At 1:56, this woman questions blizzard about if they plan on having less sexualized female characters. Now here is the problem. A lot of women like skimpy mogs and sexualized female characters. We have plenty of sexualized male characters in skimpy mogs too. Personally I think this question was rather unfair because.
- If Blizzards says they have no problem with it they risk getting canceled.
- Many women like I said don’t mind this.
- Blizzard has already censored several female characters like sylvanas in the past who had revealing outfits.
Seriously. Have these people ever been to goldshire? I can make the case that men are more sexualized in some ways. Cause after all. Least they can walk around topless.
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I don’t like when skimpiness messes up Class fantasy.
A paladin dosen’t go around semi-naked. But a druid, yes, warriors? Probably. Sacers? no, heck no. Maybe if they are troll or orcish.
Other than that I don’t take offesen seign random player going full on skimpy, I can live with it. The problem it’s no that.
I think that she, just wants Women character that aren’t conventionally atractive, that are more like probably ashvanes and the Kultiran women. Or maybe undead that looks actually not sexy.
But on either case, wow has a lot of variety, but only gives spotlight to what most people cosinder attractive.
But that has improved since that BLizzcon. That’s true, and I think that is good step on the rigth direction.
We can have skimpy and non-skimpy as long as those things aren’t what defines the character, and we need to remember that not all people are victoria secret’s models, from time to time.
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Honestly, I can’t believe there is some females out there that would take a video game a little too serious. Like seriously, it is a video game. If it is too graphical for them, then they shouldn’t be playing it. Same goes with males and male characters.
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sexualization in video games, movies, comics, advertising and just in the world has been around since the beginning of mankind.
there’s nothing wrong with it at…if it bothers you then don’t pay attention to it or where a mog that doesn’t over sexualize your character. Or take a stronger stance and cancel your sub.
Maybe I’m talking from a guys perspective but I don’t really care when men are sexualize either…I personally consider these first world problems.
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Its the reactions and actions of reality that need to change. There are questionable things in-game that are changing, but I don’t think skimpy wear needs to be one. Its a touchy subject.
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I think that games like FF14 do far worse even sexualizing children but In general I think it’s really hurtful and harmful to women even if they don’t know it according to a Stanford Sri at least.
Wow is actually the least guilty of all the mmorpgs in this respect.
news.stanford.edu/news/2013/october/virtual-female-avatars-100913.html
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You’ve said this is more than one thread now, and it’s completely false.
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I personally find the question to be a bit nonsensical. I’m sure people will argue otherwise, but we have giant cow women, small gnome women with oversized heads, buff women in the form of orcs and lanky types such as trolls. And we’ve had all of these types of women since the game launched.
I feel the question didn’t make much sense. None of the NPC’s are often scantily clad either. You have some exceptions, of course, like Alexstrasza - but the woman’s a dragon queen. I dunno. That’s just my take.
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I think it’s a weird thing to get upset about. I don’t think WoW’s even that big on it, it seems pretty tame to me. There’s other games that go much more all in on the ecchi. Games themselves are idealistic anyways, not realistic. I don’t know what they expect.
Sexualization itself, of guys and girls, isn’t a bad thing though. It depends how it’s done. But it’s always existed and obviously many people do enjoy it. And again WoW’s pretty mellow. There’s very few skimpy armor sets and once in awhile you might see a girl NPC’s midriff. By all means alert the church elders.
I could see it as an issue if it was all over the place in a rated T game, but it’s not. To me it seems like one of those subjects that now you’re going too far over a minor thing and censoring out fun from the game and life. You’re being a Karen. 
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I’ve said it a hundred times before, I’ll say it again:
Covering up NPCs is the last thing they should do. It screams “she was asking for it” indirectly and “cover up the women, the boys can’t control themselves” directly.
Would be the dumbest possible reaction.
Sincerely,
A woman
PS: Have yet to meet a woman who thinks it wouldn’t send the wrong signal entirely.
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There’s a female human paladin I’ve seen on my server group going around in skimpy plate and bare feet.
Just doesn’t feel very “paladinish” to me.
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It’s not false. Other people are saying it to on this forum and on others. They have avatars that look like children in bikinis. That’s a fact.
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Paladins aren’t real. No one owes you any sort of adherence to your own personal fantasy tropes.
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They made Teela look like a man in the Master’s of the Universe disaster on Netflix, so yes… Nothing is safe anymore… Women’s Rights are slowly being eroded away by SJW culture, in the dark, right under our noses. If I was a woman, I’d be pretty annoyed…
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Theres a place in fantasy for a little bit of everything. Women wearing giant bulky armor coming at you with a huge ax. Women wearing tight clothes coming at you with daggers. Everything in between.
At the end of the day though sex sells and when your product is aimed at young men its a sure fire way to get their attention so the half dressed women running around the battlefield isnt going anywhere anytime soon.
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“Covering up the women” is what Middle Eastern governments did. It’s not a good look for Blizzard to follow their example.
Tmog is the answer. We have the options to be as skimpy or modest as we want.
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I just want to play a game. I don’t give a seconds thought to what some pixel character is wearing.
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Never said they do. Just that it didn’t suit my taste.
Nowhere did I demand that my taste be enforced.
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You need to pick a target audience and embrace it 100%. Middle of the road gets you attacked from both sides now.
I think woke and censor culture DESTROYED the videogame industry.
Completely destroyed it and made it unredeemable.
These people pretend they like videogames just to poison it with their BS.
Soon Wow’s cast will be 90% strong wymin and LGBTQASDFG characters.
The gameplay will remain this chorefest of a grind riddled with unwanted systems and terrible gearing too.
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