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Look, CDProjekt, I don't have a problem with Geralt being a womanizer. It was ancient times and it fitted the character and the setting. The card collection, well, I wasn't happy with it, because that was taking something that fitted the game and trivializing it, but I could live with it. The same way I could live with the Playboy magazines in Mafia II, they more or less fitted the setting and, damn!, those girls were hot. But this is reaching a point in which I'm not comfortable buying the game anymore. You are obviously using women bodies as simple product to sell. And you have partnered with Playboy, a magazine that has been objectifying women for decades (and is slowly invading the world of video games, by the way).

CDProjekt, please, stop this, don't go this route. We don't need more abuse of the female forms in video games, it's a fucking epidemic already.

I will pass this one, but, if you keep using this kind of advertisement, I will have to revoke my preorder. If you don't respect your female characters, I cannot respect you as developers either. And that would be a shame, you guys used to be cool.

EDIT: And I didn't even remembered the stupid calendar! Seriously, one last chance.

Different country, different culture.

Why is it so wrong to like looking at naked women? the only thing they should do ihmo is make another calendar but with all the male characters, so no one can complain.

My honest question is why do you think that posing in an adult magazine is disrespecting women. I mean, in the meat-world the girls who do that do it for themselves, not because someone forces them, nor do they consider it demeaning as you seem to imply.

And objectifying women? Seriously? I guess depending on what magazines you read, but I can assure you that Playboy certainly doesn't do that.

Yeah, it's pretty filthy. Right up there with The Simpsons appearing on Playboy. Also, this apparently mirrors the scene in the opening game, uncensored. It comes off as needlessly crass, especially since there's so much more to the narrative than Geralt fucking a bunch of women and collecting them.

I don't mind nudity, or sex. What I mind is nudity being used to sell a game. It insults the buyer, because they don't want to be seen as poon hounds who purchase a game because of the virtual sex within.

Rumour has it they already did.

And don't forget there is Playgirl! Of course, I guess the naked men aren't being objectified because men are supposed to like sex, where women are suppose to shun it.

It's just nudity and sex. Unfortunately, America is sexually repressed due to the boom of protestant ideals back in the early 1900s. We were close to following in Europe's footsteps where nudity wasn't that big of a deal, as can be seen by a lot of the old architecture in the different cities, such as Washington, DC.

But, we Americans love to be different for the sake of being different. Thus, nudity is a no no.

Sex sells.

Playboy objectifies women....well now. That's as wrong as saying prostitution objectifies women. It only does to someone who is incapable of thinking with anything besides his dick, in which case it's still him doing the objectifying and not Playboy; if Playboy wasn't around, he'd feel the same thing about the underwear models in Sears -- any woman, in fact.

Playboy portrays it in an artistic way, a lot of the models consider it a honor to be apart of the magazine, All of the poses are done tastefully and are designed to show how beutiful the girl is as opposed to those in sexual shots or positions. Theres even a male variant by the same company to dispel the sexist theory.

Personally pixelated naked imagery has no effect or would cause me to buy a game if that was its sole premise, Its part of the game mainly to add effect to how common Sisters of Night were back then and adds to the depth of character almost like to the degree like it is in James Bond where its get the girl/s, kill the bad guy which seems to be a common theme in action themed media.

Plus being animated I fail to see how this could cause offence, Its not like the pixelated women was forced to pose in front of the camera either, Im sure they will incorperate a patch or option to turn it down like they would with gore, I always fail to see how its less offensive to hack something limb from limb or brutally kill innocent people in a frenzy then it is to see a pixilated naked body.

Americans are prudes.

Said the man responding to a thread started from someone from Spain...

spanish are prudes, too.

This. It constantly amazes me that people are okay with violence, but object to the appearance in a game of something you can see on any beach during the Summer ...

Americans are MUCH more comfortable with blood, gore, and wanton murder than, say, a nipple. Anyone's nipple. Whereas in most of Europe it's the opposite. And then you get a magazine like Playboy that's been pushing the envelope in a variety of different ways for half a century now, doing what it does best.

Interestingly enough, immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Playboy was in HUGE demand in the Eastern Bloc. It was like the #2 most desired commodity (after working automobiles).