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Erotic MMO Targets Female Audience
Next Generation reports on another entry into the "social mmo" category, with a look at erotic MMOG 'Spend the Night'. From the article: "A game in which adults are encouraged to indulge their sexual fantasies is bound to attract the media's attention but, so far, Republik's Spend the Night has been keeping a low profile. Come the middle of next year, when it launches online, that'll all change. Details are scant at present, and Coshland doesn't want to give too much away, but the basics are simple. Players go online, choose a graphical identity, mooch around with other players, find someone they like, and find a room. Graphics claimed to be 'cinematic' are promised, and a simple interface allows the action to proceed. 'This is a fantasy multiplayer dating game,' says Coshland. 'It's not like the dating games that we've seen coming out of Japan where you try to win the favor of someone of the opposite sex. We're providing more of a game where two people can go on a date and interact in a 3D space.'"
For the simple pleasure of saying "I'm really a man PWNZED" ,at the end of a gaming session
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
Quick, someone call Hillary! The coffee is spilling over the keyboard! HURRY!! BzzzzzZZzzztt! ArrghahahhH!!! *NO CARRIER*
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As are the the wardrobes of characters in the game!
I hope they provide one of those industrial keyboard covers with every copy.
Erotic MMO Targets Female Audience
Don't you mean "Disturbing MMO Targets Males pretending to Female Audience"
Then again... I've known a girl tell other people they were guys while online just to get them to stop bothering her.
"I am the king of the Romans, and am superior to rules of grammar!"
-Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368-1437)
So you have nothing better to do than to put it on Slashdot so that spin vultures we call The Press can grab it and use it to push their conservative, anti-games agenda at the expense of the people who are quietly enjoying it?
You, sir, are a horrible person.
...will there be PvP?
Or female "characters"?
This sounds like fun, but i'll be playing from both genders. See you there!
...nerds have no idea what women want
i think this falls under the category of "wouldn't it be HOT if women wanted a game like this?!?!?"
Jack Thompson's head just asploded.
I'm not scared of anonymous cowards.
* Xetrov pulls out his Wizard Robe and Hat
I really don't know if this game is good for anything, especially because the she-gamer/she-geek you thought you met in-game will probably turn out to be a guy, anyway.
If they had verification of the player's actual gender, though... Giggidy, giggidy, GIGGIDY!
About time someone tries to make something out of the way most of those "profile sites" (you know the places on the net where all the disoriented teen girls and leftover 30+ show off their latest piercings) sooner or later turns into an inofficial MMOG, where having a long "friends" list and many "woah, u so s3ksah" (or however the current spelling is) in the diary comments equals the levelling efforts in other games. Just look at the friends list of every randomly selected brasilian on orkut for example, that's pure hunting and gathering, and putting somebody on that list is probably about as personal as your relation to the last minion-monster you slayed in diablo 2.
This project can easily fail, mostly because there is not much experience with the genre to build upon, but i see great potential. Some form of convergence between profile sites and MMORGs could easily be "the next big thing".
[i have an opinion and i am not afraid to use it]
Even if you could somehow tell every single woman about this game, and manage not to tell a single guy, the women would still be outnumbered at least 2:1 on launch day.
"You see that guy?!?"
"Yeah he must level 60!!"
Sausage
Festival
I'm betting that the company knows exactly what will happen, and they know that people won't care, and they'll rake in the dough.
Of course, this always makes me wonder quite a bit about how we view gender and sexuality out here in 1-on-1 chats on the 'net, but I feel like that might be someone's dissertation topic. Oy.
Yeah, I know when my wife says "I'm watching a Lifetime special", I always follow her straight to the tv.
Meanwhile, Quietly (cheaply), they are screaming "Naked Female Sex Game" at the male target audience outlets. (ie SlashDot) Notice the aversion to words "Porn Game". Most women hate porn games. Most women will likely hate this one too, No matter how much money you throw at the Oxygen Channel.
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Maybe they will have a mod that unlocks secret scenes of violence in this otherwise sexually-oriented game. I wonder which party will throw a fit first.
What would be nice is if someone would just release a game like Shadowrun that has adult content mixed in. Run around nekad, you get blasted. Have sex in public, you will get blasted. Having the ability to take your avatars to the next step makes everything more exciting. Maybe even have major NPCs that you can finally 'do' after completing difficult quests. There is a huge mid-range between this sex/chat game and the games we play today. As they mentioned in TFA, legal bills are mounting as high as the development bills, and this really is a shame and shows how muted we are when it comes to creating anything these days. Even WoW has not one, but TWO aggreements you have to agree to before playing.
...single-handed interface?
...and the sexpests will come. This promises to be The Sims Online all over again, replete with such sociopathic pillars of the online community as this sterling human being.
;-)
Does he seriously think that he has any ability to screen for Bastet or Cthulu worshipping gothic pagans with dominant tendencies who in the height of passion also enjoy shots of their significant others' blood?
The other thing is, the above types will not only descend on the game in droves, but because mainstream types don't want to be anywhere near such sewer-dwelling vermin, (completely understandably!) they will be repelled, and thus a comparitively small number of the freaks will be the only people he makes money from.
The thing that MMOG authors don't seem to have got through their skulls yet is that with the possible exception of WoW, normal people don't play MMOGS, because normal people already have lives. Thus, the only demographic you're going to get in an MMOG are those who in ages past would have been part of the inpatient mental health system...Either that, or burned at the stake.
That isn't coffee shoot^H^H^H^Hpilling onto^H^H^Hver the keyboard.
Or is it a "first person shooter?" ;)
They are experimenting with a new method of verifying your age.
upon login, you wil be asked to name your senators and congressmen/women.
And as a result, ONLY the horny teens will be able to log in.
You dirty old men are screwed. or... not. it's a strange paradox, even I don't get it.
If you can read this, I forgot to post anonymously.
What _can_ you do inside a video game that's illegal ?
there's no way this can't affect married couples. It raises an interesting question. If one spouse decides to play this game and hook up with another character, is that spouse then cheating and being unfaithful? The gut reaction may be "no" but we've all seen the results of marriages and relationships broken because one partner "found someone better" in a chat room.
For castles made of sand must eventually return to the sea.
Female user: "Thanks. Not too bad yourself. Oh, btw, my name is Virgil and I'm a lumberjack in the Appalachians. This internet is the best thing ever!"
Wonder how many will end up being bots advertising sites... Or how many will ask you to pay after a certain amount of "time"
Now I only need this software to connect to the http://www.vibrafoon.com/ software on my and my girlfriends' phones :-P
"We're providing more of a game where two people can go on a date and interact in a 3D space."
As opposed to interacting in real life, which is...oh yea, 3 freakin D. I love games just as much as the next nerd, but games cannot mimic all aspects of human life. I don't care how 'bouncy' the character models are. It cannot replace going out on a real date and getting some real tail, but I speak for myself here. Hurry and jump on, the bandwagon's overflowing!
Next up, Xtreme Grocery Shopping 3D!!!
Walking into some room and see two naked guys. All I can think of is "deer in bright lights" look...
"whoops! wrong room.."
sri
NWN has servers with mods for S&M, nudity, sexual positions of all kinds and lot's of people roleplaying all sorts of kinky desires.
Will the rooms have limits? Ragdoll physics and group sex? Clipping problems could be hilarious...
This MMO will be kind of like bad porn, but without the pictures.
Brilliant.
What's worse is there won't be any girls, it will all be guys, about 1/3 of them pretending to be women.
"We have found, just in talking to people and focus tests, that women respond better to our concept than men."
Yup. When 98% of men respond to your concept with sleazy/deviant comments and only 97% of women, well, there's your target market right there.
What if this catches on in Korea - can you imagine the headlines????
You had me at merlot