Was it REALLY necessary to put in the Pedophilia and Desperate Stalker Search Engine?

I agree about how useless a feature this is, but in your dramatics you overlooked one thing -- it's between pixels in a game, nowhere does it promote a relationship outside of it.

Pop a xanax and play the game.

And getting married in PWI is okay??? Get real.

ParasiteEve_ - Raging Tide wrote: »

I for one am truly aghast by the implementation of your Match.com feature, WHAT THE HELL are you trying to promote here ??

I hope your company stands total liability should anything happen to your influential and vulnerable underage players and well as all the single women and men who risk being harassed using that feature!!!

Really you people are trying to turn an online game into something else which I'm sure you lack the safety precautions for.


I'm very disappointed PWI that you guys choose to go down this path.

totally agree with you. since PWI is a 13 years and older game, i am waiting for the lawsuits to start from unhappy parents. nothing like letting the pedos target a specific age (ie under 18). sad what PWE will do for money.

bluestuffzzz wrote: »

Even though I understand what you're getting at, getting married in-game is a bit different. It's implied by the game's ToS that you are above a certain age, and getting married in-game doesn't specifically state anything about age. It's implied that the two people are of age. Also, getting married costs money in-game (coins or real life cash), so it's expected that you have invested time for coins, or have money in real life.

On the other hand, this matchmaker actually has tiers of ages. When they say under 18, it's implied that the person is a minor.

But in marriage, two people don't know each others age, female player might be under 18 and male player might be 30+, is that right then? And PWI never mentioned that these lovers we must meet now in real life etc, they didn't say that this is now real thing. This lover thing might be for the reason that we find someone who is match in game and then later marry in-game? Because its actually hard to find someone to get married with. Hopefully you understood this point, kinda hard to explain.

Not sure if you saw it but we have new optimization button to which you can press and see all people around you naked (well in under ware).

Nice addition to new pedo service.

Its an OPTIONAL feature. You don't have to use it.

Maybe what the GM said holds some water that they will make sure its not abused.

In the interm, don't use it. I know I won't be using it. Hell, I even think marriage in the game is a joke.

Don't like it?
1 - Don't use it.
2 - Ignore it.
3 - If you can't do neither of the steps above, leave the game.

Now, only because a bunch of butthurt people don't like the system and are all like "ermahgerd pedos loliconz think of the childrene", does PW have to remove or simply don't implement new features? You funny.

Gwendolynne - Heavens Tear wrote: »

I fail to see how this is anything like you guys are talking about. 1 its optional you can ignore ignore ignore it without ever touching it. 2, It's stupid it's non specific as well as it seems to be very random.

I tested it out earlier answered the same exact way on two online characters. They were never matched for anything at all. I changed the answers slightly and did about 10 more tests, they were never matched. Not when I kept their answers the same, nor when I differed them slightly. Also, each toon got different matches than the other even when I "refreshed" the listing.

Honestly, I think you guys are blowing this out of proportion in a major way. Just ignore it and go on with your life, let silly people have their silly fun.

This isn't anywhere near as drastic as they are trying to make it seem, I'm quite sure. This system has been either ignored, giving a few laughs to people, or working in lieu of people finding their 'mentors/friends/lovers' and actually talking more outside of their FIs and circles due to sheer entertainment. I've no idea how many people have PM'd me asking to squad up, do a quest together, or simply say hi to me since this was placed in, and I've added about five of them to my FI due to having a cool conversation or playing around with them. Hell, I even joined a faction to play with most of them more.

Can it be abused? Of course, like almost everything else, people can find a way to use it for troll reasons. But its optional and the people who contact you can be ignored/blacklisted.

Is it working for its intended purposes? From what I've seen, yes.

Also:

Not sure if you saw it but we have new optimization button to which you can press and see all people around you naked (well in under ware).

Nice addition to new pedo service.

If my memory serves correctly, loong, loong before TB or EG or even Genies, some websites had an [illegal] patch out for PWI that allowed you to see the characters completely nude if they went into their default fashion modes. Trust me, if there were perverts on this game, between Marriage and Patches like those, this new system won't change a thing.

Malei - Sanctuary wrote: »

This isn't anywhere near as drastic as they are trying to make it seem, I'm quite sure. This system has been either ignored, giving a few laughs to people, or working in lieu of people finding their 'mentors/friends/lovers' and actually talking more outside of their FIs and circles due to sheer entertainment. I've no idea how many people have PM'd me asking to squad up, do a quest together, or simply say hi to me since this was placed in, and I've added about five of them to my FI due to having a cool conversation or playing around with them. Hell, I even joined a faction to play with most of them more.

Can it be abused? Of course, like almost everything else, people can find a way to use it for troll reasons. But its optional and the people who contact you can be ignored/blacklisted.

Is it working for its intended purposes? From what I've seen, yes.

Also:

If my memory serves correctly, loong, loong before TB or EG or even Genies, some websites had an [illegal] patch out for PWI that allowed you to see the characters completely nude if they went into their default fashion modes. Trust me, if there were perverts on this game, between Marriage and Patches like those, this new system won't change a thing.

Quoting for truth P: I agree.

It might have been useful 4 or 5 years ago when there was a lot of people playing the game. Now with a declining player population and more leaving the game every month, it's nothing but a useless piece of redundant garbage. To be used by bored players who are hell bent on spamming and harassing others through that system.

Someone needs help with quests or culti, they already use the existing system called Join a Faction.
Someone wants to make a friend or find a mentor, they already use the existing system called Join a Faction.
Someone wants to find an in-game marriage mate, they already use the two existing systems called Join a Faction and World Shout.

So why is this even needed?

Ignore it? I so try to. I have the dang thing turned of.. nothing in any of the settings. Only one small problem, there is now way to turn off that stupid blinking icon without opening the the dang thing. As if 1 blinking Icon wasn't enough now there are more.

So every time I switch characters log out and back in I have to deal with it. Ignore it? Can't be done. You'd think that an intelligent dev would have thought up some kind of setting thing for "options", like someone said it was, where we could place a check-press a button then have it written to our ini files so these pointless so called options wouldn't even load.

PWE keeps coming up with these stupid ideas thinking it will enhance the game instead of listening to what few players they have left and taking care of things that are needed to be taken care of instead of trying to fix stuff that was never broken. Keep up your good work PWE - PWI and keep losing more players.

If couple of blinking icons annoy you and you can't ignore it, then something must be really wrong with you. Doesn't bother me at all.

I don't see what the problem is here, guys. I'm an underage girl looking for love! *puts on Chris Hansen outfit*

Deltasin - Dreamweaver wrote: »

This is a lot of uproar over practically nothing.

I discovered the "underwear button" as I am calling it last night. I'm not sure how seeing avatars in nice undies counts as pedophilia as the avatars don't look like children. Even if a minor is operating that sin, it doesn't mean that it counts as pedophilia.

And considering how many guys I know play female toons, I'm not sure how successful the lover option is anyways.

Also, not sure how much pedophilia could be going on with people unable to talk about ***** going into ***** and then maybe a ***** followed by a ******. Over and over again, with the ******, and the ******. Its not going to warp kids' minds.

Hopefully, Mommy or Daddy took a minute to tell the kiddies, "if it doesnt feel right - Blacklist it!"b:chuckle

Azura - Lost City wrote: »

Pedophilia? There shouldnt be any kids playing this game anyway. What's your point?

ehh well this game is for 13+

ParasiteEve_ - Raging Tide wrote: »

I for one am truly aghast by the implementation of your Match.com feature, WHAT THE HELL are you trying to promote here ??

I hope your company stands total liability should anything happen to your influential and vulnerable underage players and well as all the single women and men who risk being harassed using that feature!!!

Really you people are trying to turn an online game into something else which I'm sure you lack the safety precautions for.


I'm very disappointed PWI that you guys choose to go down this path.

why dont u talk from ur MAIN and not from an ALT? what a coward.
i don't know why ppl r so senstive nowadays... its a silly game with non-sexual content.. the new update is inofensive.. and i am sure facebook is by far worse than this new system..
just relax and stop nagging about silly things. If u dont like pwi anymore then D E L E T IT