BlogHer - women gamers. WoW - Comments

Gamer here.

Cherith — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:19:14 -0500

Gamer here. Editor-in-Chief over at GamingAngels.com actually. It's nice to see someone here talking about being a gaming woman. :)

No WoW for Me!

Tastelikecrazy — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:47:19 -0500

With my ridiculously addictive personality, I know better then to
even touch that game. A good friend of mine keeps offering me a free
trial; it's almost like he's trying to get me to try crack for the
first time.

What I think is really cool is when you "meet" someone online and later find out that they're a chick because I don't know about you, but I always assume that a gamer is a guy. Even though I've been playing video games for years, the gamer = guy thing is still firmly wedged into my brain.

Another really cool thing is to watch my husband get his ass utterly kicked by a clan of chicks on Call of Duty 4. I think I enjoy that just a bit more than I should. :)

Amy @ TasteLikeCrazy.com

Me too!

Brandie185 — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:24:24 -0500

Ha! This post encouraged me to join Blogher finally because I LOVE WOW! I play ~~too much~~ when I can! My husband is a computer guy and he introduced me games like Age of Empires, Age of Wonders, and then I fell in love with Age of Mythology (yes, I think I have a thing for all Age of games LOL) and then my father-in-law introduced us to WOW. We love it so much!

Anyway, women gamers rock and I in guilds with quite a few mom/women players and it's awesome! Although, every now and then I'll be chatting with someone and I get asked what grade I am in ;-)

Brandie

wife to an awesome guy and mom to 3 great kids

http://journeyof1000stitches.blogspot.com

LOLcat.

flamyngo — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 03:38:02 -0500

I, too am ever so addicted to WoW, and even run my own guild! Being a mom running a guild has made our guild the most 'chick friendly' on the server, and girls love being in the guild just because it means that they aren't feeling all weirded out all the time, and they know we try to provide an appropriate vent/guild chat environment. It is always nice to read someone else is obsessed as me haha!

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Skye — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:21:08 -0500

You definitely need to check out the Iris Network and Cerise (http://cerise.theirisnetwork.org/) as well as Feminist Gamers (http://www.feministgamers.com/).

I don't play any online

no_I_am_zoe — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:47:40 -0500

I don't play any online games, cause that would be way to addictive for me, but we do have many consoles in our house and we have a weekly D&D gig every Friday night. We actually alternate between a D&D 3.5 campaign, a Vampire campaign, and now we are adding a D&D 4.0 campaign to the mix. Oh the useless knowlege I have.

zoe

Odd that I'd see this now. I

Wyliekat — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:44:34 -0500

Odd that I'd see this now. I just started WoW on the weekend. It's terribly, amazingly, profoundly addictive. I love it. I play with my SO and we're both at level 12 now. It didn't take long.

I know that he finds it terribly sexy that I play, though that's not why I do it. I played D&D and other roleplaying games before the advent of computer games (or real ones anyway), so this is simply a natural progression for me.

Vive les women gamers!

Woot!

sparksfley — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:28:30 -0500

I've been called out, so I must comment.

I love that you'll be doing this once a month!

One aspect I'm finding out in my playing WoW, is that I get my "being social" needs met. We're friends with our guild mates and fellow officers. I talk to them at least a few times a week (on a headset) while we're playing. I play in an "adult" guild - not XXX, more like we don't accept kids - and we all have the similar struggles with kids etc. Mine are special needs, which means we don't have the babysitters, time, or money to go out much. So between our WoW accounts (my husband has one too) and Netflix, that's our entertainment, and it works!

I'm a girl. I got my husband playing, not the other way around. And I kick ass.

Oh, and if you're interested... I'm Cary on the Gnomeregan server, 70 Fire Mage. Our Guild is Knights of the Shadow, and we've just about got Kara on Farm (damn Nethersprite.) If you're on that server, say hi

Michele

Sparks and Butterflies

amen sister!

kazari — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:35:07 -0500

I currently avoid computer games like the plague. I can't afford to lose my weekends at the moment! But in the past, I have been oddly addicted to sim city, black and white, civilisation, caesar....

(do you get the feeling I like taking over the world???)

anyway, currently when I lose time, it's to silly little flash-games that tend to involve much logic and no shooting (armor games picross for one). and i may have spent a little too much time on scramble and scrabulous...

i'll be looking out for your posts!

I think I have a recipe for that...