Asmongold's Opinion On Playing Women in MMOs Shows Lost Ark's Problem

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MMORPG’s often have extensive character customization options. Developer Smilegate’s MMO Lost Ark is one such game, offering a highly in-depth character customization system. Different players have varied philosophies about how they design their RPG characters. Some treat it like a pure creative tool, while others do their best to recreate their real-life appearance in the game engine.

Popular Twitch Streamer Asmongold definitively falls into the latter category. During a recent stream, he discussed the possibility of playing Lost Ark as a female character, saying that him playing a woman would be “weird.”

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The topic came up while Asmongold was browsing the Lost Ark subreddit on stream. At around the 1:32:06 mark, he comes across a post titled “It’s not a complaint…” and a meme consisting of two images. The top image showed artwork of an armored and bearded sorcerer with the caption: “The sorcerer I wanted to be.” The second image shows a quartet of Lost Ark’s female magic-users with the caption: “What Lost Ark forces me to be.” The post is, of course, a reference to the fact that Lost Ark has gender-specific classes, with both of its Mage subclasses being exclusively female.

Asmongold took the opportunity to once again express his distaste for playing as a female character, stating that he will never play as one of Lost Ark’s female-exclusive classes. “I think it’s weird,” he said, explaining why he doesn’t want to play as a girl. “I understand this is the Apex boomer take. I don’t like playing girl characters in games.” He explained that this is because he sees the character as a physical representation of himself in the game. Asmongold acknowledged that the current Lost Ark