Maple - Why is it so Male-Dominated?

^These. If any girls here ever played Audition in NA or EU, there were significantly more girls than guys. @Tamai to confirm

 

I actually attempted to joined one on EMS Kradia while playing a girl character :^^^)
Part of the sign-up was providing a timestamped selfie to prove you were a girl
Don't think they lasted more then a couple months, though

 

It was a joke, I'm sorry if you don't like jokes. I'm not a bad kinda guy

 

A picture to sum up g.i.r.l.s

 

THIS IS REAL. TOO REAL. I'm like flabbergasted now on this server because I'm so used to everyone being a girl. I automatically assume FEMALE until proven otherwise.

 

i sexually identify as an attack helicopter

also, people can pretend to be a girl online because they can't irl.

dude what
there are people like that of both genders

 

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I've seen this kind discussion in every single game I've played...
So, let me enlight you with my factual knowledge on the subject.

The main reason that comes out when asking why guys play girl characters in mmorpg is simply... Because they feel it's nicer to look at.
It makes sense, if you are going to stare at your character for hundreds of hours, you must at least like how he/she looks.
That's the most of them. They don't pretend to be girls, they just do it because of visual preferences.

The other kind that people often mention are the one that do it to get free stuff and attention. They can usually be spotted trying too hard to "sounds like a girl"
The most obvious one is the excessive use of smiley and hearts and trying too hard to sound cute and girly. When in reality, there are very few real girls that act like that.
But that's a minority compared to the previous one.

Another one worth mentioning are transgenders. To be REALLY simple, it's when people wish to be, or consider themself as the opposite gender.
Playing as the opposite gender would give them an easy way to be treated the way they wish to, since it might be quite difficult to do so in real life. (Either as a male or female)

After that comes the rest, with very different reasons for each individual. It would take too long to mention everything.
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BUT.
That's mostly common knowledge to everyone now. There is actually something else that almost never pops out in those converstations.

It's that the same reasons I mentioned above applies to girls as well.
There are just as many girls playing male characters than boys playing female characters, yet, nobody ever mentions it. Now, THAT'S more interesting already.
They also have other reasons to play male characters beside the visual preference.

Since most games are "male dominated", beeing seen as a girl can be extremely annoying in many ways.
The vast majority of them just want to play the game, beeing treated the same as everyone and nothing else.
Have you ever seen a girl going in a voice chat in a game like call of duty or league of legends? (Or any online game really)
It's usually goes: Someone says something sexist to the girl, then someone goes full white knight toward the girl and crap ensues.

The easy fix to games without voice chat, is to just play a male character. NOBODY will ever question that you are man. Nobody.
It's kind of funny how it's the complete opposite.

Also, yaoi.



TL;DR people thinks there are more men in games because:

1) Girls play male characters as well.
2) Most girls never mention their gender or lie to be treated the same.
3) People automatically assume that everyone is a man until proven female.
4) According to the rule of the internet number 16: There are NO girls on the internet.

When in reality, there must still be more men in mmorpg, but not by that big of a difference that people think.


That's about everything I guess. People just play and act like they prefer to. Most of time, it's not more complicated than that.

 

ALL games are male dominated, nothing new

 

Yep. I don't deny that at all. I'm talking about likelihood though. From my experience, I run into those issues less often with girls. It could just be because I don't meet enough of them to find the ones that are rude/offensive/lacking tact. This applies in real life as well. It might have to do with how men and women are socialized.

I know I shouldn't make huge generalizations based on my experience. Maybe I should compile a list, collect the data, and let you know what I find... but that's too much work. Off the top of my head I can name 5 IGNs belonging to male characters that I had these problems with (mostly involving use of the n-word... i.e. lack of tact/offensive). I can only think of one female character online that I had any issue with.


tldr; Not all guys are rude, not all girls are sweet... yes, duh. That doesn't change my desire to want to play w/ other girls.

 

As a completely straight man-- okay, maybe I like my 2d lolis a little too much-- who identifies as a man, I make my character cute and frilly and act as girly as I can online because there's no way to express it in real life. If I did so they'd lock me up and you'd see me on the evening news. It'd be the "diversity" and "tolerance" people doing the persecution. They're no help.

In real life, I am tall, heavily built, and have thick eye brows, a loud and deep voice, and am usually employed in the male dominated professions of software and management. That doesn't reflect the insecurity I feel on the inside. I used to play sports in high school. It's just more relaxing to name my character something like "loli imouto," and then hit cute slimes with vibrant flashes of light for imaginary currency.

Anyways if people laugh at me irl, I'd physically attack them so that doesn't help me out either.

 

lol I remember this guild , we made a MCPVikings for the lulz

 

Are there really more male maple players than females? o - o always had thought the ratio is more or less 50-50

 

you should add an option that contradicts your opinion too, cus your opinion is all you have built this on...

 

jendir knot tha metter off gaiming noobs EVERYWON KAN PLEY "FREA FOUR OLL!"

 

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