![]() This game makes it quite clear that you can be an asshole if you want, but you’ll have to face the consequences if you are. If you have people going around acting like assholes against the rules, then it’s perfectly reasonable to take action against them. Were it a game like ToonTown or Camelot, I’d agree with you - it would have been out of the place and the developers would have been rightfully turned to charcoal. “While I understand the reasoning behind your thoughts, Charybdis, I have to disagree with the idea that “because it would be real in the gameworld” means unappealing ideas should be implemented in a game.” In light of the numerous female players threatening to quit the game, Tepper decided to hold a chat for all players to see he asked a female player who stated that she would leave the game based on the actions of the event to join him in the chat while they debated the previous night’s event. Outrage from female players flooded the forums reaching sixteen pages of discussion before the forum administrator closed the topic. Players lined up,waiting a great deal of time, to trade with Malaki but when a female character’s turn to trade came, she was greeted with comments such as “Who is your master?”, refusing to trade good with her stating that he did not trade with “slaves.” As the event continued, female characters were continually treated to defamatory slurs and sexual discrimination, inciting a riot within the game. The event was known throughout the game as “The Trader Malaki” in which a character named Malaki traveled throughout Egypt trading rare goods. ![]() ( )]On Saturday, October 16, 2004, A Tale in the Desert, owned and operated by Andrew Tepper (also known as Teppy and Pharaoh, in-game) of eGenesis, sponsored and condoned a game-wide event that introduced sexual discrimination, upsetting a large portion of female players. ![]()
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