Comments on: Accidental breast reduction hobbles online game Age of Conan

By: Celeste

Celeste — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:41:53 +0000

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.

By: ted

ted — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:44:58 +0000

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

By: Zamboro

Zamboro — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:20:09 +0000

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?

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:12:45 +0000

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.

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:09:36 +0000

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.

By: JC

JC — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:48:45 +0000

“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.

By: MoonCake

MoonCake — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:38:53 +0000

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…

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:23:59 +0000

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

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:20:56 +0000

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.

By: DOJ

DOJ — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:00:59 +0000

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

By: K!P

K!P — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:10:12 +0000

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.

By: Mond

Mond — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:08:25 +0000

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.

By: Jose

Jose — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:36:17 +0000

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.

By: Padraig

Padraig — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:29:51 +0000

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

By: cuimhne

cuimhne — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:26:39 +0000

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

By: seekshelter

seekshelter — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:20:05 +0000

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…

By: Video Game Dork

Video Game Dork — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:29:56 +0000

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!

By: punching_judy

punching_judy — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:14:28 +0000

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

By: violet

violet — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:02:36 +0000

@ 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!

By: clinton robert labombard

clinton robert labombard — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:55:21 +0000

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.

By: Neatoramawontsendmeapassword

Neatoramawontsendmeapassword — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:40:04 +0000

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.

By: Tim Giachetti

Tim Giachetti — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:04:56 +0000

Toooooo funny!
thnx Adam

By: Another_Jake

Another_Jake — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:55:13 +0000

“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!

By: rissu

rissu — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:34:59 +0000

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.

By: fluff

fluff — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:29:09 +0000

Definitely a PR stunt in my opinion.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:08:31 +0000

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

By: clinton robert labombard

clinton robert labombard — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:01:57 +0000

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

By: rissu

rissu — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:50:52 +0000

and if the gamers are female?

By: Evilbeagle

Evilbeagle — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:49:21 +0000

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

By: kid_icarus

kid_icarus — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:18:45 +0000

girlfriends scmirlfriends…..