How to make this game incredibly successful

[Azurymber]

I probably shouldn't be surprised that this thread has been derailed...

Azurymber clearly meant it as a JOKE, something that's strangely lacking around here much of the time. Coatees though anyone? Hello?! Plus EverQuest did rather well with THAT box art.

Sex does sell, otherwise viagra, men's magazines, and Victoria's Secret would never have sold anything. We all objectify other people as sex objects, whether it's teenage boys scouring the intertubes for "sexay ladies" to grown women fantasising about Edward from Twilight. It doesn't make people paedophiles.

exactly.

And the reason why humans are so obsessed/interested with it is due to evolutionary genetics. If we weren't, our species would not have continued to reproduce. Marketers realize this and take full advantage of it, hiring anthropologists and neuroscientists to scientifically determine the best means of exploiting it.

[BornToEnd]

exactly.

And the reason why humans are so obsessed/interested with it is due to evolutionary genetics. If we weren't, our species would not have continued to reproduce. Marketers realize this and take full advantage of it, hiring anthropologists and neuroscientists to scientifically determine the best means of exploiting it.

Totally true. I agree with what you said about cybering too - as long as both people are happy about it, I can't see the harm in it.

EDIT:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/24/fa...mid=tw-nytimes

New York Times points out that WoW (o noes I said WoW) has more subscribers than Match.com and people find love (and probably cybering) through it.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

Totally true. I agree with what you said about cybering too - as long as both people are happy about it, I can't see the harm in it.

EDIT:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/24/fa...mid=tw-nytimes

New York Times points out that WoW (o noes I said WoW) has more subscribers than Match.com and people find love (and probably cybering) through it.

there is harm in cybering actually you do not know who these people really are. And chances are it is a pedophile looking for a target. Watch the news (new york times isn't news it pr fluff) Or read the newspaper. Or go online to read them/watch them kids (mostly young girls) are found dead or turn up missing from meeting these guys (or women) over the internet mostly from nno now, used to be IM chat sites. People fake their id 99% of the time. So to safe cybering is "safe" is a joke. Unless you are 100% certain you know the person 100% i wouldn't deem them safe.