Female Armors

by Evangel Thu Feb 18, 2010 8:00 am

Since I can't post anything like this on AEF without getting flamed, I figured I would post a thread about this here.

Topic: Female Armors, Burlesque and Unnecessary Skin

So yeah, do you think that female armors in AQW are lewd/ offensive/ etc, etc...? Personally, for a kids game, I think some are. Almost every female armor has skin showing on the thighs and cleavage showing. Why can't any modest dresses be drawn, you know?

The base tier classes and secondary tier classes: http://yfrog.com/1s86684011p

Well, discuss.

by Guest Thu Feb 18, 2010 8:12 am

Rofl. Crystal will be all over this topic in a few seconds.

Anyway, yeah, alot unnecessary skin being shown, my guess is that AE either can't control their hormones (Thats right J6, I'm talking to you) or... Er... Not many other reasonable theories. And yes, it is a tad strong for a kids game (No, not a kids card game, Abridged Fans).

by Evangel Thu Feb 18, 2010 8:18 am

Well, Cysero has stated that [basically] the female armors are designed with the target demographic in mind: young teenage boys.

Rofl. Crystal will be all over this topic in a few seconds.

This is one of my goals, since this mainly concerns female players who actually play as female characters.

by **Icey** Thu Feb 18, 2010 8:21 am

Im not going to say that the armors are offensive because some girls like them, like Crystal, but I do think there needs to be way more veriety, seriously AE needs to have more variation on them.

by Crystal Lion Thu Feb 18, 2010 8:29 am

The reason why AQW armor is almost always burlesque is because Miltonius is not skilled enough to draw less revealing clothes, and doesn't want to learn how to; since burlesque rakes in the fans!

AE should hire someone else with skill and a lower tendency to force players into burlesque, otherwise, AQW will become another cliche online game with forced revealing clothes, like Perfect World and Ragnarok.

by Evangel Thu Feb 18, 2010 8:31 am

What's offensive and what isn't is really up to female opinion. I just think some of the skin showing on some armors is unnecessary. For example, Shadowslayer X; Big boobs, defined cleavage, used to have a patch of skin showing on the leg, Cysero's latest Twitpic of her had that spot colored in.

I don't think it is the artist's fault. I think it is the marketing strategy that involves revealing clothes to draw in more players.

by Guest Thu Feb 18, 2010 8:45 am

Update: Yeah, just saw Cys's tweet on Shadow Slayer X. Honestly Milt... Do you have to reveal all of that? Yeah, it's official. AE is being manipulated by their hormones.

by Crystal Lion Thu Feb 18, 2010 8:48 am

More like Milt's got them under his thumb so that he can make sure all of AQW's armor is nothing but burlesque on a woman! Is it possible that he's such a great hypnotist that almost no one can take him down from his high horse?

by Peregrine Thu Feb 18, 2010 8:50 am

A friend of mine found a porn flash done by our very own Miltonius whilst browsing yonder Internets.

So yeah. I'mma agree in full with Crystal.

Anyway. Fact of the matter is every up and coming game needs some fan service so that people don't just play WoW instead, and as everyone knows, females are the first to be used as fan service. It's because that's how society rolls.

by Guest Thu Feb 18, 2010 8:53 am

...Milt... What the...

All in favor of sending a letter to AE?

by **Icey** Thu Feb 18, 2010 8:57 am

If we do send a letter, try to make seem professional though, okay.

by Crystal Lion Thu Feb 18, 2010 8:58 am

Yes! And my story, while you're at it!

by **Charon** Thu Feb 18, 2010 8:59 am

Crystal Lion wrote:The reason why AQW armor is almost always burlesque is because Miltonius is not skilled enough to draw less revealing clothes, and doesn't want to learn how to; since burlesque rakes in the fans!

AE should hire someone else with skill and a lower tendency to force players into burlesque, otherwise, AQW will become another cliche online game with forced revealing clothes, like Perfect World and Ragnarok.

Actually, it has nothing to do with Miltons skill. He is an extremely talented artist who, sadly, has a tendency towards drawing revealing women. While I don't really agree with the way he does his armors... Let's just all be glad we haven't seen anything worse.

by **Erik** Thu Feb 18, 2010 9:00 am

Personally... I don't see the skin showing as "arousing" in any way, and most other teen guys probably don't also. Milt is just... strange. The legs should be covered, but the belief is probably that women never wore armor back when armor was worn, because they didn't fight back then. So... there is no definite look for a women's armor. Therefore, they can interpret it however they like.

by Guest Thu Feb 18, 2010 9:01 am

Alright, I'll send an e-mail within 2-4 days, with all the signatures of all that agreed.to AE. Hopefully, we can stop this.

by Peregrine Thu Feb 18, 2010 9:01 am

All in favor of sending a letter to AE?

And what is it that you intend to say in such a letter?

They're not going to take action. Not only do we not have any evidence that it was him whatsoever, but I seriously doubt they'll reprimand him for his actions on adult websites like the one in question.

by Guest Thu Feb 18, 2010 9:03 am

Still, a flash animated porno? What kind of interests does this guy have!? Does AE really need a perverted artist to design everything?

by Crystal Lion Thu Feb 18, 2010 9:06 am

And worse off, in the porno, he made a female double of Disney's Mowgli of the Jungle Book, and short-horned versions of Twileks.

by Evangel Thu Feb 18, 2010 9:24 am

O.K. this isn't an artist flame-fest. Back to the real problem. Miltonius isn't at fault, he gets told what to draw and how to draw it, sometimes.

by **Icey** Thu Feb 18, 2010 9:26 am

Thank you Evan, Please dont let this thread get out of hand or I will have to lock it. Keep it mostly PG rated.

by Crystal Lion Thu Feb 18, 2010 9:27 am

But who else is asking him to draw burlesque?

by Evangel Thu Feb 18, 2010 9:29 am

Cysero heads AQW, so I would assume him. I mean, he IS the one who made the post about how AQW "needed" burlesque armors to draw in players.

by Crystal Lion Thu Feb 18, 2010 9:42 am

Didn't he also say he'd try to make AQW a bit less burlesque, too?

by Peregrine Thu Feb 18, 2010 9:44 am

I don't agree with Cysero, but I do see where he drew that conclusion from.

As of right now, the game has no stats (outside PTR), no raids, etc. It's lacking quite a number of the things that make an MMO an MMO.

All the weapons do approximately the same damage and each class has about four skills. That means you have four buttons to click while killing things. It gets boring after a while.

The main story can be summed up in about a paragraph.

It's ~$50-60 dollars a year to get full benefits, which amounts to better looking items that do more damage, but all still in approximately the same amounts.

In short, AQW isn't developed enough yet to attract players.

But like I said, revealing female outfits isn't the way to go about fixing this.

by Crystal Lion Thu Feb 18, 2010 9:54 am

Pere's right. Relying only on burlesque to attract players is going end up turning off players who are fed up with the compulsory revealing clothes cliche, and reinforce the stereotype that games must have burlesque to even remotely be called a game.

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