Age of Conan, Gamer Culture, World of WarCraft
Does WhoreCraft besmirch the name of Warcraft?
Many parents fear games like WoW, having heard horror tales - those unfortunates who undergo too many Drain Souls, lose their friends, drop out of high school to become professional mages, and probably brush up against Jack Thompson somewhere along the way. Does Blizzard need its game featured in a popular hardcore pr0ns series to boot? As in: Whorelore: Swords, Sorcery, and Sex and Rage of Bonan, the adult film series based on World of Warcraft and The Age of Conan.
On the other hand, maybe these MMOs have never had a spotless reputation to begin with. WoW is the most popular game in the world, and the world can be a pretty dirty place. Kotaku tells us that “sex and brutality are everyday subjects in Age of Conan, neatly earning its M rating.” Surely it’s only natural for some players to use unseemly language, for example, and possibly develop inappropriate relationships, engage in illicit “cybering,” etc. I might even go out on a limb and say that some people like sex, especially the people who also like the internet. Maybe Blizzard should gratefully accept this elaborate homage. Not all pr0ns can reenact WoW quests with such nerd-wrought attention to detail, even with the necessary sex-centric freedom of interpretation. Instead, for reasons unknown, they banned Whorelore star Mia Rose.
On the other hand, is it truly fair to borrow, rewrite, and market so much of someone else’s material? Sure, the name may have been changed from World of Whorecraft to Whorelore, but the original source remains obvious, and the characters are behaving at least a little out of character. They may be fictional, but they still have reputations, don’t they?
On the other hand, corsets. Custom-made leather corsets, wrapped and laced around the lithe torsos of powerful elven women with their four-inch ears jammed up each other’s throats, minus the polygons. Q.E.D.?
Tags: Age of Bonan, Mia Rose, Whorecraft, WoW Porn

