Ladies to get discounts in Prime World

Prime World has outlined plans to offer discounts and special talents for female players.

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The upcoming strategy-social MOBA Prime World will offer discounts and special abilities for women, in an effort to widen the player pool from the standard male demographic. Some abilities will only be accessible by women, when playing female characters.

To start, women will pay less than men for new characters, according to the PA Report. On top of that, playing a character that shares your real-life gender gives you a special talent, so an actual woman playing a female character would have a unique ability that no one else can offer. The title will connect to Facebook to check your gender, so if you really want to game the system (and get confused/mocking comments from your parents/friends), you could always switch roles.

"The idea is to introduce the MOBA genre not only to hardcore players who already love it, but to their friends who might be more casual, and of course to their sisters and girlfriends who may not be as hardcore," said creative producer Larisa Nuretdinova. "To do the very best, you'll want a female player on your team. You don't need to have male and female players on the same team to win, but it will certainly help."

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    April 3, 2012 9:15 AM

    Steve Watts posted a new article, Ladies to get discounts in Prime World.

    Prime World has outlined plans to offer discounts and special talents for female players.

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      April 3, 2012 9:24 AM

      What could possibly go wrong?

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        April 3, 2012 11:31 AM

        No, it's brilliant. I'm sure they studied the matter and determined that the only thing keeping women away from these kinds of games is the price. And exclusives.

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      April 3, 2012 9:25 AM

      Can you imagine the response from the female gaming community if the opposite of this happened? Ooooh man.

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        April 3, 2012 10:24 AM

        It's okay.

        Males and whites aren't people. It's ok to discriminate against us. :(

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          April 3, 2012 10:49 AM

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          April 3, 2012 2:02 PM

          Kinda like that War On Christmas thing, too. Why'd you bring up "white"?

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            April 3, 2012 2:10 PM

            cause of white history month of course

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            April 3, 2012 8:11 PM

            Because "white male" is the least protected group.

            Easiest to fire, safest to insult. You know what happens when people organize a Mac? (March for the Advancement of Caucasians)
            Sharpton gets more airtime. :(

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        April 3, 2012 2:06 PM

        I think this is stupid too, as would my friends.

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      April 3, 2012 10:10 AM

      Lawsuit inc, unless this article was submitted on April 1st but didn't get published til today.

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        April 3, 2012 10:33 AM

        How is this different than every bar's "girls drink free Wednesday's" etc?

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          April 3, 2012 10:39 AM

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            April 3, 2012 11:01 AM

            "it will kill off any community interest in this game except from the largest possible demographic"

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      April 3, 2012 10:21 AM

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      April 3, 2012 10:27 AM

      All the dudes that play this game will change their facebook genders to female and play female characters, thus it will have the highest percentage of chicks with dicks of any game ever.

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      April 3, 2012 10:36 AM

      Horrible idea.

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      April 3, 2012 11:02 AM

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      April 3, 2012 11:38 AM

      "Please lift your shirt to verify sex"

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        April 3, 2012 11:39 AM

        And the 2012 worst job in the game industry goes to: Gender Verification Customer Support.

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          April 3, 2012 11:41 AM

          "Reason for Termination: Gerald was unable to differentiate a particularly perky set of moobs from actual female breasts"

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        April 3, 2012 11:57 AM

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      April 3, 2012 11:48 AM

      Zynga purchase in 3, 2, 1...

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      April 3, 2012 12:13 PM

      A Ladies' Night for games... brilliant!

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        April 3, 2012 12:25 PM

        Seriously though, I'm curious to know how much of the "hardcore" ethos that seemingly comes standard with Battle Arena games will prevail in this game, despite its casual slant. If guys, with all their honed gaming mindsets, often come away from LoL and DotA matches QQ'ing their eyes out, what chance do their wives or girlfriends have?

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