Gamers Pay To Play With Girls 408
taucross writes "A new site allows lonely Xbox 360 gamers to pay a prescribed fee for a few minutes of game time with one of the 'PlayDates', a girl who is paid to play video games. Gamers can choose to have a 'flirty' or 'dirty' experience with one of the PlayDates. Is this what we meant when we said we wanted 'adult gaming'?"
May I be the first to say... (Score:5, Insightful)
May I be the first to say... WTF?!?
No seriously? WTF?!?
What's the point? It just exploits the hope of those guys to get a real date, without the actual hope of getting a real one.. Wait, scratch that... It will probably be hugely popular... *sigh*.
Do the girls get paid to do it, just like camgirls? Ah, yes, it's right there in the article... Well, guess there is more dignity in doing that than undressing yourself before a cam. Perhaps they can combine it and make even more money: for each time you frag her, she has to remove one piece of clothing.... /ME runs to patent the idea ;-)
o.O (Score:4, Insightful)
Seriously, how do you walk into a bank to ask for a business loan for this sort of thing?
Wow...
History Repeats... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Capitalism (Score:5, Insightful)
No, actually, I'm quite proud of myself for not thinking about this. At all.
Pathetic (Score:1, Insightful)
Pathetic. Save your money and go to a real prostitute.
Re:May I be the first to say... (Score:3, Insightful)
I think the online dating sites now cater not just to those that are "too busy" for a social scene. They are filled with people who are sick of the regular social scene (e.g., bars) for meeting people. There are people from all professions, faiths, and interests on them at this point.
This new service seems like it will be less rewarding and more expensive than regular dating sites.
Re:Think of the Children? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:May I be the first to say... (Score:2, Insightful)
Seriously!? (Score:3, Insightful)
I'd love to find a girl that likes to play video games, and would enjoy playing them with me. Hell, I'm even inclined to give up my bachelor lifestyle for such a rare gem... But pay $9 for 10 minutes of playing a game with her over the net? I really, really don't think so.
Now, if that was the prelude to getting an actual date with her, I could see it. (In other words, you have to prove you aren't a complete asshole while playing games.)
Re:May I be the first to say... (Score:3, Insightful)
Eh, I get to be seen around Orgrimar with a hot Orc chick, or in my case around Sol space station with a hot Betazoid ;)
Re:Nevada (Score:3, Insightful)
Most whores will be just as happy to talk to you.
The difference is, if you decide you want to fuck, you can.
Re:I wish to Christ this was a joke (Score:5, Insightful)
...but it's not.
Shame on you, CmdrTaco, for posting this. Shame on the organisation behind it for creating it. And every one of you assholes who immediately started joking about it, you disgust me.
Why? Seriously.
I'm genuinely ambivalent about even the world's oldest profession, of which this is arguably a very mild version. It doesn't disgust me, it's been around forever and seems to be a part of human nature.
As long as noone's being forced into it, I don't have a problem with it. There are plenty of dysfunctional relationships out there, and it sometimes seems like a straightforward paid transaction is more honest.
Re:Who are you to cast aspersions? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:May I be the first to say... (Score:5, Insightful)
Unless you can actually see the 'girl', who says that it is not a guy with a girl avatar? Nothing in the article says they check to make sure that the girls are real girls. Sort of reminds me of the video for sweet emotion. In the end the girl was a real girl, but she looked nothing like what the guy thought.
Re:May I be the first to say... (Score:2, Insightful)
It's not really a dating service at all, it's more like phone sex or escort services (from the sounds of things it can be closer to either at your request). I've never understood either of these things. I mean, most normal people like the occasional porn, but porn is a non-interactive media. It's simply an ambiance that gets you in the mood (either by yourself or in whatever partner or partner + configuration floats your boat). This stuff is essentially lying to yourself. You're pretending that you have a real relationship (whether carnal or not) with this person who is essentially just hanging out with you because you're paying them.
Eh, kiss arse (Score:5, Insightful)
I doubt you will be getting 8.99 per sessions if it lasts for 10 seconds and leave the paying customer humiliated. You will have to loose and complement him on his excellent skills.
Really, if being a whore was about getting great sex while being paid, more women would do it.
Re:May I be the first to say... (Score:1, Insightful)
audio via headset
Dirty or Flirty (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:I wish to Christ this was a joke (Score:3, Insightful)
It bothers me because it tacitly encourages the continued objectification and marginalisation of women within gaming circles. I don't doubt for a minute that people will people will pay for the privilege of going onto the system and berating the women on the other end of the line for being women, because now they know who they're talking to. If there was a way to police the behaviour of the users of the system, that would be one thing. There can't be, though, so all this is is a perfect avenue for misogynistic gamers to hurt people.
I'll put it this way: even if there were no pimps anywhere in the world, and every prostitute in the field did it because they enjoyed what they did, there would still be people out there who would pay for the ability to beat the shit out of them. Even if the women involved aren't being coerced into it, there's a significant number of men who will abuse the system in order to abuse women.
And even there was, it still doesn't excuse all the disgusting, misogynistic comments on this article.
Re:May I be the first to say... (Score:3, Insightful)
Unless you can actually see the 'girl', who says that it is not a guy with a girl avatar? Nothing in the article says they check to make sure that the girls are real girls. Sort of reminds me of the video for sweet emotion. In the end the girl was a real girl, but she looked nothing like what the guy thought.
While you might not be able to see the 'girl', I'm assuming the girls are required to use the mic as much as possible during the game. Like phone sex except they are to sound cute when playing and make flirty type comments about your playing skills.
Re:I wish to Christ this was a joke (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Who are you to cast aspersions? (Score:2, Insightful)
What it could help with... (Score:3, Insightful)
You mean it wasn't common knowledge? (Score:3, Insightful)
Heh. I thought it was common knowledge by now, especially by the tech-savvy Slashdot users, but I guess humanity surprises me again.
Plus, if you think software was the biggest problem, consider this: the larynx actually changes for boys at puberty, under the influence of testosterone. (Which is why they used guys castrated early for some roles in opera and such.) What sounds like a flirty girl on your headset can well be a 13 year old boy. Or a 10 year old girl, for that matter. Considering the pedo hysteria lately, I wouldn't rush to talk too indecently to someone you don't really know, based on just what they sound like. Just something to think about.
Re:I wish to Christ this was a joke (Score:3, Insightful)
Shame on the organisation behind it for creating it.
Well, OK, it's kinda pathetic and tacky, I grant you that. But at least the poor people performing the service can be warm and safe at home, not risking their health, or worse, on the street. Most will be guys, anyway...
Shame on you, CmdrTaco, for posting this.
You've lost me there...this is supposed to be 'news for nerds', after all...
And every one of you assholes who immediately started joking about it, you disgust me.
Well, like I said, this is /. What do you expect them to do - climb out of the basement and spend the money on a real hooker instead?
Oh, and while we're on the topic of sanctimonious posts, many people would be upset by your blasphemy.
Still, I see you've been modded funny, so I guess I'm gonna get 'whooooshed' for this post!
Re:I wish to Christ this was a joke (Score:4, Insightful)
You on the other hand want to take away their right to choose to this. Quite frankly, your post is more offensive than the majority of the posts on here. Women can take care of themselves. They aren't being forced to do this. Most people are saying things in jest, you are speaking (unless I am way off base) in seriousness. Your post strikes me as more misogynistic than the others. Would you object if a bunch of attractive, muscled men offered the same thing to women? Of course not. It's ok to objectify men as sexual object, but not women? You are the one with the problem.
Re:May I be the first to say... (Score:1, Insightful)
This is all moot anyways.
RealDoll + DARPA artificial intelligence is 5 years away
Re:I wish to Christ this was a joke (Score:4, Insightful)
I was kind of missing the fact that you keep getting modded as funny and taking you at face value. I'm bored, I'll carry on doing so for a while.
If women aren't being coerced into it, and there are guys that abuse them, they have a very simple option...
If you're serious, I kind of suspect you live in the PC world of academe (as your sig suggests). Have you ever met, and spoken to, any strippers or prostitutes? Quite a few of them would be rather patronised by your disgust.
Re:I wish to Christ this was a joke (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:wifi in the kitchen? (Score:2, Insightful)
do they adequately verify that these "girls" are actually human females?
You say that like it matters.
They're certainly not all attractive, 20-something genetic girls on the porn hotlines, so why would this be different? What matters is what you perceive, given that it's a pretend world regardless of how hot and sexy the worker is.
Anyway, I, for one, welcome aliens practicing their English and sexual skills by impersonating a porn human.
Huh? Wha...? (Score:3, Insightful)
Huh? What's wrong with joking about it anyway?
And if you're offended by us joking about this, you may want to completely avoid the likes of George Carlin (joking about rape for example) or Jimmy Carr (joking about such topics as kids with leukemia) and really most comedians out there.
Re:May I be the first to say... (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm a girl, I game, and if I needed the money, sure - why wouldn't I make a few bucks flirting with some random yahoo while playing an FPS?
Because you live in a society where people who sell their soul for money get to look down on people who sell their bodies for money. I'm not entirely sure how we ended up like this either...
Re:May I be the first to say... (Score:3, Insightful)
Well, I can say that some of it comes from the fact that a group traditionally out of power (women) have been the ones who've been able to sell their bodies. But, speaking to your larger point, I agree - it's amazing to me that people will not even question (much) selling out their very selves, but cry "Ick! Unclean!" at something trivial like a sexualized encounter, in the US.
Re:Seriously? (Score:1, Insightful)
really? so why are you posting comments over here instead of going outside for real human interaction>?
Re:Dirty or Flirty (Score:3, Insightful)
This pisses you off as a father of daughters... how do you think us women gamers feel?