So, I am looking for some item to post an article on on an RPG Site I edit. I go browsing through various stuff and decide to check out the usual female gamer aspect. Somehow I missed this a couple of months ago.September20,2007is the release date.

Shanda Entertainment - one of Mainland China's heavy hitters in the gaming industry - announced that their subsidiary, Aurora Technology, has frozen accounts of male players who play as female characters in the King of the World MMORPG. Aurora stipulates that only female gamers can play female characters in the game, and it requires gamers who chose female characters to prove their biological sex with a webcam, according to the report.

Hmm So, it is not ok for a male to play a female. But is ok for a bunch of people to look at players on a webcam to ascertain they are female? How much will they have to reveal to prove it? (my husband can made a great torch singer one Halloween in one of my dresses) Who will be looking at the cam? What about underage girls and what ensures the security of those webcam broadcasts? Talk about your chances of exploitation and stupid rulings.

Anyone heard whether this is still a req?