So we have discussed the decline of the gaming industry a couple times on the cast and off. We talked about game companies, the consuls and the gamers themselves. We have discussed stereotypes about gamers and how people view them. Well get ready to view them in a whole new light.
http://xboxlive.ign.com/articles/107/1079073p1.html
If you do not want to read the whole article here is the premise. For about $8 a gamer can log onto Gamecrush.com and pick a "hot" girl through various reviews and scoring from other gamers; on hotness, flirtatiousness and gamer ability. They then pick the girl they want and can play video games with them on line, they get like 10 min of game time for that price. The "service" supports 4 Xbox 360 games and some basic flash games, like checkers and battle ship.
I guess I bring this up because deep down I want it to be like an April fools joke. This is ridiculous. Is the gamer community that socially inept to have to resort to paying girls to play video games with them to have that experience. So the stereotype continues and when we are asked what our hobbies are, we drop are head and mumble paint-ball instead of what we really like to do.
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ReplyDeleteA few questions:
ReplyDelete1. Are the girls getting paid? If so,
2. How do I sign up?
3. Is paintball really cooler than gaming?
4. Have you guys ever thought of creating a pay site for something equally as gender selective, like say, a girl pays $8 to have someone tell her her butt doesn't look big in these jeans?
Steve, what did you say?
ReplyDeleteThis is not so surprising, sad but not surprising. I was in a hobby game store today and let me tell you, there are some lonely dudes out there. The best part of the store? The snack rack, equipped with every possible c-store-bad-for-you-super-carb-microwavable, monster-bull-jolt-dew, cheese-sauce-churro, ok, you get the idea.
Maybe I could earn some extra cash!
ReplyDeleteThat's not funny.....sorry
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