"All my lies are always wishes"One obvious problem is that of gender swapping: men who play as women and vice versa. Szell and Thurner say that other studies have shown that around ten per cent of online gaming populations engage in gender swapping. They say there’s no reason to think this would be any different in Pardus and that it shouldn’t affect the results.
-10% is a BIG number. So 10% of this population is pretending to be a gender they're not? That's fascinating and says a lot about human desire and psychology.
It's a good strategy though.“Males reciprocate friendship requests from females faster than vice versa and hesitate to reciprocate hostile actions of females,” say Szell and Thurner.
A more serious problem could be the well known phenomenon that women tend to receive better treatment in male-dominated online gaming communities.