How come EQ didnt get the quantity of porn other games get?

[LulzSect©]

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[FungusTrooper]

Also extremely NSFW (but just a link, and honestly less NSFW than the previous one):

 

http://rule34.paheal.net/post/view/238670

Out of ~150 EQ images, this is probably the best one. 99% of them are ratonga, iksar or kerran.

[d3r14k]

@FungusTrooper's link

That's nice but why aren't troll whamen represented?

*looks in upper right corner*

Oh...

[Check12345]

If it weren't for the internet I would have never know what yiffing, clopping, feeding and docking were all about.

[Jauna]

IS there seriously porn about boats coming to shore?

[Sorn]

I would argue that it did but everyone hand wrote it in their EQ notebooks rather than post it on the internet. #dialuplife

[AzzarTheGod]

Originally Posted by branamil [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Verant sued one eq erotic fiction writer for tarnishing their IP

accurate and also performed a hi-tec lynching on the author.

banning her from the game.

create porn = get banned. pretty simple. lock thread

[AzzarTheGod]

It was no secret that Smed and Brad were both staunch Christians and that the office in general was very faith oriented in 1999-2002.

I believe I heard rumors there were faith-based questions even asked of potential job applicants. The heads of the company were very religious.

So again, if you wanted to host/create porn and roll the dice while actually trying to play the game-- you were shit out of luck. The entire staff was ideologically opposed to you and you would be named, shamed, and banned in that order.

[Nexii]

Originally Posted by AzzarTheGod [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It was no secret that Smed and Brad were both staunch Christians and that the office in general was very faith oriented in 1999-2002.

I believe I heard rumors there were faith-based questions even asked of potential job applicants. The heads of the company were very religious.

So again, if you wanted to host/create porn and roll the dice while actually trying to play the game-- you were shit out of luck. The entire staff was ideologically opposed to you and you would be named, shamed, and banned in that order.

I don't think it's as simple as that. Everquest always had a lot of dark content and sexual themes. Quests like murdering a pregnant halfling, or murdering a father's daughters for him. Or better yet just look at the Firiona Vie art cover for Kunark, you can't say that isn't rapey. Where the story crossed the line was having an underaged character in it. Granted, Verant handled it horribly, the story was on a third party site that probably very few players ever read. By banning Mystere they probably hurt themselves more than by ignoring it as it got way more attention than it deserved.

[AzzarTheGod]

Originally Posted by Nexii [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I don't think it's as simple as that. Everquest always had a lot of dark content and sexual themes. Quests like murdering a pregnant halfling, or murdering a father's daughters for him. Or better yet just look at the Firiona Vie art cover for Kunark, you can't say that isn't rapey. Where the story crossed the line was having an underaged character in it. Granted, Verant handled it horribly, the story was on a third party site that probably very few players ever read. By banning Mystere they probably hurt themselves more than by ignoring it as it got way more attention than it deserved.

Sure it may not be as simple. These posts prior were ignoring and thereby discounting the role that the religious beliefs of the office that was calling the shots had-- perhaps because they are naive, or maybe just low info posters.