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Gamers Pay To Play With Girls

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the this-could-get-expensive-fast dept.

taucross writes "A new site allows lonely Xbox 360 gamers to pay a prescribed fee for a few minutes of game time with one of the 'PlayDates', a girl who is paid to play video games. Gamers can choose to have a 'flirty' or 'dirty' experience with one of the PlayDates. Is this what we meant when we said we wanted 'adult gaming'?"

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  1. Sounds Similiar. by Icegryphon · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Sounds like an Idea they have taken from some Maid Cafes in Japan,
    You can pay to play games with one of them.
    Sure we are ronrey nerds, but it helps to get them out of the house.
    Hopefully they wont end up being Hikikomoris
    I am also a strong supporter of Arcades, They should not be dead,
    They are great play to hang out with friends and practice moves.

  2. Capitalism by ktappe · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sad as it might be, this is capitalism at its purest. A customer desire is met with supply. Admit it--many of you wish you'd thought of this.

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  3. Re:May I be the first to say... by SpeedyDX · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually this is the perfect market segment for such a "dating" service, if you can call it that. Other dating services target those who don't have time to indulge in the social/leisure scene (business people, etc.), and this one targets those who don't WANT to indulge in the social scene. Instead of looking up profiles for common interests, you already know that the PlayDate you're matched up with will have at least one major common interest (gaming).

    I think it's an interesting (although ridiculously expensive) idea. I have no idea if a guy in that position would pay over $7 a pop just to game with a girl, but it does have some potential. Then again, dating sites like eHarmony charge anywhere from $20-$60/month. Love is a lucrative business.

  4. Where do I sign up? by tompaulco · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wow, what a job! I get paid to play games and all I have to do is pretend to be a girl to some guys that I will never have to meet in real life.

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  5. Reminds me of a funnier case by Moraelin · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually, it reminds me of a case I read about in the late 90's.

    So one guy meets this nice girl online, they chat a bit, get along just fine, she even sends him a photo. Looked like a relatively pretty girl in her twenties. So he buys a plane ticket and flies to the USA to meet her.

    I know what some of y'all are thinking. Nah, the photo was _not_ photoshopped. It was hers too.

    It just had been taken 60 years earlier.

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  6. wifi in the kitchen? by Thud457 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How on Earth (and the seven circles of teh intarwebs, for that matter) do they adequately verify that these "girls" are actually human females?!!!!
    This is the internet, after all.

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