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Drucila
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Obviously not as sensitive to the needs of transgendered gamers as we in the west, it would seem that Chinese game companies take a dim view of males who want to be females -- in computer games, at least. Chinese MMORPG King of the World won't accept male players masquerading as female characters and is putting a stop to such shenanigans.
Aurora Technology, a subsidiary of Shanda and developer of the game, is freezing the accounts of male gamers with female avatars, and anybody who chooses to play as a female in the game will have to prove they are of permitted gender via webcam. While nonsensical to us, you have to remember that China does love its reckless regulations, so this could almost seem normal coming from the land where skeletons are outlawed in World of Warcraft. Of course, the rules could just be a scam to get webcam shots of gamer girls for the developers.
Whatever the reason, I've noticed a demographic of male gamers who almost exclusively play as females and they probably won't be so keen on breaking that tradition just to play King of the World. It's not that they're getting their rocks off over looking at digital arse, they just prefer gaming with womanly avatars (they claim). To deny a gamer the freedom to play who they want is kind of ridiculous, especially when legitimate female gamers have to now jump through this extra hoop to play.
I somehow get the feeling that this game really isn't going to be worth such effort.
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| 10/16/07 11:18 |
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cswella
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And their stupidity cancels out half the potential sales.
Seems silly, spend the money to make a game, but then kill it with a stupid regulation.
Or I could just get my friend's sister to volunteer for the camera.
Not that I'm gonna even consider playing King of the World, this is the first I've heard of it.
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| 10/16/07 11:26 |
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Thundarpants
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That does seem pretty stupid to me too. I play a lot of female toons, and not for any kind of pervy reasons. They are going to kill their potential income.
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| 10/16/07 11:56 |
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psychobunny
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This kind of policy could very well be the end of Horde paladins :p
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| 10/16/07 12:39 |
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trepidalex
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I got banned too. Wtf?
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| 10/16/07 12:58 |
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meumesmo
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R.I.P horde paladins... I feel like I have contributed to that... j/k lol
Oh well let's all be happy that (I would assume, but I'm not being a racist or anything of that sort) we don't live in China ^^
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| 10/16/07 13:56 |
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darkparadox
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Personally I don't think it's ban worthy but to each his own. Male's who play female characters DO annoy me, however if it's not "oh I'm a girl lets cyber and gimme loot", then no real probs there.
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| 10/16/07 15:48 |
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Rogue
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In my head I just laughed so hard I was crying.
That's really really funny. If you look at the percentage of people who play female chars and are male, it's really high. Even some females play male chars to avoid being hit on... OR to be funny, OR some other reason. It doesn't really matter. I mix it up by making my PvE chars male and my PvP chars female.
So whatever, I got a laugh out of it.
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| 10/16/07 17:17 |
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