A friend of mine, who is a careful mother of 2 children, recently complained to me about the MMO Conquer Online. She let her kids play the game and thought the game was fine for children until one day she logged on the homepage of the game - co.91.com, and found a picture of a girl with her legs opened wide.

When I saw the picture she mentioned, I thought she was a bit over-protective, like other parents. Nowadays kids know far more than their parents think they do. Girls with miniskirts on the street are 10 times more seductive than the picture in question, no need to mention other mediums like TV and movies, which are all full of sex and violence.

On the other hand, I have to admit that sex and violence do sell well, and have become essential elements for game developers to hook gamers. Just Look at how Age of Conan hyped about female characters' breast sizes, and girls with ridiculously bouncy boobs in Blade & Soul. How can someone with such cumbersome assets possibly heave them around in melee combat?

For Conquer Online, actually its character design was quite conservative. But now the developer started to follow the west and Korean counterparts' step. The new profession Ninja's design is much bolder than before. Anyway, sex sells, especially in a market which is mainly consist of male adolescents.

In the end, don't blame the game companies for losing their professional ethics. They just feed their customers what they desire. The true is that we can hardly find an "innocent" medium for kids now.

WoW will be huge for years to come, even if it ever loses a little steam. WotLK will bring back and introduce several players. When the graphics start to look really dated, then they will update them ala Everquest. They will keep bringing out expansions after WotLK and I don't see WoW dying for a long long time. I like WoW and Blizzard so I think this is great!covertgamer78

yep, Blz can continue to feed players with extra expansion, even the whole story is ended. But that can't change the gameplay very much, just endless dungeons. Old players will get bored eventually and new players will be hooked by that new game. That is the fate of WOW. :twisted:

I dont mean WOW will die next week. I just try to figure out the flaw of the most successful MMO so far. Currently Blz just use new dungeons and new gears to hook players. After the last expansion, as there is no point to add content, WOW will start to go downwad eventually.