Massively multiplayer online... boobs?

Wow, you must be a chick. Seriouslt though.... I don't know a red blooded male that wouldn't take a double looks at those things if they were real.

It's in our blood to appreciate the opposite sex.

I'm a chick and I took a double take. I think we can all appreciate breasts and all of their sizes, shapes, colours and buoyancy... cept the obviously fake ones -.-

I'm a girl (well, a woman really, I am 30) and I think those boobs are quite awesome. The female body is a beautiful thing. :) I'm probably even more appreciative of pixelated breasts than my boyfriend, so I don't think it's fair to just assume the use of breasts in games is purely done to appeal to males.

Lol, no offense but yes, it is done to appeal to males. They don't make big surging breasts to appeal to other females. I don't judge you or what you find sexually attractive, but I am not the least bit attracted to other women and to see these goofy looking overly huge malformed breasts just makes me want to puke. I don't even understand how a guy could look at that and like it, it's not nice shaped, it's nasty, it would have to be super fake to exist in real - hurt like crazy to carry around, and sag to the floor like what a water balloon looks like when filling it up when they got older. You may as well just get a blow up doll if you find that ugly fake stuff attractive.

Personally I think that realness is making a comeback and balloon chests are out. I guess if you're older you don't really understand that yet :D

What's the worst is trying to gauge what the average female thinks of something when all the "guys playing girls" come and respond to it. It skews the data.

Well, I'm male, married with children, etc., and I think the image accompanying this massively article just looks really ... uncomfortable and stupid. It blares the message "trashy/seedy" to me and is a complete turn off.

Believe it or not, some hetero males prefer "classy sexy" to "slutty sexy", and I happen to be one of them. And, yes, there is a difference.

Sure, sex appeal helps to sell games, but I always thought the Guild Wars box-cover gals, for example, were more of a class act than some of the other pictures accompanying the Weathers article because of what they *didn't* show.

The "Playboy bunny" image, in particular, just makes me lol every time I see it. It is so completely absurd. Sadly, it also "trashifies" everything it is associated with -- not only Perfect World but also mmorpg, where it is now prominently displayed.

Just my 2¢.

The article, however, was quite entertaining.

Sorry but I don't show my crotch around to everyone.
I'm a woman for sure, I don't have to prove that to anyone. And I like breasts, I'm not sappho, and maybe I've been in male dominated mediums for too long, but there, I do.

I won't go as far to say as seeing pixelated boobage would make me puke (grow a nut already) and the only thing wrong about the ones illustrated above is that they are too big for her frame. Then again if you draw a woman with realistic chest depth and frame for larger breasts you'll have guys clamoring over how unreal they are as well just because they don't look like their girlfriend/wife and the handful of boobs they actually saw. Give me a break.

lol, so true.

I always liked to think that this type of advertising is below most people... but, sadly, this story is the most read story on the site right now. >.>

Geez, I wonder why?

Jeez! I dunno but you've put a really nice artwor along with your article so you have some good eyes to spot a nice pair of breasts. ;)

This was a funny article and Sanya's article is also funny.
And since the demographic of this site is the 18-34 demographic ofcourse that picture would atract a lot of viewers.

I like the small detail that the Tags of this article have 4 different terms for breasts.
Men are men, there's a reason for "sex" being the most looked after word in the Internet.
I think this small machinima from WoW sums up this debate really well for both genders:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpdCJKPHzh8

:D

With that said, i don't know why the marketing dudes don't emphasize the booty a bit more.

Colin, how many of those hits come from search engine referrals due to the rather heavily biased tags in the article? :-)

And more to the topic - yeah, sex sells and we're buying - even after having done research about the games, their features combined with my old ripe age (the 35-45 bracket) I sometimes find myself gravitating towards the "prettier" boxes on the shelves - the female body is beautiful, so call me a stereotypical dirty old man, but I don't really care :-)

However I think the "predominantly male 18-25" game consuming category isn't the main focus anymore, so things might be changing soon, maybe we'll soon start getting musculous hunks in box covers to attract the female crowd.

To be fair it's still on the front page too, and until this morning it was showing up on five-link RSS feeds.

But yeah, the picture IS eyecatching, I won't deny it.

@sgtbaker

Actually, it's just our standard reader base. Google still has their usual amount of referrals, although I'm sure that will change once the spider gets ahold of us. :)