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Sony Online Seeking Queen of Everquest II

Posted by Zonk on from the soe-abandons-last-shred-of-dignity dept.

KingSkippus writes "Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) and Stuff Magazine is seeking a real life look-alike for Everquest II's Antonia Bayle, Queen of Qeynos. In preparation, it has launched a Web site that will go live on May 17. The winner will receive a modeling contract with SOE and a photo spread in Stuff Magazine. Perhaps pictures would make lucrative auction items as well?"

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  1. Hmm. by Amiasian · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This coming from someone who never was much into MMORPGs, what sets Everquest apart and makes it so crack-like? Any time I've ever given a hand at the genre (or the hack and slash variant) it just seems to get redundant very quickly and sure there's better items and abilities, but it's more of the same.

    As for the modeling campaign . . . seems tacky. If I wanted to market a game, sex appeal works, yeah - but I'd rather market it on technical merits. I suppose EQ is more of a general population game, though. So, you use the most basic of methods.

  2. Re:While other companies turn out innovative MMO's by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Anyone else notice that "Antonia's" body proportions have gotten slightly more realistic over the years, and her footwear more practical, as SOE slowly figured out that their gaming audience was not exclusively 12-year old boys?

    On the original EQ box, she had hips that were easilly double the width of her mid-rift, massive globes of DD-cup flesh pressing against the bust-line, and was impossibly standing in a field of grass with spike-heel boots on while gently clinging to her staff as if it were a phallus.

    With each iteration, her heels got lower (until the became flat soles), her figure (while still in absurd supermodel proportions) looked less and less like a barbie doll, her hair got shorter and darker.

    It's perhaps the first time in computer game history that a central female character actually became less "sexed up" over time.

    By the time EQ2 comes out, she will probably be slightly overweight, wearing Birkinstock sandals, ragged jeans, and a Megatokyo t-shirt.

  3. They had one before... by Jerrith · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Interesting. They had a model for Antonia before, I wonder what happened. Was she not close enough to what they wanted, or was there some sort of falling out?

    I used GIS to find an image from the New Orleans Fan Faire of her: http://gallery.townrebels.org/album10/Picture_023
    (she's the one on the left)