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scrawls

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27.2.06

hi, my name is liz, and i play warcraft.

yes, i am a girl. this is a relatively rare thing - certainly there are others, yes, i know - three, four, five other girls that play it, along with maybe a dozen or two other people i'm pretty sure are actually female that i've met ingame. and i've never asked any of them if they play it the same way that i do, which is decidedly different from the way that all the boys i know play, and this is something i think (one of not very many things) that Blizzard has done awfully well with, setting up this huge thing and allowing for different playstyles and keeping them all relatively fun and entertaining enough to keep us from buying other games, at least.

so. in the subcategory of Hardcore Gamers, into which i can no longer deny that i fall (though there are plenty of people more hardcore than me, and who would point at me and say, Casual!, it's really more of a continuum, and my gray-area-sliding-scale is really undeniably noncasual by now; wouldn't anyone who's logged fucking nonstop qualify? i would think so, at least, but) i'm not nearly as steeped in it all. and i won't get all technical and 1334. but there are parts of the game that i enjoy that i'm sure M, for instance, doesn't, (case in point: the valentine's day Red Dress quest reward, and also, i have a Prairie Dog - n, would you like a Prairie Dog? perhaps a cockroach? copperhead snake?), and he doesn't mind all the repetitive bullshit nearly as much as i do, and i'm way more of a carebear. And this is universal among the other people in the guild (which are, at the moment, all boys, but there's only around a dozen of us).

And there's an all girl guild starting on another server. To which i have been invited. and i'm wondering (assuming i can make any time to play there in the first place) if the entire vibe is going to be completely different. we'll all have totally new expectations of each other. it'll be interesting.

tags:warcraft, gender

scrawled @ 20:46