One of the MAJOR mistakes that the current companies are making - and they
all did it - UO, EQ and AC - are that they are stuck in the old paradigms
of singleplayer games AND they are only looking that the CURRENT
demographics of 'the online gamer'.

Females represent a very small part of THAT demographic - simply because
there hasn't been THAT many games that appeal to US.

Being 40, and female - and an online gamer for years - I know just how rare
we are. We just simply aren't what these companies perceive to be the
'target' audience.

Call it the Laura Croft syndrome if you will.

The answer would be to give us some choice in what we look like, then only
the ones that would WANT to appear like that would. The 16yr old male that
plays a female - and thinks that look is his idea of heaven still could -
meanwhile - REAL women might - but then again, I think I'd pick something a
little less showgirlish.

>Sure, EQ graphics are very sexist. I'm a female, and knowing what I know
>about internet and RPG likely customers, I very well might have decided that
>the current graphics were the right job decision. Yep, as a female. Its
>still sexist, and I still hate the lack of graphics which would appeal to
>female player.
>
>>> Women, they look much more like Rangers than their female counterparts.
>>> It seems quite obvious the Dev Team is an all male affair.
>>>
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>>Heh. So many people say this but in fact the art director was a woman.
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