Erotic MMO Targets Female Audience

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday October 5, 2005 @10:16AM from the market-expansion dept.

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.'"

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Build it... by petrus4 · 2005-10-05 15:18 · Score: 0, Flamebait

...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. ;-)