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Originally Posted by STRIGON-1
(Post 527302)
Correct me if I'm wrong but, are you are blaming the con artist for the stupidity of the victims? Anyone who gives away loot/gold to someone based purely on one's online avatar's gender doesn't deserve the loot they had.
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I'm angry for the community not really getting wise to it, besides the occasional "R U RLY A GIRL?!" which RAZGRIZ-2 seems really pissed about. If 'girl' scammers were as word of mouth as not giving out your game login then the problem would largly solve itself. How smart they are is irrelevant what right does that give the scammers to reap the rewards? You wouldn't take it in real life so why should they have to online? But I'm looking too deep into it now.
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Originally Posted by STRIGON-1
(Post 527302)
sounds like you just hate a great deal of online games or games that puts you in contact with other people.
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Geese so many people are not getting this so I'll clear this up now, I have no problem with people online I just have a problem with the annoying bullshit they do online because anonymous = LOLZ is that such an alien concept? As previously mentioned I guess I must have been too pissed off to make enough sence earlier in this topic.
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Originally Posted by DarkMageOzzie
(Post 527478)
The "female" beggers in MMOs are pretty sad... But some of the guys that fall for it are just pathetic. Alot of these guys, you don't even have to beg to get stuff from them. I had a female dark elf in EQ and in EQ you used to start in your undies. Some troll warrior that I ran into gave me a full set of leather armor and a better weapon. I remember being dumbfounded because I didn't ask for anything and he insisted it was no problem even though he was only like level 15 or so.
I always have at least a few female characters and while I try to roleplay sometimes, I never beg and if some guy starts hitting on me I send them a tell saying "I'm a dude, so stop".
Irony is that alot of people that told me they were girls IRL were using a male character to avoid being hit on.
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It's a truly weird phenomenon these desperate guy gamers, amazing what being anonymous does to the self esteem. Since so many are still trying to figure out why it annoys me so much, besides victims I know, I do have a little first hand experience but not the victim kind. I did a bet years ago now for laughs on final fantasy online to see who could get the most free stuff, but I dropped out for obvious reasons when the other guy married one of his victims, so needless to say I no longer speak to that guy but I can now spot scammers a mile off. I can understand how the real girls must feel on this too, I have a friend who's so disturbed by it she plays a Ragnarök private server and only plays baby girl characters so people get the message to back off. |
