Comments on: What’s your mental image of other players?

By: Oriniwen

Oriniwen — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:44:41 +0000

We have a post on our forums, “the face behind the toon” and I always enjoy meeting a new recruit, first in game, then on vent, then usually a week or so later as a picture on the forums, once they’ve become comforatable with us.

As for not looking like you sound, I had a long time guildie finally browse the forum thread with all the pictures in it and post: “I thought Ori was a fat chick.”

I cried a little.

By: Track

Track — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:51:52 +0000

Back when I was in one of my old guilds, I put up a picture of me on the guild website, and the girls (we had a bunch of girls who played, it was pretty cool) all kind of flipped out. I believe their exact words were, “TRACK, STOP RIGHT NOW. YOU’RE TOO GOOD LOOKING TO BE PLAYING WORLD OF WARCRAFT”.

Of course, wipes from then on got blamed on mobs being attracted to my handsome features… :P

By: CapnTuna

CapnTuna — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:12:14 +0000

…also if anyone would like to see what I look like I do have a pic posted on the Hi, TJ page @ http://www.temerity-jane.com. I’m the guy on Alex’s left.

By: Aegoth

Aegoth — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:44:09 +0000

Oh god…

I personally tend to “place” people according to their voice. I was RL in a quite large guild pre-TBC, and we had this absolutely awesome mage.

He was very, very insightful, and always spoke at just the right time, always saying something intelligent and thoughtfull.

I had, however, never heard his voice. He didn’t have a mike, hence no voice-chat with him. After about 6-7 months he did go out and buy a microphone. Excellent, I thought, we’re raiding tonight, will be good to hear his voice.

That, ladies and gentlemen, was a turning point for me. He logged into Vent, and spoke a couple of sentences… His voice was EXACTLY like that of the gnome in “Illegal Danish”, the “WOULD YOU LIKE TO JOIN MY GUIIIIILD?” voice.

I swear, the guy could have done the speak on the entire film, he was that close.

I was cracked up over it. All seriousness evaporated from him, simply due to his voice…

By: Tigersoul

Tigersoul — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:21:02 +0000

When some of my guild members bugged me enough to get me to give them my myspace info, they all thought I’d be older fatter and geekier. Believe me, I’m geeky enough – but I don’t LOOK that geeky.

There are always the ones that prove the stereotype, but if you really look at it, most WoW players are regular people.

Still it is crazy to hear people for the first time and then see their RL pics and go… Wow! NOT what I expected!

By: goldengreen

goldengreen — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:41:39 +0000

I know in RL alot of the people that I play WoW with. They got me into the game two months ago after they’ve been playing it for years. I’m now at level 64 cat>bear and I’m just starting to meet more people. I guess that I think the new people I meet are just like my real life friends… middle class college grads who are intelligent and friendly. I’m often wrong.

By: Bellwether

Bellwether — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:48:35 +0000

The people I play with are their characters while I’m playing with them. Except in certain cases, as in the case of Sharlet the Paladin with the intense deep voice and the dainty fem pally. :P

By: dangirl

dangirl — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:34:54 +0000

I actually find that voice contributes most to the way that I think about people. Since joining the Devils after being in a local guild, I am suddenly the odd one out with the weird accent whereas it used to be the other way around. So I figure out what I think you are like from your voices – then you go and post pictures and I just can’t reconcile the two.

By: ursiheil

ursiheil — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:58:06 +0000

I’m an avid LARPer with a couple games in the twin cities… and several friends I picked up in that circle have also picked up WoW… we tend to create social atmoshperes around a day of playing WoW with “manual ventrillo”… grilling and pot lucks all add to the fun.

It does really change the perception of the little toons you go kill stuff with. But it is another interesting experience.

As for the picture, yeah… I have to say God Why too… I’m more used to some well throught out subtile costuming and prop usage that can somewhat blend in with society… perhaps with a couple odd quirks… dressing up like japaness anime characters is more akin to walking a model’s catwalk at some event, then an actual LARPing experience.

By: Tekkub

Tekkub — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:29:09 +0000

This is actually why I dislike voice chat. While it certainly has it usefulness… it destroys the fantasy.

No, not the fantasy that the other people I’m playing with are dorfs/tauren/bears/whatever. The fantasy that they AREN’T sad little nerds like me.