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Personally I think they should've instead added erotica photos for all the NPCs to balance it out, but that's just me 🤷

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[–] BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Such a dumb move. This won't help sales, but it certainly will hurt them (though, to be fair, probably not much). Sex sells. And the people who are offended by this wouldn't have bought the game in the first place.

I'm just so annoyed by this recent resurgence of Puritan-esque prudishness. Humans are sexual beings! We shouldn't be ashamed of or offended by sexuality; we should embrace it! And if people are worried about unequal representation, the solution is simple: put sexy men in the game, too, and maybe an option for players to toggle either. Everybody wins.

[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 17 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Sure, but promoting the explicit sexual exploitation of women doesn't seem to be the answer.

Like, maybe not pushing for taking sexually explicit photos of un-consenting persons?

One of these categories was Erotica, which gave players PP for taking photos of women’s cleavage, underwear or any other revealing clothing.

If you dont want to buy the game without that, then you don't want to buy the game, you want to buy Girls Gone Wild.

[–] ShroudedScribe@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I think the people arguing for this don't understand the full context. You get extra points for taking the equivalent of upskirt photos of women who are being attacked by or in fear of being attacked by zombies. It's textbook exploitation.

I can't immediately think of a context where it would be better, but... it isn't this.

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