I'm sure there's some sorta sex in some online world or whatever going on somewhere that I could write about, but who cares, .
via icanhascheezburger, the awesomest site ever to awesome.
Since they're brought me more hits than any other site (thank you misguided google searches!), I feel it's only right to give them a little more space here.
Kotaku has a great feature on the World of Whorecraft porn site, including a photo gallery of one of the models from the game.
There's an interesting quote there, too:
The six episodes, which range from 19 to 30 minutes long each, have logged a total of 20,000 purchases and about five times as many bit torrents, something Dez says he can't profit from or control.
I'm wondering what the ratio is versus normal porn torrents, due specifically to the content and the knowledge of the targeted demographic. It's gotta be pretty high.
So yeah, life is good. You don't update your site for 4 months, and yet, you're still pulling enough hits to continue to let it stagnate while you work on getting your life back together. Then, one day, the hits double, specifically off of google references to "whorecraft" and "world of whorecraft". And you begin to wonder... Is someone doing something about sex in warcraft? Just maybe?
Well, it certainly looks like someone is.
Er, lemme try that again. It certainly looks like someone is...
There we go. Anyways, yes, Whores of Warcraft has arrived, proving you can put some halloween elf ears and silly makeup on a c-level porn start, fuck her, film it, and drive hits to a site about MMO sex. And for this, I must thank the producers of the aforementioned site.
However, I swear to fuckin' god, if they can work in DKP banter in the orgasmic screams, then I'm totally buying this shit. Twice.
I suppose I could feel sorry for this guy and not post this. However, I need content. Sorry guy, you're a casualty of blogging necessity.
So, what can we learn from this poor bastard? Well, other than the fact that the World of Warcraft Dark Elf dance is pretty darn sexy, you should really make sure there are not internet savvy, camera carrying roomates in the house before you jack off to it. Otherwise you will end up on sites like this that people that masturbate to the same things you do read, and yet we they are smart enough not to get caught on camera.
Not that going proudly to the press with this fact is a much better idea
Wow, a whole month since we've posted on this! I thought it was over, too.
Blizzard's CEO has now weighed in on the WoW Ungaying issue that we covered to death back in February. To skip to the meat of the response:
"Blizzard has provided additional training to its game masters," the letter continues, "in order to give them a greater level of sensitivity when responding to similar situations in the future. Blizzard has specifically instructed its game masters that mentioning or discussing sexual orientation or gender identity in a non-insulting fashion is not a violation of the anti-harassment policy and does not constitute grounds for a warning or any other disciplinary action."
So, there we go. Blizzard apologizes and changes policies. Let's hope that's the end of this.
Time for your mid-day dose of Blizzardy goodness:
As we reported earlier but I couldn't find the URL for, InNewsWeekly reports that Blizzard Customer Service has apologized to the guild in question over the GLBT issue. All warnings and threats of punishment have been retracted. Note, however, that policy wording is still under consideration, so we're not out of the woods yet. Blizzard has shown that they will certainly stand against (what seems to be popular, but I'm kinda immersed in the side that I agree with) opinion for at least a bit, so who knows what could happen. I'm sure pretty much everyone involved in this will keep their eyes firmly on Blizzard for any upcoming changes.
TerraNova and some major names in MMO Academia decided to take a stand and send an open letter to Blizzard yesterday. Good stuff.
Finally, InNewsWeekly is now collecting a list of gay guilds and gathering places in MMOs. So, if you've got any places you'd like to see on their list, send them some email. I'll certainly be filling up their Second Life list, so gay clubs of the world, please don't close (This means you, Haz Pazaar)
A commercial for a new emergent use of the World of Warcraft MMO.
Birth Control!
Of course, we've shown multiple times on this page that WoW can be just as much a catalyst for sex as it is a libido killer...
via Ludology
Blizzard and timing aren't to be working well together these days. Right off the end of the gay guilds scandal (which qDot has covered into the ground), today's patch notes include an annoucement of an upcoming Valentine's Day Quest.
A strange 'love sickness' will be infecting guards and townsfolk all across Azeroth. Players should speak to the concerned citizens around the major cities if they would like to help solve this dilemma. As part of the event, all the major cities will receive festive decorations such as ribbons, flowers, and heart streamers, and players may even see a few NPCs sharing thoughts of love.
I can already feel the eyes of a thousand gaming bloggers staring unblinkingly into every detail of the quest, scouring to see if Blizzard has made any concessions to their policies. Seeing that the company's point of view so far seems to be "love is what we make it, not you make it", flaunting that philosophy with a specialized holiday mission doesn't seem like the best idea.
via 1up
First off, guten Tag to everyone coming in from the Der Spiegel article on WoW!
Now then, Wonderland reported earlier this week that there should be some gay pride parades in WoW in order to retaliate against the guild issues that have been sweeping message boards and blog threads around the net. Well, just like everything else on the internet, if someone says it, someone else probably either has, or will, do it.
Both The Spreading Taint and Stonewall Champions' guilds have been having pride parties over on the Proudmore server for quite a while now, apparently. I have a feeling there's gonna be a lot more of these soon, too.
via Wonderland
Because a day without a WoW GLBT update is like a day without sunshine full of HATE...
First off, since I haven't actually posted this yet, and I can't believe I haven't, here's the webpage for the gulid that's been in question. They've got a ridiculous amount of news and comic links about the thing, just in case you need a break from all of the boring, text only news the rest of us have been posting about it.
Anyways, according to the page, Blizzard has apologized to the guild, sending them a nice letter saying they have retracted the warning and suspension. I could've sworn I saw the letter body somewhere on the net, but I certainly can't seem to find it again. The apology did not mention a change to the policy wording, however, so we're not out of the issue quite yet.
PlayNoEvil has weighed in the topic by discussing how games are defined, presenting the idea of a "Reality Test" to tell whether or not we should compare in world actions to real world equivilents.
On the sillier side of things, Kotaku decided to do an analysis of the WoW Item Inventory to see what kind of naughty names they could come up with. There's "A Bulging Coin Purse", "Advisor’s Gnarled Staff" (Ew), "Kezan’s Unstoppable Taint" (EW), and many, many more. How these guys can pull 20+ posts a day and have time for this, I'll never know. Please, share your meth with the rest of us.
Ok, I swear, this is it. After this, we'll actually post new, interesting things about something other than the WoW thing.
But, for the moment.
As we picked up from Kotaku last week, gay rights legal firm Lambda Legal had taken up the legal banner for gay WoW players. The firm has now sent a letter to Blizzard explaining why their actions could cause lawsuits in the future. The body of the letter is in the extended section of this post.
Picked this one up via Kotaku, and the comment thread on the post is still flamerific, though the arguments aren't really varying much anymore. I still don't see this ending well for anyone, though.
Well, 3 straight posts on this are really bringing the sexy level of our blog down, and unfortunatly I don't have time to make a boingboing like unicorn post, so you'll just have to suffer until Monday. What would a unicorn post be on here anyways? I suppose I could post some SL porn or something.
Anyways, Blizzard's at it again. This time, Cathode Tan is reporting that a GM in WoW as said that two female characters getting married would be grounds for "reporting" and discipline. This technically does follow the line that Blizzard has been spewing so far, but this is really not going anywhere in terms of their image. There's really not much more to say that we haven't said in the other two posts now, so I'll just end with *sigh*.
via Kotaku
Wow, what an internet wirefire this has turned into.
So, as of our last post (which was last weekend, before Blizzard a chance to clear things up like you know they would...
'cept they didn't.
Here's the exact wording from Blizzard, since I like making my posts look long:
“Apologies for the length of time it took to get this information out to you.
“We encourage community building among our players with others of similar interests, and we understand that guilds are one of the primary ways to forge these communities. However, topics related to sensitive real-world subjects — such as religious, sexual, or political preference, for example — have had a tendency to result in communication between players that often breaks down into harassment.
“To promote a positive game environment for everyone and help prevent such harassment from taking place as best we can, we prohibit mention of topics related to sensitive real-world subjects in open chat within the game, and we do our best to take action whenever we see such topics being broadcast. This includes openly advertising a guild friendly to players based on a particular political, sexual, or religious preference, to list a few examples. For guilds that wish to use such topics as part of their recruiting efforts, our Guild Recruitment forum, located at our community Web site, serves as one open avenue for doing so.
“We will be clarifying some of the language in our game policies in order to help avoid such confusion in the future.”
So, that made no one happy, and the internet has blazed with the light of a million flames since. Joystiq, Kotaku, ShackNews, and other places around the net (check the Joystiq article for more news sources) are seeing heated debate over this issue. Here at MMOrgy, I still stand by what I originally said, and now WolfOfTheAir is weighing in:
Basically, the fact that some number of people (who are probably in the majority) don't care doesn't mean this is a topic that can be swept under the carpet.
They desire not to have to hear about it, and become offended when I shove it in their face. I desire not to have to hear things that I find offensive, but which others shove in my face.
What makes them more special than me?
I see the homophobia-as-humor shtick to be creating a hostile environment to me specifically, and to anyone of the alternative preference set in general. As was mentioned, they're opening themselves up to massive lawsuits if they make homophobic-type remarks available in their own software, and then censure anyone who tries to create an even remotely non-homophobic environment in-game.
The "homophobic-type remarks in the game" issue comes up from the aforementioned post on Shacknews, with the relevant part as follows:
Speaking of innocent sexual language being used in the game, Blizzard built plenty of it into the shipping product, which makes this situation even more absurd. There is a "/flirt" emote with many prerecorded lines of dialogue, including one that states, "Homogenized? No way, I like the ladies!" In fact, when I was just now in the game cycling through the pre-recorded "/flirt" emotes in order to find that one, another male character walked up to me and repeatedly invoked the "/sexy" emote, which appeared to me as "Circuitjerky thinks you are a sexy devil." Should I have reported this behavior to a GM? Somebody could have been insulted!.
Research on the IGDA Sex In Games Mailing List found that this quote comes from the Male Tauren character, but could be construed enough ways that it would break Blizzards own policies.
GamesIndustry reported that the Stonewall gay rights group had already called on Blizzard to change their policies. Kotaku is now reporting that a gay rights group has jumped into the fray, with one of their attourneys helping out the WoW players that got the inital warning.
Get your flame-retardant suits, popcorn and lawn chairs, kids. This ain't gonna end any time soon.
For those of you too lazy to click out of your newsreaders, here's the situation:
Someone decided to put "GLBT Friendly" (Gay/Lesbian/Bi/Transgendered) as part of their guild name in World of Warcraft. One day, they sign on to find themselves flagged with a policy violation. After firing off an email to Blizzard, they find out that having terms indicating the sexual orientation of the guild is against policy. Quoting from the article:
The response from Blizzard was, "While we appreciate and understand your point of view, we do feel that the advertisement of a 'GLBT friendly' guild is very likely to result in harassment for players that may not have existed otherwise. If you will look at our policy, you will notice the suggested penalty for violating the Sexual Orientation Harassment Policy is to 'be temporarily suspended from the game.' However, as there was clearly no malicious intent on your part, this penalty was reduced to a warning."
So, long story short: If you have a guild called "God hates fags", then you're violating this policy. If you have a guild named "GLBT friendly", you're violating the same policy.
If you have a guild named "My name is Gay. No, really, like Gay, as in the First Name, is Gay"... Hey, someone with a WoW account wanna try this? Hell, they let The Spreading Taint through.
Since I'm the only one around (updating a sex blog on a Friday night... But my mom thinks I'm cool!), I guess I'll throw in the first MMOrgy opinion:
Man, Blizzard.
WTF, dude. Seriously.
Shit like this is what turns virtual worlds into day care centers, and you're seeing why. Yes, gamers, for the most part, are an insensitive bunch of asses. I know, I'm one of them. But you try to clamp down on everyone, and ain't no one gonna be havin' a good time.
'course, you've got 5.5 million players now, you can probably pull crap like this and laugh at the 1% drop in your servers as people continue to level grind mindlessly so they can ebay their lvl 60 character. But watch as the interesting people leave due to crazy ass rules, the fun people leave due to creative stiffling, even in guild names, and see how nifty your world is then.
You'll still have players, hell, you'll always have players, but how fucking fulfilling is a world without interesting, diverse players who let others KNOW they are, and are willing to stick up for it, eh?
Other people's opinions (I'm gonna keep updating this as these come in):
Fellow Sexy Geek Jason Schultz
Cory Doctorow of BoingBoing
Terra Nova Thread
Sometimes, no matter how sexy we try to make this stuff, it just doesn't come out right.
Hoo. Yeah... I... yeah. They could use a look at the Adult Text Roleplay guide. Or... something...
via Wonderland
The tale of House Gallant is a short, unfortunate one. Originally started under a different name – /Taraes os Varol/, or ‘Master of Passion’ – the leader, Maeka, sought to create a guild in World of Warcraft that catered to a different style of play: that of Domination, Submission, and open slavery amongst its membership.
However, in the same month it started, House Gallant disbanded (due to internal conflicts, I was later told). But, Maeka agreed to talk to me, and tell me a little bit about what it was like to run a guild unlike any other in WoW.
Utopian Hell has a rant concerning sexuality and female characters in video games, with specific examples of sexism in MMO's.
After level twenty in World of Warcraft, a Warlock gets a pet ‘Succubus’. She’s busty, barely dressed, and she possesses the ability to stun her targets by mesmerizing them with her sexiness. As if that weren’t bad enough, her idle animation is slapping her ass and making a squeaking sound.
A long-running debate between the players of World of Warcraft is over the often-drastic differences between the art styles of clothing and armor for males and females. Some are of the opinion that the artists aren't stressing the 'Heavy' in 'Heavy Metal' very much. However, when it comes to pictures like these, it's not hard to understand why.
The posters over at wow.com's community have been debating the topic for a week now. Join the discussion here.
WoW Adult (German blog) is what looks to be the beginnings of a World of Warcraft Machinima Porn site. They've released one movie so far, an encounter between a human and a gnome that's more creepy than it is hot, but we'll at least give them credit for trying.
We recommend trying the Mirror 2 Quicktime link if you'd actually like to download the movie, as it looks like most the other links have gone defunct. If you're interested in reading the page in English, putting it through Babelfish yields somewhat usable results.
I won't lie, this doesn't have a whole lot to do with MMO Sex.
However, after two back-to-back articles on rape, you can consider this our equivilent to the Boing Boing Unicorn posts.
Update 10/09/06: I'm assuming, if you're coming here from the google link, you're actually looking for this:
Click on the picture or here to go to the Whores of Warcraft Post, otherwise, continue as you were.
Well, now that we've had the World of P0rncraft, it's only fitting to mention World of Whorecraft.
This is obviously a joke. But, like all good jokes, parts of it are now coming true (an event I like to call "Onioning"). You can see elements of many multiplayer games in the descriptions, a Nostradomus-like charting of where MMOs are going (or at least, where we'd like them to go...).
P0rncraft: WoW Erotica and Roleplay Forums
With 3+ million users, it comes as no surprise that there's already a very large, very thriving World of Warcraft Erotica/Machinima/RolePlay community. With 7000+ users and a tons of active threads, p0rncraft seems to be the place to be if you get sick of grinding and want to... grind. (That joke is never going to get old, really)
Nude Night Eve, courtesy LasarusX, soon to be at http://wowskins.mmorgy.com
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