Airbus Jr
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Indeed...even with those numbers still couldnt give a feck about what they do..so theres that i suppose...
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Kotaku: Lost Ark's Depiction Of Female Characters Feels A Decade Out Of Date
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Hari Seldon
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Lost Ark is exactly the type of GAAS game that both MS and Sony wish they could make but the focus groups would never allow.
Airbus Jr
Banned
And yet youre here and not there? Supp your story? Getting kicked there?
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Unknown Soldier
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They don't need to make anything, they can just purchase the rights to and rebrand a random KMMO like Amazon Games did. Lost Ark was released in Korea back in 2019, Amazon Games just bought the Western publishing rights.
Hari Seldon
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Yeah, but Amazon is only getting western publishing rights and not ALL the profits. Amazon's home grown GAAS New World, has already failed (althought it sold enough that it is likely profitable). Obviously everyone wants their own home grown gaas or they wouldn't be funding risky development of them and buying up studios.
DarkestHour
Banned
I've been here for a while.
Airbus Jr
Banned
Yeah im pretty sure youre a good fit on that other places btw
Youre carrying it here( the mentality from that place)
Im quoting this so everyone can see it ( your post)
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TheThreadsThatBindUs
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Well... er... maybe Kotaku, you know... it's just not for you?
You try to make a game to please everyone and you please no one. So you pick your niche.
Believe it or not, Kotaku, but there exists a niche of red-blooded adults that like tits and ass and appreciate slender feminine forms, exaggerated features and sexy gaits. If you're not part of that niche, play something else. It's not hard.
You try to make a game to please everyone and you please no one. So you pick your niche.
Believe it or not, Kotaku, but there exists a niche of red-blooded adults that like tits and ass and appreciate slender feminine forms, exaggerated features and sexy gaits. If you're not part of that niche, play something else. It's not hard.
Unknown Soldier
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There's almost no risk in just publishing though versus funding development. If Amazon Games feels a bit burned after the spectacular flameout of New World, they might be shifting to being more a publisher in order to limit risk. In the case of Lost Ark, it's common for people to flood into the latest KMMO that makes it out of Korea for a month and then forget about it shortly afterwards. KMMO's are as superficial and disposable as Kpop music, and I've been around for the Western launches of Aion, Tera, Blade&Soul, Black Desert, and now Lost Ark and nothing I'm seeing surprises me. 95% of players will be gone by next month.
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Hari Seldon
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Yeah there is no financial risk to publishing, but of course you lose out on the opportunity to make ALL the profits like you would if you made the game yourself. This is clearly the case as Sony just bought Bungie because they want a GAAS game.
I'd be curious if you compared Lost Ark to those games in more detail. I played Black Desert and thought it was somewhat decent but the grindy-ness of it was apparent early on. Lost Ark seems vastly improved by virtue of:
1. Launching in the more forgiving markets first (like Mobile games always launch in New Zealand or someshit) and iron out all of the bugs and build up content before the western launch.
2. Hide the grind behind a metric shit ton of content (due to the delayed western launch).
3. Tweak the GAAS systems for western sensibilities and don't just directly port the Korean system,
4. Absolutely F2P with no buy-in cost. (Black Desert and those other games had a buy-in cost IIRC)
FunkMiller
Banned
It’s a good job for Kotaku that Lost Ark has been such a failure, otherwise they might actually be completely out of touch with the majority of the gaming community.
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Mister Wolf
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Unfortunately for the author, the men that created the game and the majority of men that play the game, don't give a fuck.
Balducci30
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My gf legit runs like that lol
alabtrosMyster
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Decide what you want, the stunning and brave as above or the stunning and brave like below
BlvckFox
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Cant tell if youre being sarcastic..or
Boss Mog
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Lost Ark is made by Koreans and the women there embrace their femininity and actually enjoy being feminine and the ones who play games want their female characters to be pretty and cute and have feminine outfits. It's more for their benefit than for the "male gaze". These woke idiots will constantly champion foreign cultures who treat women like shit but the second a foreign culture favors thin, light skinned, feminine women, that's a huge problem for them apparently.
Korean singer Taeyeon just came out with a album that's currently topping the charts and in the title track's music video she literally looks like a Korean MMO character:
While 10-15 years ago it might not have been the case, today most of Taeyeon's fans are female.
Korean singer Taeyeon just came out with a album that's currently topping the charts and in the title track's music video she literally looks like a Korean MMO character:
While 10-15 years ago it might not have been the case, today most of Taeyeon's fans are female.
Dr. Claus
Banned
Ah yes, their community is truly better. Openly racist, openly transphobic. Actively celebrate peoples deaths, go on witch hunts on a near daily basis. Hate games, hate gamers. Truly a paradise /s
Fuck out of here with that shit, kid.
Tams
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Brian Ashcraft, or something, right?
I didn't mind the occasional article by him, and some were great deep dives, but he also did a lot of BuzzFeed like clickbait, and think I remember the anime/amazing Japan stuff starting to eclipse the games.
Anyway, I don't care for the site anymore.
thismeinteil
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And now...
The new angels are so fat you wonder if they have wings or they just eat wings.
And another angels that gets down to Earth, I mean Down's Syndrome.
#Diversity
First Victoria's Secret model with Down syndrome is Latina
Sofía Jirau, who is from Puerto Rico, made history after modeling for the brand's new Love Cloud Collection.www.nbcnews.com
Not going to lie. I'd smash that. But, it would be a respectable and inclusive smash.
strange headache
Banned
My god, Buckley still doing his web comic?
Unfortunately, neither his drawing skills, nor his humor have improved over the past decade and a half.
Dr. Claus
Banned
I am surprised as well, until I realized that MegaTokyo is still ongoing and *that* is as equal to if not worse of a comic. I used to read both as a kid and I wish I could get that time back.
p_xavier
Authorized Fister
I got better NPCs at work.
Not going to lie. I'd smash that. But, it would be a respectable and inclusive smash.
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daffyduck
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BusierDonkey
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I'd like to see more decade-old designs in the future.
I'm playing Final Fantasy X right now and you know I'm making sure to finish every fight with Lulu.
Everyone in the game has hexagonal shoulders but they didn't spare a single polygon where they counted.
I'm playing Final Fantasy X right now and you know I'm making sure to finish every fight with Lulu.
Everyone in the game has hexagonal shoulders but they didn't spare a single polygon where they counted.
Closer
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Some members here also go nuts over Era and also lurks there. There's that too.
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Halo is Back
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If Kotaku hates it, then I need to play it
Fess
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It’s kinda funny to think that it would trigger people to say that a perfectly normal person should want to do that for gore and wish they had a bigger screen for the bikinis.
Futaleufu
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NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
Biggest Trails Stan
Glad this is selling great. Seeing the salt from the Feminazis is funny to watch
Airbus Jr
Banned
Thats the way women walk maybe you should learn some basic human anatomy
Why Do Women's Hips Sway When They Walk? — DocUnlock.org
Subscribe to the DocUnlock YouTube Channel to be notified when we release a new video! — Transcript Regardless of culture, the sway of the hips is associated with beauty and femininity. If you look closely at the woman in the yellow dress, you’ll see that the when her right foot leads forward he
www.docunlock.org
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Sinthor
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Lost Ark's Depiction Of Female Characters Feels A Decade Out Of Date
The free-to-play action MMORPG forces women to wear heels and has gender-locked classeskotaku.com
I'm sooo tired of this shit. Yes, a lot of female characters in games are 'sexualized' or whatever you want to call it. They are made to look hot. WHY? Because male gamers of a certain persuasion are appreciative of that. Male characters are ALSO 'sexualized.' I mean, the average guy is hardly a 6'5" 280 lb with 2% body fat wearing tank tops or armor that show off the chest and arms, etc. Not to mention the face and chin! Why? Because some gamers appreciate seeing studly MALE characters in their games. So what? GET OVER IT, PEOPLE! Humans in general are attracted to some common features of both males and females, so characters will tend to exaggerate or highlight those features. It's part of marketing and social science. People do NOT usually want to play characters that look like themselves. Games are about escapism. Escaping from reality thru a fantasy role play experience. So that's how things are. DEAL WITH IT.
Sheesh...the agony and constant whining about this sort of thing, especially from the 'video game press' is beyond old at this point. Makes me wish that every game was like Bayonetta just so the freaks would go ahead and have their strokes and get out of our hair about the whole thing!
Nydus
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TBH sometimes I don't like the revealing outfits cause they just don't look badass. More like Barbies day on the beach. Can't remember but there was another MMO where I changed gender after a while cause the melee class I was playing was just wearing kinis while the males where walking tanks. It looked so much cooler. And normally I prefer playing female.
On caster classes the sexy outfits look much better and more thematic. There it was kinda the reversal and males looked like crossdressers.
And the walking is just anime lol. although my wife walked a bit like this when she was younger (that changed after having two kids lol).
On caster classes the sexy outfits look much better and more thematic. There it was kinda the reversal and males looked like crossdressers.
And the walking is just anime lol. although my wife walked a bit like this when she was younger (that changed after having two kids lol).
Rhazer Fusion
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Don’t they have anything better to do? This is why imho, certain regions have much more interesting and better designs than others. They aren’t afraid to think outside the box and take risks. Basically, if it isn’t the generic T-shirt/tank top, jeans combo with the short, one-side shaved hair woman or the female that isn’t covered from head to toe, it’s getting ridiculed by these “journalists”.
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Rhazer Fusion
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Exactly.
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Lost Ark's Depiction Of Female Characters Feels A Decade Out Of Date
The free-to-play action MMORPG forces women to wear heels and has gender-locked classes
kotaku.com
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It sounds like "I'm allowed to have fun with games you shouldn't have fun with".
1.5M players, how many of them are from ERA and Kotaku?
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BlvckFox
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Jesus, you weren’t being sarcastic. Relax soldier, my post was not that serious.Thats the way women walk maybe you should learn some basic human anatomy
Why Do Women's Hips Sway When They Walk? — DocUnlock.org
Subscribe to the DocUnlock YouTube Channel to be notified when we release a new video! — Transcript Regardless of culture, the sway of the hips is associated with beauty and femininity. If you look closely at the woman in the yellow dress, you’ll see that the when her right foot leads forward he
winjer
Member
It's almost refreshing to see a country where women are women (XX), and can act as feminine as they want to.
Where they don't pander to identity politics and censorship.
NikuNashi
Member
Hey indie dev making a retro style game, stop!!! you are 10 years out of date, put down those pixels, don't you know you have to make the exact game as everyone else now, there is no room for diversity.
Quick let's cancel that's shredders revenge, you are sooooo out of date!.
Quick let's cancel that's shredders revenge, you are sooooo out of date!.
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Swift_Star
Banned
Irrelevant with 1MM+ active players?
Gamezone
Gold Member
Era would ban you.
sigmaZ
Member
Perhaps they need more DEDOTADED WAM per server.
Fess
Member
Perfection.
And to add to that. People should try asking their children what they prefer, let them be there creating a character. I guarantee that it would show that young boys generally speaking likes to play as big and strong muscle men and girls likes to play as beautiful feminine women. The everyday Joe/Jane is seen as incredibly boring.
At what point does a person start preferring to play as an everyday skinny or fat man without muscles or everyday woman without curves in pants and a leather jacket? I have no idea. I’ve never reached that point. Maybe it happens when I get older, I’m only 45.
Krappadizzle
Member
Hey Kotaku:
BacklashWave534
Member
Please stop mentioning this BS. Every time you give these urinalists attention they get more clicks on their site. Just ignore them and they will disappear.
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