Gender-bending now a bannable offense – In China
Posted by: Jaradcel from www.gx.com.sg
Big Brother is watching you, and he’s now making sure you don’t lie (or live out your fantasies or… whatever) in MMO’s. China MMO company Aurora Technology has announced that players will now have to create and play characters based strictly on their real-life sex in the MMO game King of the World.
How do they hope to enforce the law? You’ll have to get yourself ID’ed with a webcam shot of yourself while playing. Apparently, this news is almost a month old now, but has only recently come to our attention as well. Oddly enough, according to GamesPolitics.com, the ruling only seems to be aimed at men who play as women, but not vice versa.
The more worrying news is that Aurora is a subsidiary of Shanda, whose name should be more familiar to people. They publish Aion, D&D Online and Company of Heroes Online in China. Could such a thing become mandatory? There are plenty of people out there who are men but play female characters (My guild alone easily numbers in the good dozen or so who do just that) but that doesn’t mean we’re all secretly homosexual, as Pacific Epoch suggests in an article based on the news.
Unless, of course, you’re the guy below.
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