empty_vessel: Just Hanging Out. (Talking)
Jimmy Novak ([personal profile] empty_vessel) wrote in [community profile] lostcarnival 2017-06-08 03:11 am (UTC)

"Sorry.. An over-emphasis on 'sex' or 'sexy'. Either to sell your product or cater to what you perceive as your target audience." Jimmy waves his free hand in an up-and-down gesture to indicate himself. "Take this model. I could have been anything. A table with a few bags of money on it, a chest sitting on the..." He stops, wincing at the implications there. "... Okay, let's move away from the too on the nose social commentary."

"But you see what I mean. The bonus reward object in the game represented by this model could have been anything, and the people that made this game opted to make it a sexy slave girl." Another sip of firebreath, and he shakes his head. "This model is pandering. Possibly with some copyright infringement, depending on how closely Star Wars is watching it's IPs." He shakes his head, getting back to his point. "Anyway. The point is, that making this reward object look like this is catering to one particular demographic... One particular group of people... But it's potentially losing a lot more."

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