Update: North American Rating Corrected
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Following earlier surprising news stating that no nudity whatsoever will be featured in Age of Conan's North American edition, a new post by Funcom's community manager Shannon "Pharamond" Drake claimed that the same version will in fact, include nipples, but not full nudity:
It has come to our attention that the North American edition of the game was submitted (by Eidos) to the ESRB without any server-side censorship:
-full blood
-full fatalities
-breasts with nipples
-not full nudityThe ESRB reviewed our application and gave us a rating of Mature 17+. The full rating with descriptors has not yet been publicly announced but will be posted on the ESRB web site on 13 February 2008.
This announcement came as a relief to many Conan fans, who would like to keep the brutal and seedy theme of Hyboria intact.
Yeah, it's nothing short of hypocritical to have ONE year difference between Mature (17) and Adults Only(18), yet the big distributors will never sell AO titles in their stores, hence companies like Funcom prefer to compromise down to an M rating for wider exposure.
We'll have to wait for some 3rd party hacks or workarounds I guess; unless you like dry British humor =)
I still think it's ridiculous that we get a seperate version than EU.
What are we? 12 Year olds? Isn't this game intended for people who aren't
going to feel put out about nudity?
Seriously. Censorship like this in the US is starting to get out of hand.
Is there going to be an optional official patch at least?
Sig, I now this is off topic from your post, but I really wanted to know about Age of Conan pvp system.
Do you know if we'll be able to loot items, and how many, on the pvp Aoc servers?
Update: North American Rating Corrected
Following earlier surprising news stating that no nudity whatsoever will be featured in Age of Conan's North American edition, a new post by Funcom's community manager Shannon "Pharamond" Drake claimed that the same version will in fact, include nipples, but not full nudity:
This announcement came as a relief to many Conan fans, who would like to keep the brutal and seedy theme of Hyboria intact.
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