We're not even a week into the new year and The Daily Mail has already published yet another hysterical attack on videogames. Star Wars: The Old Republic has come under fire from Rob Waugh, alarmed at the fact that Sith Warriors can enslave a female character (Vette) and treat her, y'know, like an evil Sith would treat a slave.
"Gamers playing the hit online game Star Wars: the Old Republic are torturing and abusing a female 'slave' character with punches and an 'electric shock collar' -- and enjoying it," writes the Mail. "The character comes with a 'shock collar' that allows gamers to ensure 'obedience'."
The Mail admits that players do have the option to treat Vette kindly, but adds that "the option to treat the character decently does not seem to have been enormously popular with players." Naturally, the article offers no evidence to prove the popularity of any player choices, instead just lifting paragraphs from a single sarcastic Kotaku post.
It wouldn't be a Mail article without a serving of hypocrisy, though. CVG points out that, while trying to shock its conservative, morally upstanding readers with this sick filth, the publication's other articles of the day include bikini-clad babes and sideboob photographs. Classy!
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1:00 PM on 01.05.2012 | 
Where was that article - HUH?!
People these days...
My Sith Inquisitor has cut down unarmed civilians, murdered allies, and generally been an irredeemable monster. I am not evil in real life, but getting to play a nefarious Sith is pretty fun.
There's a reason why many actors love to play bad guys in moves. Not because they're bad people, but pretending to be can be outrageously enjoyable.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/01/03/the-bizarre-sexism-in-biowares-star-wars-the-old-republic/
Why is it always Ea/Bioware games that get this kind of heat? I'm beginning to think that maybe they encourage 'bad press' like this just for the attention it brings. Anyways, back to TOR and my Sith sorcerer.
I dunno, I geuss for some reason torture just seems to be a bit far in terms of stimulated violence for me. But I know that doing it in a game dosnt mean you want to in real life like the papers would have you believe.
Quick question though , can you bang her? My perverted friend wants to know.
I think we all get their bull shit and thats why we avoid reading them yet here they are on d-toid's front page :?
Gaming journalizm!1!!
As Max Scoville said, you are inherently evil. :L
Also, the Daily mail posted an article that despised The new Sherlock episode for showing a near naked Irene Adler pre-watershed...whilst showing a picture of her in the same article. :p
Its a game, its a fantasy, and none of us (I hope) are really doing it in real life. However, I'm willing to bet, given what I know from movies and television (the only sources you ever need) about English/European (hell who am I kidding, even American) print news people, they're probably killing and maiming actual slaves while they sip their brandy at night.
Next on FX, 8mm 3
Interesting. I play Republic, but I was wondering what a Sith was doing with a twilek tagging along...
"but I was wondering what a Sith was doing with a twilek tagging along..."
Theres more things you can do when you have a twilek tagging along then just killing or maiming... Think head tails ;)
My Sith Inquisitor is frightfully nice to slaves, because he was one. He treats everyone else like crap, though.
I had a tetris addiction, so deeply embedded upon mine grey matter twas the audio visual feast that now all my belongings must interlock so as to ensure my personal serenity.
Games affect brains, a true notion. Post bathing I will employ a system of bodily moisture removal which follows a routine not dissimilar from attempting to better ones lap time on an electronic car racing game.
I have played so many games that I no longer see life as something not to be experienced in the style of a videogame, to my own displeasure I hasten to add, as real life, in comparison to dark souls is pretty fucking standard.
Who's been saying stuff about games? I will meet them after school for a fight. They would be wise however to digest this info - I will not display any pain or discomfort during pugilism, not until I am but one strike from defeat, at which point one more punch will kill me
WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?
so yeah it's bad
@Magnalon that was part of a larger story, not idling torturing an NPC for shits and giggle.
Conservatives...
News at 11.
Hell, they'd probably cry themselves to sleep for a week if they ever touched the DK starting area.