Wait, then it’s the same with a playboy magazine. The woman in there aren’t real. Well, the pictures are taking off real women but still..

“Any male player caught playing a female character after the ban is imposed will be immediately sent for “corrective surgery” to change him into a Chinese girl as well as psychotherapy to ensure that the new girl wants to have sex with guys. By doing so, this will reduce the imbalance between men and women in Chinese society and reduce population pressures since men who have had sex changes to become women are unable to get pregnant.”

http://www.postmodernsideshow.com/content/view/132/31/

They are mad, its kinda sexist if you ask me, its a damn game, its like any thing online chat,you dont know who your truly talking to unless u see them on cam, only an idiot would care or fall in love with a virtural characator. Woman/Man/Dog/Beast what ever a person plays its a game, who cares. This will hurt sales/suscriptions.

That one made me laugh

Of course, MMO players without fail fail.

Playing characters of my own sex feels far more natural.

Or maybe their government that is making that INSANE ban has stock in webcams? So, not only do you have to buy the game, but also a webcam?

I used to play online games as a guy because no one would hit on me.
The one time I played as a Human female on WoW (though my primary character was a Tauren female) a guy came up to me like “Do u want to be my gf?” and I just responded “EW! Dude, no, I’m a guy!”

A good amount of my guy friends will play as women on MMORPGs because they’d “rather watch a woman’s ass run around for fifty levels than a man’s”.

on a side note, i actually lived in china for 3 years, and from what i saw, it’s not as bad as people in the U.S. make it out to be. the way they’ve survived for so long as a “Communist” economy is because they’ve gotten progressively lax on those strict policies and drifted partway towards more capitalist ideals. and as for china’s views on sexuality: that’s not so much due to the government as to the culture in general. the chinese aren’t actively against homosexuality per se, most of them just don’t even think about it even existing. it’s tolerated, so long as it isn’t seen out in public; and in that sense, the internet has been a boon for gay communities to build. China is a culture steeped in tradition, and it’s been that way for thousands of years. a lot of people seem to think that the government somehow magically controls the whole culture of the country in some sort of Orwellian fashion, and that’s just not true. its the people that control the culture. in terms of wrong-doing, mostly the government controls information coming into the country and do what they can to control what goes out, and then its mostly restricted to political news. this is mostly seen in how news stories are spun in local papers. and yes, china is concerned with their country’s image, because a majority of people still seem to think the Red Army still marches through the streets and everyone carries a copy of Mao’s Little Red Book (actually, i never me a single person in china who thought Mao was a good person). in fact, the chinese government followed suit with other asian countries a few years back and removed homosexuality from the official medical list of Psychological Disorders.

things have changed people. this ain’t the cultural revolution no more. Mao’s been dead for decades and his corpse looks like a crumbling wax dummy (seriously, i’ve seen it; it’s weird).