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> they were sexually assaulted in game after past IRL experiences Sexually assaulted in-game? In WoW? Last time I checked, WoW does not have any player intera
by freeflight 5y ago
> they were sexually assaulted in game after past IRL experiences
Sexually assaulted in-game? In WoW?
Last time I checked, WoW does not have any player interactions, or assets, for the purpose of emulating sexual assault.
> When something like that has never happened to you it's really easy to just shrug it off as trivial or stupid. But, it really hurts when you've lived it.
Violence in general is even more common than sexual violence, leaving even more people traumatized.
Yet the vast majority of video games make that the sole mechanic of the player interacting with the in-game world.
People don't even have to interpret that into the sights/actions given, like the WoW sexual assault, it's openly and blatantly stated and endorsed.
Is that bad too? And why is that not worse than people imagining being sexually assaulted in a game, based on their very own, individual, trauma?
- foxyv 5y ago> Last time I checked, WoW does not have any player interactions, or assets, for the purpose of emulating sexual assault. They have been working on it lately. Similar to Meta. https://game-news24.com/2021/10/08/world-of-warcraft-emotes-were-used-to-harm-others-re-added-thousands-of-yenevils-others-apparently/ https://game-news24.com/2021/10/08/world-of-warcraft-emotes-...
- freeflight 5y agoThose interactions were not in the game to emulate sexual assault. But players using them in ways they were not originally intended is very much part of a game, it's very much a creative process that some players love going trough. Removing that because a scant minority of people allegedly can't differentiate virtual imagination from the real world, strikes me as a line of reasoning very similar to that of the likes of a Jack Thompson, which is not a good thing.