| Mail |
You might also like: WoW Insider, Joystiq, and more

Reader Comments (3)

Posted: May 2nd 2009 2:20AM Jesspiper said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
I was wondering how long the typical American bigotry towards the Middle-East and its peoples would take to show up in the comments for this article. Not long obviously, as Mr. Digital and TheNilvarg have shown.

Reply

Posted: May 2nd 2009 2:58AM mysecretid said

  • 2.5 hearts
  • Report
What's genuinely sad is that the people posting negative comments apparently haven't even bothered to check the source article linked in the main report.

There are three sets of "before and after" images (the pic here is one of the "after" images) showing examples how female character clothing is being altered for the game. No one is wearing a burqa.

As has been said, this game is being targeted at progressive MENA societies, or portions thereof; the Islamist jihadist factions wouldn't play the regionalized version of Rappelz anymore than Fundamentalist pseudo-Christians would play that "satanic" World of WarCraft ...

But hey, as soon as people start throwing accusations of "liberal" (which I'm not) and "political correctness" (actually, we were talking about diversity and cultural parity) around as insults, it's pretty apparent that the posters came in with an agenda firmly in place, and don't want to be distracted by anything as troublesome as a civil discussion.
Reply

Posted: May 2nd 2009 7:38AM (Unverified) said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
Yes... It usually takes slightly less time than typical bigotry toward Americans.

Or it could be that those people are just [sic]morans, as exist everywhere.
Reply

Massively Speaking Podcast

Massively Speaking Episode 185: Bree-to-play

Latest episode: Tuesday, February 7th, 2012

Engadget

Joystiq

WoW

TUAW