Accidental breast reduction hobbles online game Age of Conan

• caitlin13
  June 16th, 2008 at 10:46 am

  Ugh, that’s disgusting.

• J23
  June 16th, 2008 at 10:51 am

  Lol, like they could find girlfriends!
  Besides, even if they could - would you really wish ********* like that on your sister, daughter etc?

• wrong
  June 16th, 2008 at 11:00 am

  Hah, a good PR stunt.

• kid_icarus
  June 16th, 2008 at 11:18 am

  girlfriends scmirlfriends…..

• Evilbeagle
  June 16th, 2008 at 11:49 am

  Aw, give these gamers a break. That’s as close to breasts as they may ever get.

• rissu
  June 16th, 2008 at 11:50 am

  and if the gamers are female?

• clinton robert labombard
  June 16th, 2008 at 12:01 pm

  I’m agreeing with wrong: it looks like a great PR stunt. On the other hands I do like grenades instead of bombshells.

• Thomas
  June 16th, 2008 at 12:08 pm

  Something tells me there aren’t many girls that play Age of Conan.

• fluff
  June 16th, 2008 at 12:29 pm

  Definitely a PR stunt in my opinion.

• rissu
  June 16th, 2008 at 12:34 pm

  Thomas, you would be incorrect actually. The ratio of female gamers has gone up in the past years. I do not play AOC, but not because of the big boobies, just a test run of the game didn’t appeal to me. But I have been online gaming for the past 8 years and I do know a lot of female gamers who are playing AOC.

• Another_Jake
  June 16th, 2008 at 12:55 pm

  “What a bunch of teenaged pervs. They’ll never get a girlfriend.” –says Joe Cool as he returns to oogling his Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition while his wife’s back is turned.

  PSH! I say, PSH!

• Tim Giachetti
  June 16th, 2008 at 1:04 pm

  Toooooo funny!
  thnx Adam

• Neatoramawontsendmeapassword
  June 16th, 2008 at 1:40 pm

  That last bit is funny. Probably true, too. But if they did find girlfriends, they’d just be disappointed when they find out that DD breasts don’t stick straight up and out. Well, natural ones don’t, anyway.

• clinton robert labombard
  June 16th, 2008 at 2:55 pm

  Or the use of unrealistic females is a further effort on the part of game designers to reduce the population by driving the current youngsters away from being attracted to real women. Just a thought.

• violet
  June 16th, 2008 at 3:02 pm

  @ clinton: Curbing the procreation potential of pasty-faced basement dwellers? Where do I sign?

  I kid, pasty-faced basement dwellers! Don’t shoot me with your super guns!

• punching_judy
  June 16th, 2008 at 3:14 pm

  Huh, I actually had respect for the company for a little bit there. Now? Back to “not interested”.

• Video Game Dork
  June 16th, 2008 at 3:29 pm

  There’s tons of girls who play MMOs. A lot more that you’d really think. In fact, at least three of my female friends are addicted to various ones.

  One of my male friends broke up with his girlfriend (partially) because she spend so much time on an MMO she would do anything else!

  As a fellow video game dork, that’s saying something!

• seekshelter
  June 16th, 2008 at 4:20 pm

  it was a female, who i had no idea was even interested in that sort of thing, that got me started with mmos.

  i like that the makers looked at this as being a problem…

• cuimhne
  June 16th, 2008 at 4:26 pm

  Sure, “accidental”. We need more women actually making games!

• Padraig
  June 16th, 2008 at 4:29 pm

  Errr…. Is the picture from the “reduced boobs” or “normal boobs” version?

• Jose
  June 16th, 2008 at 7:36 pm

  LOL at some of the comments here. First of all the game is 18+. Second, the reason the community was pissed was because they felt Funcom was reneging on the fact that this was an 18+ game and that they were heading to world of warcraft territory/censorship.

• Mond
  June 16th, 2008 at 11:08 pm

  Females have had the luxury of having “ideal” men in their lives since childhood. Prince Charming, The Brave Knight on a White Horse, The Prince that wakes up Snow White with a kiss, Cinderella’s Glass Slipper toting Prince. I think women look for these ideal prince-like traits in their choices for mates/spouses. Maybe not consciously, but perhaps subconsciously (after all, society raised them that way. How could women not help but seek a “prince”?).

  I cannot recall a single “fairy tale” from my childhood, that was meant for boys, that describes the traits we should seek in our mates/spouses. Can you?

  So now, us guys have MMO avatars to fulfill our unreasonable expectations of the “ideal” mate. It is about time! I’ve always known I could draw/Photoshop/Blender/imagine a better woman than I could ever actually find in real life. Perky DD’s, right on! And I’m not even a breast man.

• K!P
  June 16th, 2008 at 11:10 pm

  the funny thing is that te reduction was supposedly done to prevent a bug where the boobs would “clip” trough the amor. Render/item issue so to say.

• DOJ
  June 17th, 2008 at 3:00 am

  K!P, this is a MMO, cleavage IS armor.

• Jay
  June 17th, 2008 at 4:20 am

  What the hell does this have to do with girlfriends? I have a girlfriend. Nothing wrong with a little T&A in games every now and then. There’s also bare chested bulking muscle men in video games as well. Sheesh, get over it.

• Jay
  June 17th, 2008 at 4:23 am

  Funny how women whine about things like this.. yet they’re pretty damn idealistic themselves… Not saying they’re all.

• MoonCake
  June 17th, 2008 at 5:38 am

  you have to think of WHY gamers have a gripe with this, and it’s not that it reduces their chances of “buffing the lobby” with images of smaller boobs– it’s the principle. i’m not into MMOs, but being a gamer, I know what fellow gamers like.. and that is NOT to change anything about the original graphics/animation. if all of a sudden they made a black mario, gamers would freak out. but then rev al sharpton would step in and say they were all racists because they rejected the idea of a black mario. but they wouldn’t be racists at all because it’s not that they have a problem with mario being black, it’s that they have a problem with the re-animation of a classic character.

  yes, i understand as games are enhanced and new versions are made, characters go through some kind of transformation. but their traits stay relatively the same.

  of course, we all know that if this patching incident were the opposite by making the boobs bigger, nobody would have a problem with it…

• JC
  June 17th, 2008 at 5:48 am

  “We are working on a fix for this and your breasts should be back to normal soon.”

  Don’t worry. It’s ok.

  The gamers community.

• Jimbo
  June 17th, 2008 at 6:09 am

  Don’t pay 50 dollars for a game that requires 10 to 15 dollars per month to play. As long as fools are going to pay it, there are going to be companies that will take your money.

• Anon
  June 17th, 2008 at 8:12 am

  If you all want to blabber about boobs, why not bring up DOA Beach Volleyball. Compare this game to that and this one is rather tame…. And as for female gamers, Yes.. I tend to stray from games with idiotic amounts of PR generated for the male audience… I play Anarchy Online, Funcom’s other game. And no I would never play Age of Conan.

• Zamboro
  June 17th, 2008 at 8:20 am

  As much as I dig the feminist angle of the site, the recurring “Look at how infantile men are” quickies wear thin after a while.

  #1. Heterosexual men enjoy viewing well built women. If this makes you feel insecure about your own body, then identify that insecurity as your own shortcoming instead of a shortcoming of the men (and women, mind you!) who designed the game.

  #2. Games, films and so on often do make use of idealized female AND male forms. Age of Conan contains not only improbably slender, buxom women, but also improbably fit, muscular men. After all, who wants to play an adventure game set in a fantasy world where everyone’s a flabby sadsack? Singling out the portrayal of women in the game and ignoring the equally idealized portrayal of men seems a bit myopic; has it occurred to you that this balance isn’t limited to games, that the fit, muscular male hero is a staple of entertainment, and that men have been cheering rather than complaining all these years?

• ted
  June 17th, 2008 at 9:44 pm

  Why would they want to fix the bug where boobs keep popping out of their outfits, anyways?

• Celeste
  June 19th, 2008 at 4:41 am

  My fiancé plays the game, so clearly not everyone “needs to get a girlfriend.” If you’ve actually seen the chicks in the game and consider them girlfriend material, then your idea of a date probably involves whips and chains so being a gamer isn’t really the concern.

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