Chinese MMO Bans Males From Playing Female Characters

[floweray]

Players of the Chinese MMORPG, King of the World, may have found themselves unable to log into their accounts this past weekend. The game’s publisher, Aurora Technology, has apparently frozen the accounts of all male players choosing to play as a female characters. Now, only female players can play female characters, and they’re required to prove their gender via a webcam. Females wanting to play males are still allowed though.

I’m still waiting to hear a reason for this though. The best I can think of is that they wanted people playing to be sure that the people they were talking too were really the gender they claimed they were, but then why still allow females to play male character? Seems like a pretty easy way to drive off a lot of customers though. Besides essentially getting rid of any male wanting to play as a female character (a fairly large consumer base), what about all those people who had their characters really built up at the time of the ban? Are they just out of luck and have to start over? And the webcam thing really isn’t going to deter male players from playing as females. All you’d need is a female friend willing to sit in front of a computer for a couple minutes or a penchant for cross-dressing.

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[Xandax]

If truely interested in debating this issue, then please do not link to gold-selling sites.
As a consequence of that - the link have been removed, as we do not condone that kind of advertisements on the site, and neither in sites linked to.

Although I'm 95% sure this is a gold-selling advertisement (and that the OP will not post again) due to the "tactics used" by these - I'm letting the post stand, because it has relevance without the advertisement, although I've not heard that the content is actually true.
Link to a credible source would be advisable - and by credible I do not mean gold-selling sites.

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[DesR85]

I managed to find that article just today on Computer and Videogames. I'm just a little surprised that the thread starter reported this before other mainstream gaming sites did.

[Tenser]

They probably want to break a record in stupidity there.

Honestly, what comes next ? Old people arent allowed to play young, and vice versa ? Black people arent allowed to play white people, and vice versa ? Humans arent allowed to play elves or dwarves ?

Next thing will be our online characters have to be a 1:1 copy of our real selves.