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MMORPG Outrage: Age of Conan gives players a breast reduction
Sordid sex stories are the bread and butter of entertainment journalism. It’s what celebrity tabloids thrive on.
In videogames, however, sex controversies don’t seem to pop up that much. Aside from your occasional hot coffee debate, there really isn’t much going on out there. It's assumed most game players don’t have girlfriends (if they did, why would they be up all night questioning the sexuality of “newbie” players in Counterstrike?) and so the topic is rarely written about...
Until now. Killscreen Poetry, being the sordid publication that it is, has decided to lift the lid on what is possibly the biggest sex controversy to ever hit the MMORPG world.
According to gamers on this forum, the developers of Age of Conan, an online MMORPG, recently decided to place limits on the size of its female characters’ breasts. That’s right. LIMITS (I can already hear 14-year-old male readers groan in hormonal anger).
Until a couple of days ago, Age of Conan players allegedly had the ability – some are now terming it the “right” – to select the breast size of their female avatars. This ranged from small sizes, to the stupidly huge, Dead or Alive sizes of endowment I like to call “boobage elephantitis”.
As of a few days ago, however, players can now only select a small, some would say “more realistic”, breast size.
Follow these links to see the alleged evidence: before and after shots.
Suffice to say, it has sent the Age of Conan forums aflame with controversy. Some players are calling it an outrage. Some are even threatening to quit the game altogether – and, I assume, join MMORPGs where a players’ need for female characters with back-breaking frontage is respected.
It’s shaping up to be the biggest controversy the video game world has seen since the Night Trap Senate enquiry. Hell, it could even possibly trump the Monica Lewinsky scandal if it gets enough momentum.
Of course, most of the angry gamers have glossed over the fact that it’s only male players, with female avatars, who seem to be complaining – raising a number of concerning and gender bending questions.
It also seems that, from most reports, the original breast size of Age of Conan’s female characters didn’t even fit into their armour, so a reduction was probably necessary.
Still, the changes now mean that any single, lonely Age of Conan player, who’s just burned through an 18 hour marathon session, and is all jittery and crazy from HP-PTSD (hit point post traumatic stress disorder), and the only thing he needs to recover is just a quick glimpse of a poorly rendered female Elf character with a size 84F cup.... well, he isn’t going to have that opportunity anymore.
And, readers, such an image just tugs on the heartstrings a little too much. Bring on a petition I say. Let’s fight this.
5 comments:
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Thanks Hemingway. Although I think you'll find the pixellated nipples in Duke 3D were actually pixellated tassels... I had a photographic memory for these things when I was 12.
Just an update: Funcom, the developer of Age of Conan, recently answered gamers concerns about the breast reduction. Funcom's Glen Swan wrote on an Age of Conan forum:
"We can confirm that some of the female models in the game have had the size of their breasts changed. This is due to an unintended change in data that was introduced in an earlier patch, data which controls the so-called morph values associated with character models and the size of their respective body parts.
"We are working on a fix for this and your breasts should be back to normal soon."
Everyone can breath a collective sigh of relief.
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you fail - epic fail.
breast haters like you are the main reason women with big / large breasts feel uncomfortable. the psychologic stress your hatered causes, forces innocent girls into suffering dangerous operations of breast reduction. just because it doesn't fit in your tiny picture of aestetic. probably it's just your dick that's very small so that you think a female's breast must be tiny, too. get a life, get tolerant - poor loser!
(and no, i'm not 14, more like 24.)
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Anyone who is interested in MMO games will surely know about the famous title Age of Conan from the stables of the famous game publishers, Eidos and Funcom. Those who do not know about the terms MMO and confuse it for MMORGP should know that the latter means massive multiplayer online role playing game whereas the former means massive multiplayer online. These are two different categories of online games. Also lovingly referred to as AoC, Age of Conan has its own followers all over the world. There are countless websites that cater to the followers of this game and thanks due to its popularity, there are many online forums too that have been specially launched for the lovers of this game.
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mikeadam
AoC Gold
First! Haha! Take that Hemingway, you drunken lout.
But ahem, yes...
Frankly the fact that there's a controversy at all disgusts me, and highlights the debauched manner in which the video games industry nowadays panders to the depraved gamer market. Choosing the size of one's breasts?!! Codswallop. Why, in my day we were grateful to pay for and accept a 3-second glimpse at a square brown nipple on the pixellated strippers in Duke Nukem 3D.
Yours in l33t-ness
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle