The Korean MMORPG "The Lost Ark" developed by Smile Gate has landed in Europe and the United States last month, and the game has been extremely popular since its launch. Recently, this free ARPG game has surpassed 20 million players worldwide, becoming the second highest number of online players in Steam history.
However there are some players (female boxing?). However, it expressed disappointment with the game, which included the gender of the occupation and the revealing clothing of the women in the game.
Soumin Park, a brand manager at Amazon Games, recently issued a statement to Eurogamer, noting that these two issues will change in the future.
The class of the characters in The Lost Ark is gender-locked, such as only male characters can become warriors, or only female characters can become magicians. Park told Eurogamer: "Let's start with a gender-locked career, something that has come out over time. The model design of occupations and characters (including character functions and character animation) is closely related, so to bring another gender to a profession is not just to model a role of different genders, it takes more work. ”
Park continued: "However, Smilegate is actively working on this issue, and female Berserkers are the next profession to land in South Korea. While not every profession has both male and female, we will strive to include male and female roles in the starting version of the profession. In the future, Smilegate will bring male and female roles to more occupations that are currently gender-locked. ”
In addition, South Korea's MMORPG has a feature, that is, female characters are more sexy and exposed, greasy sister you know (funny expressions), the same is true in "The Lost Ark". There are some players (female boxing?) Critics said that many of the female characters in the game had their armor or attire with their breasts bare and shoulders, which was very revealing. How did Park respond to this?
Park said: "As for the armor, although we didn't modify any of the costumes in the original game, we were also making some adjustments so that the women's attire that was too revealing did not appear in a prominent position in the center, such as in our marketing campaign, or in the initial character creation interface." We also offer some new clothing options that aren't so revealing, but these are just an add-on, not a replacement. ”
Park continued, "We needed to strike a balance between hardcore fans who wanted to get close to the original Korean Lost Ark experience and new players who might not like the current character's armor or attire, so we added some costume options as an alternative, but didn't remove the option of the original costumes. ”