Post by Keith on May 26, 2007 18:31:04 GMT -8
Before video games had become very mainstream, there was a small following of mainly of "nerds", "losers", etc. Within the last few years, they started adding sex and glamour to gaming events such as E3. E3 happened to be one of the biggest gaming expos in the United States. Most of the time, E3 would take place in Los Angeles, California for about 3-4 days every May. However, E3 is not open to the general public. E3's only open to the press, exhibitors, and other VIPs. Last few years, they started adding in booth babes.
In the beginning, I thought it was cool to look at scantily clad booth babes. That was one of my sole motivations for wanting to attend an event like E3. And then game companies started to add more sex and glamour to their game titles. It had only masked the poor gameplay quality of such titles. After awhile, gamers become more intelligent and see beyond the sex and glamour. Gamers aren't just nerds and geeks. The category of gamers is pretty broad and diverse. More people are getting into video games. More females are getting into video gaming and forming up their game groups. Some examples of notable female game groups are: PMS Clan, Fragdollz, and WatchUsGame Girls.
It just shows how much the concept of booth babes are losing its effect. One good analogy is when I watched professional wrestling on TV. I became very turned off when they "sexed" it up more with the divas competition. Although the divas provide good eye candy, I don't care about that stuff, I just want to see the wrestling. This is why it's called professional wrestling.
We're at an age where we're looking beyond the sex and looking into the merits of the game. Sex appeal is one thing, but a game is an investment of time. Booth babes may entice you to buy a game title but they come and go with each annual event. If the chicks look very sexy, doesn't mean the gameplay will neccessary be that great. One example is "Dave Mirra's BMX XXX." That game had a lot of topless nudity. But the game didn't sell that greatly. It rounded down to the graphics and the gameplay.
There was Dead or Alive: Beach Volleyball where you get to play volleyball with the girls of the fighting game series Dead or Alive. At first I thought it wasn't going to sell due to the sex appeal. However, I've been hearing that the game plays very good just like a very good volleyball game. It just shows that sex appeal alone will not sell titles.
Recently, they were passing new rules barring the use of booth babes. That's pretty much a step in the positive reaction. I've talked to a few people on their opinions on the use of booth babes. One girl I asked happens to be a columnist for the online comic store "Silver Bullet Comics." She simply replied that booth babes are simply degrading to women. Another friend who's a guy didn't like the concept of booth babes because they take attention away from the games. And he's right. I want to go to a convention to check out games and not be distracted by booth babes.
Booth babes alone will bring a bunch of people to a gaming event. But are they the people you want to attract. Are they going to care about what games and consoles you plan to release? Or are they going to be focused on the eye-candy? Also if you're having a gaming event for all ages, you have to ask yourself this question about if booth babes are appropriate in the first place.
If you still see the need of booth babes, think of it this way: you want booth babes to overshadow a title you created that has overall great gamplay and bring more attention to another game with no so great gameplay?
Simply put, booth babes serve no purpose in a gaming event. If you want to make a gaming event with meaning, booth babes will only give people the wrong impression.
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In the beginning, I thought it was cool to look at scantily clad booth babes. That was one of my sole motivations for wanting to attend an event like E3. And then game companies started to add more sex and glamour to their game titles. It had only masked the poor gameplay quality of such titles. After awhile, gamers become more intelligent and see beyond the sex and glamour. Gamers aren't just nerds and geeks. The category of gamers is pretty broad and diverse. More people are getting into video games. More females are getting into video gaming and forming up their game groups. Some examples of notable female game groups are: PMS Clan, Fragdollz, and WatchUsGame Girls.
It just shows how much the concept of booth babes are losing its effect. One good analogy is when I watched professional wrestling on TV. I became very turned off when they "sexed" it up more with the divas competition. Although the divas provide good eye candy, I don't care about that stuff, I just want to see the wrestling. This is why it's called professional wrestling.
We're at an age where we're looking beyond the sex and looking into the merits of the game. Sex appeal is one thing, but a game is an investment of time. Booth babes may entice you to buy a game title but they come and go with each annual event. If the chicks look very sexy, doesn't mean the gameplay will neccessary be that great. One example is "Dave Mirra's BMX XXX." That game had a lot of topless nudity. But the game didn't sell that greatly. It rounded down to the graphics and the gameplay.
There was Dead or Alive: Beach Volleyball where you get to play volleyball with the girls of the fighting game series Dead or Alive. At first I thought it wasn't going to sell due to the sex appeal. However, I've been hearing that the game plays very good just like a very good volleyball game. It just shows that sex appeal alone will not sell titles.
Recently, they were passing new rules barring the use of booth babes. That's pretty much a step in the positive reaction. I've talked to a few people on their opinions on the use of booth babes. One girl I asked happens to be a columnist for the online comic store "Silver Bullet Comics." She simply replied that booth babes are simply degrading to women. Another friend who's a guy didn't like the concept of booth babes because they take attention away from the games. And he's right. I want to go to a convention to check out games and not be distracted by booth babes.
Booth babes alone will bring a bunch of people to a gaming event. But are they the people you want to attract. Are they going to care about what games and consoles you plan to release? Or are they going to be focused on the eye-candy? Also if you're having a gaming event for all ages, you have to ask yourself this question about if booth babes are appropriate in the first place.
If you still see the need of booth babes, think of it this way: you want booth babes to overshadow a title you created that has overall great gamplay and bring more attention to another game with no so great gameplay?
Simply put, booth babes serve no purpose in a gaming event. If you want to make a gaming event with meaning, booth babes will only give people the wrong impression.
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