Finally! A Playboy MMO!!! ... Why?

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Khan FurSainty

Look, Ma! Two Heads!
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2009/05/11/new-playboy-mmo-announced/1

Dubbed Playboy Manager, the latest game to be based on the magazine will be a massively multiplayer model management game where players have to endeavor to get their models labeled as Playmate, complete with a room in the mansion.

Jolt Online Gaming will be making the game free too, as well as completely browser-based, so will presumably be financing the game through adverts and/or microtransactions - though the official site, which is currently taking pre-registrations, doesn't hint which.

Interestingly, Playboy Manager looks to be an utterly turn-based type of game too, with gameplay involving a trading-card style system if early reports are to be believed. More interestingly, there'll be pictures of your models and their photoshoots too. So, yay for those of you who need to legitimize your adult surfing habits by wrapping it around a game.

I will repeat. Why?
 
This is so cool. I mean, seriously: turnbased sexplay? They should apply that concept to RL. Men would never cum prematurely again. :D
 
alec said:
This is so cool. I mean, seriously: turnbased sexplay? They should apply that concept to RL. Men would never cum prematurely again. :D
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You were actually supposed to NOT do sexual references this time. :lol: You must do it when it's obscure. :wink:
 
alec said:
This is so cool. I mean, seriously: turnbased sexplay? They should apply that concept to RL. Men would never cum prematurely again. :D
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Oh god Alec, that made me laugh hard. :lol:
 
alec said:
This is so cool. I mean, seriously: turnbased sexplay? They should apply that concept to RL. Men would never cum prematurely again. :D
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But what would the action points decide? How long can you keep on going? How many pushes you can do in single turn? Man, this concept HAS to be turned to FO.
 
PainlessDocM said:
Because porn sells.
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What? Who the fuck buys porn these days?

If they're able to play an MMO, they've obviously got access to the internet which means they're only a click away from one of the tons of entirely free youtube-like porn sites out there with enough content to last a lifetime.


Playboy is dying. Some sad MMO isn't gonna save them.
 
Phil the Nuka-Cola Dude said:
PainlessDocM said:
Because porn sells.
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What? Who the fuck buys porn these days?
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You are joking right? Playboy and other 'written' magazines may have had their best time. But the porn business as a whole is more profitable now then it ever was.
 
PainlessDocM said:
You are joking right? Playboy and other 'written' magazines may have had their best time. But the porn business as a whole is more profitable now then it ever was.
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That still doesn't answer the question of who's buying it. There's no longer a need to hit up some shady XXX video store when you can find literally anything for free online from the privacy of your own home.

So besides computer illiterate baby boomers, who is buying all of this porn?
 
I'd imagine a lot of people still pay for porn online, via massive daily-update websites offering a range of HD videos, or still buying porn DVDs online.

I find the numbers a bit staggering, considering how much material is freely available online, but the market wants what it wants.

Seriously doubt this MMO will make a lot of revenue, besides the few sales it will make after its reviewed in magazines like FHM. People have been trying to make porn games since forever, but never really succeeded commercially.
 
I'm not talking about torrents, I'm talking hugely popular legit sites that offer tons of content in every variety (It's just as easy to find your niche on the free sites as it is to find a specialty site) for free and are updated daily. No downloading of crazy apps or malware involved.

The purchasing of porn this day and age (especially physical media) just seems like complete overkill to me. Like buying a $4000 enthusiast level gaming PC when all you use it for is checking your email, or getting a several thousand dollar entertainment system setup complete with 3D television when the only time you turn it on is to see the daily forecast on your way to work.

I could see it back in the day of 56k, where pictures or tiny clips of ultra-low quality video were all you could get for free (legally), but this is the age of broadband. High quality streams are only a click away.

Lastly: Do you really need several hours of DVD quality material to beat your dick to? I'm sure there are those that will happily throw their money at whatever tickles their pickle, with zero regard for value; but I just can't wrap my brain around that type of person being the mainstream porn consumer out there.
 
Playboy mmo .... sounds like second life. There are islands in this game....
 
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