Chinese MMO Ban Males from Playing Female Characters

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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.

Get ready to snap yourself via live webcam to prove authenticity that your ARE indeed a male, and MUST play as a male :lol:
I'm guessing, this prove of gender is not just for the registration of their characters. If they indeed want to stop males from playing as females, the webcam thingy must be function at every single login :lol: So if you don't have a sister or a girlfriend or just any girl friend that you can ask to sit infront of the webcam everytime you wanna play, just call your mom! :lol:

So liek.. this is good for business or bad for business? :lol:
In a more correct way of asking: Do you support this new type of gender authentication, or do you think its just a joke and this game will fail?

IJJI should do this for GunZ... LOL.

@ this game is also abit sexist due to this action... why only females are allowed to play as males characters?*

[LordShaft]

i play as male chars

so uhh whats the prob?

[Cartman]

lol sucks for them

it's like what the hell it'll probably be one time and then you can just lie

just sounds stupid for the game if it was government mandated it would be one thing but it's not so it's really stupid

[MiyaDV]

teh ***....... even more hardcore then providing a ssn to prove your a female

[ect301fps]

The joys of communism...

[Zaukenaiyo]

lol,, i wonder who ***ed up there

[Erase]

**** no more free stuffs!

[nickshadow]

mmorpg are fantasy worlds were you can be anything you want.
So if you want to be a female in this fantasy world no one should really care unless,your looking to cybers with someone and if thats what your after try some porn games.

[FEAR[on]]

Mang, that's stupid. Though, I would laugh really hard if Ijji did this, because pretty much everyone plays female.

-well, i don't. but i'm nub-

[iceypain]

everyone would quit gunz if this happened
simple as

[Bureda]

Sexism ftw, I'd rather stare at a pixel ass while grinding than a male.
But my main character is always male. I like to superimpose myself onto him.

;o

[She's Perfect]

This should start happening on every game!

Males posing as females takes away the number of available men for ME!

[Bureda]

You posting around on invisible mode is not going to attract any =P

[She's Perfect]

Originally Posted by Bureda

You posting around on invisible mode is not going to attract any =P

What can I say? Invis mode is sexy.

[MiyaDV]

I'm reloging to invis mode now.