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MMO Bans Men Playing As Women
jkcity writes "In a bizarre move Aurora Technology the owners of the King of the World MMORPG has taken the unusual step of banning men who play women characters but the ban itself does not stretch to women playing men. If you want to play as a woman now in game you have to prove you are a women via web cam. This is something that people ask for in many mmorpgs I myself have seen people say people who play women in EVE online as being some kind of degenerate but how long can a policy of verification by web cam last since its so easy to get around it doesn't seem to solve much and is an insult to many."
That means one of the admins found out his online girlfriend was a 50 year old guy from Brooklyn.
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Time to become a transsexual.
This is something that people ask for in many mmorpgs I myself have seen people say people who play women in EVE online as being some kind of degenerate but how long can a policy of verification by web cam last since its so easy to get around it doesn't seem to solve much and is an insult to many.
Maybe the mods are to blame for that, but wow.
Yah sure, they want webcams for all the female characters to "verify their gender". What you missed in your article is the fine print:
Webcam rules:
1.) Webcam image quality must be sufficient to see subject clearly.
2.) No objects should be placed so as to obstruct at least the top half of the body.
3.) Subject should be nude.
4.) No fatties.
[excuse] for the Aurora guys to look at gamer girls on their webcams.
:)
what gamer girls?
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How bad is the PR going to be when they peg an ugly woman for a guy? ;)
~S
Even Nana Visitor counts as a woman. /fixed
I think that plan might backfire when they realize a great many "gamer girls" are hambeasts. Seriously, were they expecting their own private version of GamerGirlz or whatever?
I read the internet for the articles.
...at online chat rooms. Everyone seems to think I need to verify my gender. It's getting to be where a guy can't pose as a female anywhere anymore.
Sheesh!
Take your mod and shove it!
So there was something unaccepatble about me playing as Chun Li in SF2 so many years ago?
I am becoming gerund, destroyer of verbs.
Seriously, that does sound a bit pervy. "Ok, now, take off your shirt and bra, we need to be sure they're real. Ok, now stand up and take off the rest, then turn about real slow like... yah, that's it, yes, we are becoming convinced."
Loose lips lose spit.
50-year-old guys from Brooklyn can be pretty tasty.
I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet -Stanislaw Lem
That was my first thought.
However, since I know I've met a good deal of people whose gender I couldn't determine, I'm wondering just what one needs to show on a web cam. Perhaps this is really a way for the Aurora guys to find dates who aren't 45 year old divorced males.
Is this not a ripe opportunity for a "special" quote from SNL's Pat?
I don't know, but it works for me.
When Sexybabe88, the Night Elf Priestess, gets on vent and sounds like the guy from "Saw"... my heart breaks a little every time it happens :(
That means one of the admins found out his online girlfriend was a 50 year old guy from Brooklyn.
Hey c'mon, how was I supposed to know that Slutzilla was a man!?
Crow T. Robot: Aaaah, women. Women, women, women, women, women, women, women. Ha-ha-ha-ha. For you young fellows, fresh on the cusp of a blooming manhood, the questions are abound: What are women like? What do women want? How should I treat a women[sp!]? Perhaps the thorniest problem facing any young man is finding a woman in the first place! It turns out to be... nearly impossible! This reporter spent countless hours searching for a woman, like these pictured here:
...to no avail. The nearest we came during a tense stakeout was this fellow:
...who experts believe, is not a woman. We begin to wonder, where are all the women? The over-heated references in poetry, the images that dominate our media, is it all an elaborate fraud? This grainy photograph is the only direct evidence we have of a woman in her natural environment:
...while possibly the work of jokesters, is another piece of the puzzle! And it is hard to discount this man's terrifying story!
[clips of Hobgoblins, with Amy and Daphne in them]
Crow T. Robot:
[a clip of Mike Nelson biting into a sandwich,]
Crow T. Robot:
[A black and white, Bigfoot-like photo of a large woman in a forest]
Crow T. Robot: The longer hair, the gentle and nurturing demeanor are typical of how witnesses describe their supposed encounters with women. This footprint...
[Crow stands beside a clay model of a huge Bigfoot-sized footprint]
Crow T. Robot:
Mustachioed Crow T. Robot: Then... uh... this woman - I think it was a woman... she... uh... married me.
Crow T. Robot: [off-screen as interviewer] Did you have any children, sir?
Mustachioed Crow T. Robot: I don't remember!
Crow T. Robot: Some day perhaps, an actual woman will emerge, and they will no longer exist only in the realm of myth and maybe. Thank You.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
...and in related news, Blizzard has announced that players will now have to prove they are Orcs before being allowed to play one in World of Warcraft.
So, if you're a guy, especially with a big beard and a deep voice verify anyway.
"But you're a guy"
"How dare you sir!"
"But you have a beard"
"And I'm a little sensitive about it. I'd rather you didn't mention it"
"And a deep voice"
"Yes. A lot of people comment on that."
"I'm not convinced you're a woman"
"I'll strip naked for you to prove it if you prefer"
"Yikes! No. That won't be neccesary. Thankyou for verifying you gender. Have a nice day, maam".
Sure ... if you're a woman ... for now.
More proposed rules:
- only black people may have black avatars
- only elves may play elves
- if you want STR over 10 you have to bench press 100lbs on webcam
- if you wish your character to speak another language, you must submit a request in writing, in that language, to the admins
- if your CHA is over 15 you can pretty much do what you want, after you seduce one of our admins
You can't fight in here - this is the War Room!
It's about time!
I suffer from attention surplus disorder.
I think it actually goes something like this:
"TITS OR GTFO"
I'm the same way. I'd even prefer to look at a weird not-quite-human female troll or dranei than a male character. But I look at it kind of differently:
;) And yes, I am going to hell.
If the game were first-person, and if the game were immersive, I'd pick an avatar that represented myself. But WOW isn't first-person (well, ok, you can set it to a first-person view, but that's a huge disadvantage for targeting monsters and I doubt anybody seriously plays that way), and it's definitely not immersive, what with the massive amounts of clipping errors and moronic 13-year-olds telling Chuck Norris jokes, so it doesn't meet my standards.
I do, however, have to make the occasional kid sad when they ask to cyber(or make some obscene suggestions), and I reveal my gender.
I usually take the SomethingAwful.com course and try to string them along for as much in-game money as possible before crushing their hopes and dreams. I've gotten at least 120g from WOW this way.
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Actually once somebody gets over 40 years old they start to become a tougher bite and require longer roasting and more sauce. I prefer females between 15 and 20 years old, they are flavorful and tender although some of them excercise a lot and then their organs are the best parts. There was once this census maker, I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti...
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Just put on your robe and wizard hat. What you do after that is up to you.
We should be able to accomplish it with a quick hack or two.
Was there a reason why you left out the word "Girlfriend"?
Playerauction: Selling VERIFIED female character account Have all the fun you want cybering the innocent teenager who KNOWS you're a true female sharing his love! Only $1000
I'm aging rapidly, I bought a new game and had no idea if my machine was good for it.
One time I was playing a female character in the Lineage 2 beta (terrible game, by the way) and partied with some random folk. After a bit of grinding, one of my party members said the following: Him: "Hey, are you single?" Me: "Yeah." Him: "Ohhh! Cool! Cause I need me a gaming wife." Me: "... I'm male." Him: "WHAT? YOU FAG!!" That is my story.
"Hambeast" is my new favorite word.
Why, yes I have been touched by His noodly appendage. And I plan to sue.
That shouldn't be hard for about half of them.
I got my Linux laptop at System76.
What is to stop a guy that plays a female character in RPGs from just getting his girlfriend or wife from helping?
I'd think that playing female characters in RPGs would be a good enough deterrent.
Yes, I play MMO's to escape my daily monotony. Staring at polygon guy Nalgas is not escaping , it breaks my imersion.
So if I want to play a troll do I have to show them my modded down posts?
The first thing I thought of was the Saturday Night Live Skit with "PAT".
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Of course! They just want males that like looking at male butts to play the game. They don't care what the females like, obviously. :p
If there ever was a time for a +5 Troll mod.
> I also hope they are sending you a webcam when you buy a copy/license of
> the game. I don't have one and I see no reason to buy one!
Given your appearence, I see no reason for you to buy one, either.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
I can see it now...
"Ok, we're having a problem here."
'What? I thought you said my webcam is working?'
"Yeeeah. The problem is that we still can't tell if you're a woman."
This won't end well.
Democrats or Republicans. They are both taking us to the same place and they are not afraid of us anymore.
Have you considered switching to Second Life instead?
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
I think you are seriously under estimating geekdom if you think that writing a letter in elf/orc/dwarf is going to hold back many mmo players.
Stand-in for the web-cam? Thank goodness I've got one chained to the wall in the basement right now.
You aren't thinking like Machiavelli, then. Why would you actually talk to them? You'd just promise to do so. Seriously, kids these days... no wonder things are going to hell in a handbasket. Everyone is fucking naive.
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You're thinking of Trolls, not Orcs.
What geek-girl that you know of would go through the hassle of letting some anonymous geek-admin see her real face just to have the honor of logging in with a female avatar, then becoming the target of cyber-sexual harassment because the perps _know_ you're female?
uhhh.. how about the kind that are attention whores? Which are most of them.
Who doesn't?!?
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