who seem to be Rping gay males as well.....lol!

Perhaps they just need to shake those freep tendancies whilst on a creep.

Real female here! I've been playing since the early EQ days, when my husband showed me how to make a half elf paladin. I then outlevelled him, and we had to buy a new computer so both of us could play at the same time!

Since then, we've played a lot of different games, most notably DAoC, WoW, Lineage2, Vanguard. We weren't really gaming when we stumbled upon LOTRO - my brother plays, and he gave me the idea to try it out. I got hooked, so did the husband.

Level 40 and counting!

I've always played a girl in Lotro (I am one IRL) but I rolled a dwarf minstrel recently and have had a blast. Well guys sure tell a lot of dirty jokes when they don't think any girls are in the group.

I'd love to say it's refeshing to not be hit on so often but honestly, the number of female avatars who bat their eyes at my dwarf (probably because he's a minstrel) has grown from amusing to alarming!

Also people are sometimes generally ruder I've noticed, and because he has a funny name (Teapot) he gets picked on a lot. Often it's girls who do the mocking.

Anyways I've never played from the other side before and it's been interesting and for the most part quite fun. I definitely think of him as male rather than as beared female and I'm quite affectionate towards him compared to my other toons who I don't feel that much for outside of my original 50.

Can't believe i'm doing this....if even ONE person says Elvira I will kill you all ok? KK tnx

Originally Posted by Ravenzmoon

Can't believe i'm doing this....if even ONE person says Elvira I will kill you all ok? KK tnx

Looking good!

Beautiful pictures ladies, keep em coming. My kinship has a very even measure of male and female members. We have a good time together!!!

And yet another female here! This is my first MMORPG, though I have played online multi-player games before. Just nothing on this scale. My older brothers both play EQ2, and had been trying forever to get me to try it... it just never happened. Some friends of mine from another game (and I will not mention it's name) talked me into giving this a shot. I love it! I've met a few immature players, but for the most part, everyone's been really cool and helpful. I'm 31 and the mother of 2 children, one girl (10) and one boy (3). I play quite a bit because I'm a stay at home mom, and there are a few names in this thread that I recognize.
My main is a 50 Guardian named Aryllia, who is also a GM Explorer. My main alt is Lialla, a lvl 49 (almost 50) Minstrel, who is not quite a GM scholar. I have a lvl 26 captain, Deeliah, who is a GM Jeweler, and I will be working on getting her to 50 next. I also have a lvl 9 lore master, Arylith, and I have no idea what her craft will be yet. I've never played a creep, though I've given it some thought, and I've not really spent any time in the 'Moors, since a guardian is practically useless there. Really enjoy the game, and I'm totally hooked. I'll post a picture later, maybe, but trust me, you're not missing out on much.
Thanks for starting the thread Talya!

*cough*

To lots its obvious that I'm a female gamer but to the others.. well Ill post here too!


I started gaming actually in late 2000 when I started playing AC1. My ex got me playing and never looked back. Glad I didnt either, I totally fell in love with gaming. LoTRo is only my second MMO, but I will be around for a while to come and hopefully try a few more as they come out I have a 4 year old daughter and I'm currently in Tenn. (yea Southern Girls are awesome gamers)

Originally Posted by Angelina_Rayne

*cough*

To lots its obvious that I'm a female gamer but to the others.. well Ill post here too!


I started gaming actually in late 2000 when I started playing AC1. My ex got me playing and never looked back. Glad I didnt either, I totally fell in love with gaming. LoTRo is only my second MMO, but I will be around for a while to come and hopefully try a few more as they come out I have a 4 year old daughter and I'm currently in Tenn. (yea Southern Girls are awesome gamers)

OMG!! My ex got me to play; I have a 4 year old; AND I'm in Tennessee!!! WOW! small world southern girls are hawt!

Originally Posted by Talya

It seemed when I first started playing lotro I was the only female playing. I'm sure I wasn't the only one that felt that way :P LoTROL is my first game and I have been playing since closed beta and still having a blast! Im a mom of 3 BEAUTIFUL girls and live in Tennessee. Yeah, I'm a country girl accent and all. Born and raised in the south It seems the population of girl gamers are growing too and that is SO awesome. I want to hear others stories of how they came to play lotro, what class you are and how you are enjoying it or not. I enjoy meeting new peeps and hearing their stories Well that's it for now. CHEERS!! ~Talya

I was born and raised in Kentucky, and now live in Oklahoma.... talk about accents! And... I'm a female player and have gamed since 1999. I have often felt like the only female when I've played but am finding there are more and more of us. It's a nice thing, and I think we add a certain perspective to gaming.

... and yes, I've been known to RP male and female characters! I find often that people have no idea what gender I am in RL and frankly that's okay... we're playing a game after all!

I started LOTRO because I like Tolkein's writings and was accepted into the closed beta! My main character is a male hobbit burglar, and he's a real hoot to play... a litle clumsy and often a little down on his luck, but so much fun... I'm also enjoying a female Champion of Rohan as well.

Glad to be here and glad to see all these posts.

Originally Posted by AngryWeaponX

I know several ppl who seem to be Rping gay males as well.....lol!

Perhaps they just need to shake those freep tendancies whilst on a creep.

Sorry Sokar I will stop drooling on you... maybe.

Originally Posted by chicien

Sorry Sokar I will stop drooling on you... maybe.

And here I thought i had been running through too many swamp marshes...

Another girl, 36. This is my first MMORPG. Played a lot of D&D in the 80s/90s and a lot of things like Baldur's Gate, Planescape Torment, Arcanum, etc. It's hard to adjust to not being able to pause after each attack!

A friend who has been on here since the beta wanted to start playing with other people but not with strangers, so he bribed me and my boyfriend (major Tolkien fan, also no MMORPG exp) by buying us the software.

My brother has been in WOW since it started (Crazy Crew, I think) and he agreed that LOTRO would be an easier place for me to start. Not necessarily a maturity thing but at least a higher level of new people and thus more tolerance for not having a clue what you're doing. And just fewer people, so less overwhelming.

We haven't tried joining up with other people yet, so I have no idea about gender-related treatment. I've been on a comicbook message board for years, however, so I know how things can go.

Is vegas_librarian really a librarian? If so, me too!

A Girl Game Thread!
I had wondered if such a thing existed here.

I am brand new to LOTRO and OL gaming generally. I have been a gamer since about 2000 or thereabouts when I ended up playing through the Baldur's Gate series, Planescape Torment, and a number of other single player RPGs.
I still play those old games too, they were wonderful.

Because I'm a Tolkien fan, and I also moderate the Gaming News section an RPG site (Game Banshee), I became aware of Turbine's plans for LOTRO not long after they were announced, and since then I followed any news very closely. Once the game went live, I began to hope and wish that I'd finally be able to replace my old P3.. that happened just a couple of weeks ago, so I rushed out to buy both "LOTRO" and "The Witcher."
I've spent much more time playing the former, simply because of the novelty of being able to play with friends across the continent, and it has been a lot of fun so far, I'm very pleased I decided to overcome my hesitation toward online games!

I currently have a level 13 elven Loremaster, great fun!

Where gender is concerned, I have to say I have encountered quite a lot of women who game, particularly at Game Banshee, which, traditionally, also has a somewhat more mature member base. I've been there since 2001, and I've never experienced any kind of gender bias, or anything like that. Of course, I would imagine that actually playing online games is a different matter entirely.
Thus far, though, I've found the players I've met in LOTRO to be very nice and helpful.

So, *waves hello*

Every woman needs to have one of these Tshirts. This is me and my fav. one!!!

Originally Posted by Talya

Every woman needs to have one of these Tshirts. This is me and my fav. one!!!

Yes....the shirt....

Whered Everyone go?

girl gamers are a lie! those feminen voices you hear on the raid chat are just little elven boys!

Originally Posted by Ravenzmoon

Whered Everyone go?

Isnt 8 pages enough?

Originally Posted by AngryWeaponX

Isnt 8 pages enough?

Ummmm...this is a thread for girls, and we like to talk.