Inauro
October 29th, 2007, 21:39
This week's Mitra's Method (http://www.warcry.com/articles/view/editorials/mitrasmethod/2567-Age-of-Conan-Editorial-Girls-Just-Wanna-Have-Fun-As-Well) takes a closer look at the treatment of women in Hyboria.
So Funcom comes along and has a look at the Conan license and decides that, while paying all due to respect to Howard's works and bearing in mind the social contexts in which his stories were written, we're in the twenty-first century now, and obviously things have changed. It's not right that players be deprived of the opportunity to play a female character in any game these days, so naturally, players in 'Age of Conan' will be able to choose the gender of their characters (it's a given in any MMOs on the market today).
More information. (http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?newsbit=6939)
So Funcom comes along and has a look at the Conan license and decides that, while paying all due to respect to Howard's works and bearing in mind the social contexts in which his stories were written, we're in the twenty-first century now, and obviously things have changed. It's not right that players be deprived of the opportunity to play a female character in any game these days, so naturally, players in 'Age of Conan' will be able to choose the gender of their characters (it's a given in any MMOs on the market today).
More information. (http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?newsbit=6939)