Keep It in the Bedroom

We have all seen them. The women and men who repeatedly say inappropriate remarks in guild chat, or send messages that were meant to be tells, and then quickly reply MT. Of course this does sometimes happen, but we all know there are those that have so many mis-tells that it must be fake. Often these tells come from the women, but the men do it too. I have yet to decide if these are real women that are very much in need of attention or men who are pretending to be women to get free items from the men. I think the latter is a bit more disturbing, especially when it comes to cybering. For those men out there salivating over pixels, this is definitely something to ponder.

I have come across two extremely disturbing mis-tells in my gaming life, the first I think was meant to go to his wife, “I just wish sometimes you would lean over and _____ while I’m gaming.” I think you can all fill in the blanks there. The other was from the guild flirt. Every guild has one. The women who constantly let everyone know that they are a real woman, always have a sexual comment to make, call everyone hun and sweetie, and giggle a lot, as in /tee hee. The woman was virtually dating every officer. Being friends with a few of the officers, it was well known to me that she repeatedly cybered with many of them. TMI anyone? This was made worse by the fact that her real life boyfriend was in the guild as well, and that some of these men were married in real life and playing with their wives, too. Unfortunately, it became a well-known fact to the rest of the guild when in the middle of group chat she said, “I slowly move my tongue up and down your body. I shudder in anticipation of what you will do to me.” This is obviously why we weren’t getting any heals from her! She did of course apologize over and over, although I think she would have been better to play it off as a joke.

Most gamers think of gold farmers as those groups of players with horrible names that run around killing everything in sight, and can't speak English. Little do they know, that there is a much more sly and predatory gold farmer on the loose. In fact, this farmer is so devious that gamers won't even realize that they've been hit. The term gold digger is actually more appropriate. Yes, I'm talking about that scantly clad night elf you've been taking on dungeon tours. She doesn't want to meet up in real life and date you, and she has no interest in being your lover online. Heck, most likely she isn't even a she. I have known a few males that have created female characters to flirt with male gamers to get money and gear. Once the heat gets too hot, they ditch the guy, and move on to the next, while using the extra cash to gear up their main.