I make characters to be whatever gender fits their concept best. Does that count as "strategic reasons"? It's close enough for me.

Nty too gay for that. And also no, butts don't interest me whatsoever.

I switch between male and female.
I don't even know why.

To try differences in armor.
Experiences something different.
to play a different character in situations very different to my own.

I do find her beautiful though, at times. She isn't really "sexy" though, i didn't make her such.

It feels balanced to me to have both male and female characters. I wouldn't write a book with all-female or all-male characters.

Ok.. I wanted to post some memes about it but all of them are.. well... not appropriate... but the point is this:
In every mmorpg you can recognize who is playing particular character by following this rule:

The more "skimpy clothes" character wears - the more probable it that it is being controlled by opposite gender player.

dat walk and tail is too sexual on my argonian, zos has to nerf that stuff

If I wanted to perv on the female form, I'd run behind one. I don't cross genders just to see pixel-jiggle.

lol! this thread is like watching dumb and dumber (not the people-just the idea) i'm amused but feel dumb for being amused. so am not sure which is dumber anyways-a lot of people (like me) view their toons as expressions of different facets of their own selves so watching your own booty jiggle is not on the table, nor is it any indication of sexual orientation which gender you choose. i really should have tried harder to go back to sleep i'm thinking-hahaha

Jim Carrey & Jeff Daniels Ftw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbKXoSQQ_kE

I view my character as representation of me in that game world.Since i am male i could never play as female because that is just not me, i can never identify with female character.There is just something "off" for me about playing female character, its like if someone asked me to do sex change operation i would say no bloody way i like being male, same with RPG games.

As for jiggling asses, i play game because i am in mood to play game, not to watch ass.Have sex or watch *** if you feel horny.

theher0not wrote: »

I play as a female khajiit because I think they look better than what the males do.

This

Tommy_The_Gun wrote: »

Ok.. I wanted to post some memes about it but all of them are.. well... not appropriate... but the point is this:
In every mmorpg you can recognize who is playing particular character by following this rule:

The more "skimpy clothes" character wears - the more probable it that it is being controlled by opposite gender player.

Doesn't always work though.

I'm female and my female khajiit often wears the Graht Climbers Activewear costume in town, the one that's basically a mini skirt and crop top. Even her armour typically has no sleeves and overall looks fairly minimal (it fits with her combat style, which is all about sneaking and moving - freedom of movement is more important than thick armour because she protects herself by simply not being there when the blow lands). Plus after all the time I spent debating between leopard spots or jaguar spots I don't want to hide them.

In Guild Wars 2 my sylvari elementalist's whole outfit is built around the "barely there" concept. (And in GW2 light armour you can get pretty close to 'not there at all'.)

But I'm straight and female and one of those is a cat and the other is a plant. I'm sure some people won't believe me but I'm completely confident say there's nothing sexual about it for me, it's just what I think the character would choose to wear. My female human in both games is pretty fully clothed. I actually laughed when I saw the description for the other bosmer mini skirt said ""Covering yourself from head to toe makes perfect sense … if you're a stuffy old Breton!" because my human is a breton and I previewed it on her first and thought "Oh gods no!", then tried it on my khajiit and it somehow looked much better.

My husband always plans female characters, partially because he thinks the whole 'great hero warrior' archetype is more interesting when she's this cute girl who no one would expect to kick ass like that, and partially because he says he finds it easer to design a nice looking female character. And yet he always keeps them fully clothed (he usually picks big, chunky heavy armour, keeps the helmet on, the whole works.). He had a go at me once for playing in a snowy map on my khajiit, saying she looked like she'd freeze even if she is covered in fur.

I'm male play as female, played to many games as male so wanted something more pleasurable for my eyes with ESO

As a male who plays only female characters, this thread gave me a good laugh.

However for me, I don't really think about such things as I create a character or play them. In fact, I find myself favoring the smaller chest and booty proportions when creating a character.

It's not until someone brings the topic up do I think "Huh. They do giggle, don't they?"