MALES BANNED FROM PLAYING FEMALE CHARACTERS

[Nv Heather vR]

Chinese MMO Bans Males From Playing Female Characters

Players of the Chinese MMORPG, King of the World, may have found themselves unable to log into their accounts this past weekend. The game’s publisher, Aurora Technology, has apparently frozen the accounts of all male players choosing to play as a female characters. Now, only female players can play female characters, and they’re required to prove their gender via a webcam. Females wanting to play males are still allowed though.

I’m still waiting to hear a reason for this though. The best I can think of is that they wanted people playing to be sure that the people they were talking too were really the gender they claimed they were, but then why still allow females to play male character? Seems like a pretty easy way to drive off a lot of customers though. Besides essentially getting rid of any male wanting to play as a female character (a fairly large consumer base), what about all those people who had their characters really built up at the time of the ban? Are they just out of luck and have to start over? And the webcam thing really isn’t going to deter male players from playing as females. All you’d need is a female friend willing to sit in front of a computer for a couple minutes or a penchant for cross-dressing.


Article posted by Jonathan at
http://news.filefront.com/chinese-mmo-bans-males-from-playing-female-characters/

 

[KoG HEAD 2 HEAD]

wow this sounds like the stupidest thing i have ever heard a company do. The fact of the matter is, who cares about what gender the person is in real life, it is a MMORPG and therefore the person can( or is supposed to be) whoever they want. Sounds as if some people complained about the gender of characters they were playing with and wanted to bring down certain peoples accounts.

 

[Nv Heather vR]

I know....I think its ridiculous. Honestly, they're banning males from playing female characters but yet females are still allowed to play male characters. I just don't see how they can get away with the whole thing of "proving your a female."

 

[Chandler]

Because it's a game copyrighted and owned by a private company. They can do whatever they want with it.

 

[blondiizzle]

While I personally don't agree with the practice in some aspects, they also do it for Phantasy Star Universe over in Japan. A lot of it has to do with cultural taboos and such. I wonder how it changes the treatment of the females in the game. One of the nice things about having other male characters parading around as females is that people are never sure if you are a female until you are in their party (or they are in yours). Takes away a lot of the normal harassment people dole out over in other games once they hear your voice.