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Scarlet Blade: Open Beta Launches
SBFord
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Aeria Games has announced that its female only M-rated MMO, Scarlet Blade, has officially launched into open beta status. According to the dev team, closed beta players created over 300,000 characters and logged a collective total of one million hours of game play during the two week event.
“This is a great milestone for Aeria,” said Lan Hoang, founder and CEO of Aeria Games. “Scarlet Blade’s success is a perfect example of how far the company has come since we began in 2006. The combination of the game’s unique visual style and cutting-edge PvP features has already created a massive fan base, and this is now poised to be our most popular title for the foreseeable future.”
Head to the Scarlet Blade site to get started.
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I guess this is what it comes to if all the other games you publish are mediocre at best.
I know MMORPG.com needs to generate an income as much as Aeria Games does, but both parties should be disgusted with supporting this kind of game development. It's not what MMO's or games in general need.
Try getting customers by creating a game that's worth playing, not by using pathetic marketing tactics like this.
Which are very tame compared to Age of Conans...funny how people didnt rip into that game for its BOOBS and TEETS just because it wasnt anime based while calling everyone remotely interested in it a bunch of perverts...double standard much?
Hmm, interesting point, but AoC feels more like an accurate portrayal of the world described in the books, where sexuality was one aspect of a larger, gritty and violent world. Whereas this game looks like the world was literally built around T&A.
I see, so T&A is OK if it makes sense....Well, turns out the game does have a story, and a decent one at that and it actually explains why it is what it is and it does so in a comedic way.
So now, lets talk Tera shall we, a game that had to be changed in the west for reasons that fit right in with this thread, in the west VIOLENCE = GOOD, SEXUALITY = BAD.
See above.
Person 1 "Hey did you just decapitate that guy?"
Person 2 "Yeah!"
Person 1 "Awesome!". "Hey wait, I see side boob...thats going too far! No woman would EVER wear anything like that if she was a professional fighter, she is nothing but a sexual object"
Neither says a thing about the Barbarian male wearing nothing but a loincloth....covered in blood standing over mangled bodies.
lol, I love this. Thank you for the chuckle, I totally agree with you
Gotta love the logical fallacy of "you have no problem with violence therefore your issues with sex are invalid." It's a universal fallback for people with nothing to contribute to the discussion.
This is hilarious but true.The thing that amuses me is that most early teen's have seen much worse than this game as far as nudity/sexuality.Hello Hbo/Showtime and all the internet anime site's.This game is actually tame compared to other outlet's.
I guess more realistic nudity/sexuality is ok,but anime (which isn't real and really just a cartoon)is somehow going to far?Funny how that work's.
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Almost as much as the logical fallacy that anime is sexual and that an anime character can be a victim of sexual objectification...
As some people here have correctly pointed out, this game is no more risque than various others, and if this video game were a movie it wouldn't even be worthy of an "R" rating. The only reason it has even become a mentionable issue is that 1) it is a video game and the public at large holds a double standard when it comes to video games VS other forms for entertainment and 2) it advertises based on its exaggerated and comical sexuality rather than hyper-violence, which hypocrites love to complain about, especially in the US. "Sexuality = bad Violence = good" is truly the mindset of so many sadly.
Anyway, the game itself isn't a bad f2p game, but the gameplay and mechanics do little to differentiate themselves from the dozens and dozens of other f2p MMO"s that seem to come out daily. Still, if you are looking for a new f2p MMO to play around with and don't have any expectations for revolutionary gameplay concepts, Scarlet Blade isn't a bad choice.
If you don't know what a logical fallacy is, I suggest you don't try and use it in a sentence.
Not necessarily. An item mall game needs people to hang around for long enough to buy stuff from the item mall in order to make money. Just getting a bunch of attention and a bunch of people to download and play the game briefly isn't enough if you can't convert a substantial fraction of them into paying customers.
If all that you're selling is sex, then you'll get the attention of a lot of people for a short period of time, but not necessarily a long period of time. Porn movies are far less likely to have viewers want to watch the whole thing to see how it ends than other types of movies that actually try to have a compelling plot.
There's also the economic argument that if there were a ton of money to be made by selling games like this, we'd probably see a lot more of them. Porn is far more prevalent in a number of other types of media. Aeria is even getting a lot of publicity precisely because this is unusual for an MMORPG; porn in other types of media commonly doesn't have that marketing advantage.