Curse

Spooky · Mar 21, 2005, 02:34 PM // 14:34

Please don't post screenshots that abuse various emotes to simulate characters engaging in sexual activities. It's kind of tacky, and we are a general audience site... let's keep it clean, folks.

Skult · Mar 21, 2005, 05:39 PM // 17:39

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Originally Posted by Spooky

Please don't post screenshots that abuse various emotes to simulate characters engaging in sexual activities. It's kind of tacky, and we are a general audience site... let's keep it clean, folks.

I am glad I got some attention but I must admit I am a little concerned about the censorship.

I can appreciate what you are saying. And I apologize for my image headings (which we not vulgar but made a point) but I witnessed this type of simulated sexual activities behavior constantly through out the weekend. And I feel this should be made public and that the Dev team be notified.

I did not code the dancing emotes and "Naked Dance" Parties were a common occurrence during the BWE (there is even a thread below with that heading showing a picture of two females dancing together in their underwear) and frankly speaking; if the suggestive nature of these emote are subject to abuse by simulating characters engaging in sexual activities is a concern, then I would have to say that the GW Dev team needs to be made aware of what the "general audience" is doing with their game and I am sure there are lots of kids (and adults) who discovered GW's virtual sex through their emotes...

Or on a more sinister side: Was the sexually suggestive dance emotes a deliberate attempt by the Dev team to embeded subliminal sexual elements in order to make the game more appealing, especially to the younger audience? I think so! Lets face facts here: The oversized breasts and scantly dressed female player characters and NPCs that saturate PC and video games is not an oversight and it appears that Guild Wars has taken it to a new level...

EDIT: I just looked through the threads and many of them feature Naked Dance party screens of women in their underwear... were these ss posted for the aesthetics of the composition or for the sexually suggestive nature... I think the answer is an obvious one. Therefore, I would to repost my screens without the headings this time and let the viewers make their own interpolations. In addition to that, I would like to repost my screen shots without the headings to support my concerns.

Spooky · Mar 21, 2005, 07:11 PM // 19:11

This wasn't meant to single anyone out. There were several other threads that were over the top that are also gone. And if I missed a few, it's most likely because I went to sleep shortly afterwards.

I'm sorry that you feel that is censorship, but if people are interested in flagrant displays of an overtly sexual nature, the internet has an abundance of pornography sites .. I don't want it to be this site. I can understand your concerns of these things being implemented in the game, and indeed, some of the dances are a bit too much .. but you need not post them for the sake of proving a point. I obviously can't say anything on the matter because of the NDA, except to say that emote abuse is a known issue and has come up more than once.