Prime World (new MOBA video game) to charge women less for extra heroes, and offer gender-based bonuses in combat

carbonnanotube · 2012-04-02T18:57:25+00:00

Here is a quote from the dev (at least he claims to be) in the comments:

Hi. My name is Sergey Galyonkin and I work for Nival. I just wanted to clarify some things.

Female players have discounts for female characters, not for all characters. Same for male players and male characters.

Being a female doesn't give you any advantages over being male in Prime World. Playing with people of other gender does.

We don't see female players as weaker ones. It just we often see female players being harrased by hardcore community, so they often have to hide the fact that they're female. We thought about giving gender-diverse team some kind of an advantage, hence optional gender bonus.

Gender bonus is symmetrical - so all-females team will benefit from male player the same way the all-male team from female player.

This talent is optional, you can switch it for something else when you decide on your build. So if you're going all-male pre-made you can choose instead something else. But the way our leveling works you never will have a chance to unlock all talents during course of a game, so it worth keeping it in your build just in case.

You can fake your gender of course, it is Internet after all. But if you create a fake Facebook profile you loose all social benefits, like playing with your real friends in game. Prime >World doesn't post anything to your wall, but if some of your friends are playing Prime World you'll see them in interface and will be able to play together.

Also, if you go with your real profile, changing gender will surely alert your mom :) I don't expect someone to change Facebook gender for a game.

You don't have to use Facebook to play Prime World, you can register with e-mail and password as usual.

But from our tests in Russia we see that most people registered that way later go and add Facebook profile to be able to play with their real-life friends. 50% of the fun is who do you play with :)

I have to say that if this is indeed the developer's stance I am pretty neutral about it. In my experience with more public online games female gamers are actually harassed, though if it by more "hardcore" players I am not sure. Generally if you are playing a higher level game that all goes away, but if you are on a public server there are douche bags who seem to ruin it for everyone.

Wordshark · 2012-04-03T01:32:19+00:00

I don't really care about this bonus thing, but it rankles me, this attitude that any mostly-male space is inherently bad, and needs to be feminized so that women can safely enter without being offended. It's not enough to let women come work at a garage, you also have to banish all the crude language and jokes to conform to some Victorian notion of polite discourse. Women want to enter male spaces and be a part of them, but they want the male spaces to stop being so male.

Can you imagine men demanding that a traditionally-female space become more masculine so that men could comfortably participate?

Title	Prime World (new MOBA video game) to charge women less for extra heroes, and offer gender-based bonuses in combat
Author	Shadowsoal
Upvotes	4
Comments	12
Date	April 2, 2012 5:52 PM UTC (14 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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