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Originally Posted by Persephone Milk  I can understand this view in an MMO like World of Warcraft where you spend your time focused leveling up your character and working on goal-oriented missions with friends. In WoW few people every really identify with their character. |
I completely agree with this, and it highlights one of the ways in which
SL is completely different from an MMO like warcraft. I've played WoW and to be honest I chose my gender in that game based on which one looks best for the particular race. But then, in WoW you're limited to no more than 5 or 6 faces for each race and most of them are ugly anyway (except the Blood Elves, which are FAR too pretty for Azeroth). In
SL you have infinite customisation of your avatar, whether male, female or genderless.
But you're right about how people don't really identify with their character (except maybe on the roleplaying realms). The character's really just a set of numbers, armour, damage-per-second ratings, and lists of gear, and the actual appearance of the character is all but totally irrelevent. In
SL there's more identification witht he avatar because you can customise it so much to be exactly what you want, instead of just picking from a list of 6 faces and 6 hairstyles.
I think this is probably one of the reasons I got bored with WoW and quit after 6 months.