Legend
09-25-2007, 11:12 PM
Aurora Technology, a subsidiary of Chinese entertainment company Shanda, has reportedly frozen the accounts of men playing female characters in its MMO King of the World. Players who choose female in-game avatars must prove their gender via webcam in order to be granted access to the game.
Setting aside for just a moment the fact that being able to play as a girl is a major reason many guys play MMOs in the first place, this procedure is a joke. The only thing it verifies is that the person with the account a) knows a female, and b) persuaded them to sit in front of a webcam for a few minutes.
The policy makes no practical sense and is an invasion of privacy to boot. Hopefully it will be short-lived.
http://blog.wired.com/
It is quite interesting that a company would go through all that just to prove people are the sex they are in real life in a game,they should just be happy people are buying their fucking product.You would never get away with any of that crap here.
Setting aside for just a moment the fact that being able to play as a girl is a major reason many guys play MMOs in the first place, this procedure is a joke. The only thing it verifies is that the person with the account a) knows a female, and b) persuaded them to sit in front of a webcam for a few minutes.
The policy makes no practical sense and is an invasion of privacy to boot. Hopefully it will be short-lived.
http://blog.wired.com/
It is quite interesting that a company would go through all that just to prove people are the sex they are in real life in a game,they should just be happy people are buying their fucking product.You would never get away with any of that crap here.