Apparently someone equipped a bop gun and dropped the bomb on Sword of the New World (pixellated slightly NSFW shots).
(As seen on Massively, the new MMO news blog from Joystiq which posts about 40 news stories an hour.)
How Am I Wasting My Time?
#1 by TPRJones on November 3rd, 2007
I don’t know, to me that looks a lot like someone dropped some SL characters into the screenshots.
#2 by Steven "PlayNoEvil" Davis on November 3rd, 2007
This may be tied to a problem that was identified earlier in October with the game’s launch by The9 in China:
http://www.redlinechina.com/main/?q=node/440
#3 by Phillip Wessels on November 3rd, 2007
I find it suspicious that I could only find 3 screenshots of the nudity. Surely players would take advantage of the situation more than that!!
The models are extremely detailed though, if that’s for real. I’m wondering what was going through the mind of the developers… possibly more than just perversion? That would be interesting… I myself believe nudity in an MMO that’s not a sex game would be a step forward for the industry. *shrug*
As a side note, the graphics of the game are beautiful, but I couldn’t enjoy the gameplay.
#4 by Freakazoid on November 3rd, 2007
It wouldn’t suprise me that asian developers would draw nude models of their avatars and leave them in the game somehow, but those look very staged. I’m going to need to see an actual in-game screenshot, UI and all, before I can believe this.
#5 by Willias on November 3rd, 2007
Pretty sure it’s staged. If the character models were indeed naked, the scout’s (the one with grey hair) hair would be much shorter.
#6 by Jeff Freeman on November 4th, 2007
I played it. Didn’t see any nudity.
That first quest was a killer. You rescue a little girl in the dungeon, and then everything in the whole freaking dungeon attacks you.
I wasn’t paying attention to what the NPCs were saying though, so I might have missed some critical bit of info.
Pretty funny.
What’s an IPF file? Could just look at the char_textture.ipf file if I knew what that was…
#7 by hellfire on November 4th, 2007
Honestly, I just don’t get this stuff.
YOU ARE ON THE GOD DAMNED INTERNET.
Typing something completely non-sexual into Google STILL has a 50-50 shot of producing tits and/or cock. Hell, something non-sexual may even have a higher percentage these days. I’m not going to research it, I can tell you that much.
I just don’t understand how people can be that starved for nipples…
#8 by TPRJones on November 4th, 2007
There’s no such thing as too many nipples.
Well, I mean, two is good for one person. I’m thinking more in the global sense.
#9 by Serpilian on November 5th, 2007
Ahh, the Nude Bomb. Maxwell Smart at his best. I need to find that movie again.
#10 by Brask Mumei on November 5th, 2007
No need to do any research to support your random assertions, hellfire. I’ll do it for you.
Doing the following random searches, both image and normal search, and scanning the first page for tits and/or cock:
fiber: No porn
silver: No porn
key: No porn
ball: No porn (!!)
lake: No porn
I’m not a statistician, but I’ll hazard a guess that this isn’t supporting your 50/50 claim.
#11 by Nicademus on November 5th, 2007
Because there isn’t enough actual live porn on the internets, so it totally makes sense to care about nekkid computer characters.
#12 by BruceR on November 5th, 2007
Oh, baby, I want to put my ball key in your silver fiber lake….
There, try again. :–)
#13 by hellfire on November 5th, 2007
“silver” + “key” =
http://www.silverkey.org/old/default.htm
PORNOGRAPHY!
“lake” + “ball” =
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=990CE3D61631E233A25755C0A96F9C946997D6CF
GAY PORNOGRAPH!
That’s 100%!!