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Gender Inequality In Everquest

Posted by Hemos on from the but-what-about-the-children dept.

daimou writes "According to a study done at California State University, women avatars sell for 10% less than men. Also look how rich Everquest would be if it were a real country. The New Scientist is carrying the full report." Update: 06/26 14:15 GMT by S : This New Scientist article adds commentary/summary on the original paper the author, Edward Castronova, sent us info about a couple of days ago.

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  1. DUPE! by Hougaard · · Score: 0, Informative

    See http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/23/ 056204&mode=thread&tid=127&tid=186&tid=209

  2. Re:Oh my god... by Universal+Nerd · · Score: 4, Informative

    A note, right up front: I'm a guy.

    Well, I for one play as a female avatar.

    I started using girls after a Geeks in Space program with CmdrTaco, Hemos and CowboyNeal where Taco was bragging about how his character.

    He used to play a sorceress in Diablo II and some guys would walk up to him and give him stuff. I got to thinking, why not do the same.

    I've played as girls in all the online RPG's I've been in and the guys have been taking it easy on me but they really do like to hit on me - and I play along for the most part.

    On networked games in lanhouses I see guys walking around looking for the dumb b*tch that fragged their asses - all the while I'm sitting next to them.

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