What women want

[Aredhel]

Just don't make it anything like Second Life. That's just....wrong!

[Pirotess]

Originally Posted by Mobius

if the guys over at eharmony were smart they'd add that to the game too lol (don't shoot me it's just an idea, I know there are alot of lonely individuals out there who are looking for someone who shares the same interest as them) I just think there are alot of improvements that could be added to todays gaming industry to make it more marketable for women.

Hah! And you thought there was an uproar over /pizza.

[katarina]

just like meegaan my first pre-online game was the sims.........the idea of being able to relate to the character i was creating really really appealed to me.....this was a way of creating a different world where i would be a part of it, and when my husband brought home everquest for himself it soon turned out that he had to go and buy a second copy because i couldn't get my hands off of it.........my first online game and i felt like i finally found a game that met most of the things that i like seeing in a game

for the first time i could really relate to the character and show to the others who i really was......i never acted any different in the game then i would in real life
at the time i was happy with it just the way it was.......but things change and of course now i want more

i still want to keep that relation to the character i'm playing.....character customatization is the most important part of the game for me......besides the actual game play which is always #1......i like to do a couple of things when creating a character, and for this reason i always have all the character slots filled up even if i don't play them they're there because i wanted to see what i could come up with
i always have a character that i would try to make look like me.......i would pick the closest body type, hair style, eyes, nose.......everything that would be the closest to what i look like in real life.......this character always turns out to become my main.....

my other characters would be a mix of what if i weren't human but an ogre or a troll type a girl........what would i look like then, and again i try to imagine if i somehow got transported into the game world how would my looks adapt to be close to those nonhuman looking races

in game itself the look is important to me........i like to have clothes that i would really wear if i were in the game, so i wouldn't like seeing anything with a huge cleavege (i wouldn't even have a cleavage in the game just to stay to the true real life image lol) i would just wanna have the character look and feel the same way i do in real life...........

ok......i'm realizing how narcistic this is all starting to sound lol.......guess i really love myself

the game play is #1 and is what will keep me playing the game........i like to explore and discover new things, it sounds like i'm calling for constant expansions but even in eq1 there were tones of zones i probably never been to, this is because i like to take things slow and i like to take my time, also as someone with a limited game time it's hard to catch up with all the expansions, and is probably the main reason why i lost interest in eq1, i just felt like i fell way too behind and going back now feels pointless

i like nice graphics and good scenery........i'm a visual person so the looks matter to me a lot too

i loved it how in eq1 nobody had the players leading by hand.......it was up to you to find out what to do, where to go, and how to do it.......this is what i really liked and i as many others had printed out tons of paper, lots of sticky notes and even drew out maps (oh the kelethin map......it was fun drawing out that one ), but the new games are all too dumbed down leaving nothing for the players to discover by themselves

the 21+ game could fix this but some people also get lazy and accustomed to easier things and the game developers are scared that the game might flop

what they need to realize is that those first computer game generations are still playing games and they've gotten older.......my first computer games were on commodore 64 sometime in the early 80's /sigh

the market for the games is predominantly targeted towards the little ones who need guidance and less frustration, we have grown out of this period long time ago.........i for one want a game that would treat me as an adult, someone who can reason, solve problems, and meet challenges without constant pop up windows that spell out everything that needs to be done step by step.........

that's all.........for now

[Vesavius]

Nice reading here, but the mad thing that comes out really is that what women want is the same as what most men want from MMORPGs. I guess theres no such thing as exclusive gender content.

Apart Taronn that is. The girls can keep that one

[Greymain]

Its telling how many fantasy novels are written by female authors. I suspect there are at least as many female readers as male. I think what MMORPG players of both sexes are looking for is a fantasy world not just a one dimensional beat-em-up.

[Taronn Anvilmarr]

the one-dimensional beat-em up's are just boring and everyone starts out playing them. Once they get past the swing + hit = excitement they everyone - male and female alike - are looking for a more detailed and immersive experience which mmo's provide. My girlfriend is just encountering that excitement. Im hoping she will graduate to mmo's eventually.