Lost Ark Getting Less “Overtly Revealing” Female Armor Sets Following Criticism

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Is there anything worse than seeing a scantily clad female in a video game? Apparently not, as that has been one of the major criticisms that have been levied at Amazon Games’ Lost Ark, a hugely popular fantasy MMORPG from Tripod Studio and Smilegate that has racked up 20 million players worldwide following its launch in the U.S. and Europe last month. Critics say that the game’s representation of females is all wrong, with classes not only being gender locked, but female armor sets being too sexy and baring too much skin. Smilegate says that it will address this terrible oversight by introducing outfit options that aren’t as revealing, although it doesn’t sound like the current options are going anywhere.



“First let’s start with gender-locked classes,” Amazon Games’ franchise lead Soomin Park told Eurogamer. “This is something that will roll out...
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I'd love to see a statistic after the fact on how many people actually use the alternate versions.
 
Funny thing is that they would use even that as a tool to further influence developers to remove sex appeal from games.

See THEY ARE SEXIST! We need to teach them!
 
MadMummy76 said:
Funny thing is that they would use even that as a tool to further influence developers to remove sex appeal from games.

See THEY ARE SEXIST! We need to teach them!
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Just watch subscriber counts over three months if they remove the "sexy" options.
 
Grimlakin said:
Just watch subscriber counts over three months if they remove the "sexy" options.
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According to the article they are not removing them, just adding alternative options. I have no problem with that, but I doubt it will boost concurrent players.
 
It's free to play, and on Steam, so...

...it has WoW-grade graphics. Still has DX9 listed as one of the two rendering options, the other being DX11.
 
Isn't Lost Ark the one that was nuking video cards? Or am I thinking of a different game?

Nope that is New World. Nevermind.
 
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