Bah, I can talk and fight at the same time. The wife of our supergroup leader in City of Heroes was from Australia. Best voice ever. We’d all gush over her while committing atrocities on criminal scum, and (probably) no flirting involved.
I’ve always thought that would be a useful feature for Teamspeak/ventrillo/other chat servers: it’s pretty easy to modulate a voice in realtime to effectively change gender either direction – I’d like to see an option for this, primary to reduce the disconnect between my character’s gender and my own (if any).
I didn’t know telling somebody I love their voice was weird. I’ve told guys I love their voice, some people just have amazing voices and need to be complimented on it, like Xaiter.
I used to play in a multiplayer game that was mostly text, with a few icons. Even though I deliberately chose a dwarven female character, with somewhat masculine features (text description, no pics when I started), the fact that she was female meant that a lot of male characters hit on her.
When I started a dark elf female character, she attracted even more attention from males.
I’ve also played a lot of pen and paper RPGs, mostly D&D. Even when the guys in the group know that I’m married, and can see that I’m anywhere from 10 to 20 years older than they are, it seems that the fact that I’m a FEMALE GAMER overrides everything else. Even if they know my husband. I’m not talking about mild flirtations here…if I mentioned that my husband will be out of town for a couple of weeks, I’d get a few phone calls wanting to know if I was interested in getting together.
I’d say that most guys can take no for an answer. Even most male gamers. But the ones who don’t understand that no means no can be a real pain.
I already have problems speaking over VoiP in general, adding doing so in English when what I want to say is “MUEVETEJOPUTAGILIPOLLASNOTECOMASELPUTOSUELO*” doesn’t make it easier. But sadly I’ve only had one Spanish-language guild where the written parts weren’t lolspeak, which makes my eyes hurt 
Jragon, “I love your voice” is one of those things which change a lot depending on tone and, uh, trimmings. “oh My GAWWWD, i LOVE!!! your voice” and “wow, I love your voice” are two very different things. The second one is a compliment and I’ll be happy to get it - after the fight; the first one, just no.
- Move the fuck off you bloody asshole stop eating the motherfucking floor. For some reason, Hispanics stop flirting straight away after one of those - but if they hear an “aydiossss” over VoiP, the Swedes, Dutch, Danish etc find it unbelievable sexy. Perhaps what I should do is curse at them
I don’t play MMOs, (so forgive my lack of lingo), but my mom does. Usually, she plays with my brother and his colleagues who are employees for the company that makes some of the games. So when she is with them, they are playing for work, my brother has clued them in, it doesn’t really happen.
But I guess she has other times where she plays with other groups of people, and gets hit on. She’s apparently a pretty skilled player, and her characters tend to draw fans among her group. (Guild?). One guy somehow found out she was coming to the state where he lived and wanted to meet up. We siblings always think it’s really funny because my mother is a mid-60s granny who crochets in between quests and sounds like Marge Simpson with a semi-English accent.
My brother always thought it was unfair. Just be being a girl, I’d get guys asking me if I needed help leveling up and giving me shit. Once I made the mistake of giving one of the guys my phone number. Never again.
I joined my brother’s guild and then married one of the members (not for real; in the game, because marrying your characters gave you certain special abilities). It was all in good fun for me but I think he took it more seriously than I did. He was a nice guy but I met him irl once and he was painfully shy and super awkward (and clearly had some mad photoshopping skills).
My viewpoint on this is a little different…I’m a man pushing 50 and I prefer to use female characters that look as close to my wife as cartoonishly possible. I think it’s my need for this caricature of her to be at my command to beat the crap of any monster or pvp’r that crosses her/my path…to make her out to be some bad-ass Kate Beckinsale in a catsuit dishing out punishment in lethal doses online. I guess you could call it a fantasy of mine…where nobody really gets hurt, but it feels like someone got the beatdown.
The modulators I’ve heard (from people using them on Youtube–I’m not big into MMOs) don’t quite sound realistic. It’s not as easy as just lowering pitch–you also have to mess with the harmonics or else it just sounds like a pitch shift. I can only think that, in game, the lower audio quality lets you pull it off. Otherwise it should be obvious, as it just sounds different, and in the same way as all other modulators.