in which I froth in rage forever.

[lassarina]

(Hat tip to synthclarion, who shared via Twitter.)

So, EA encourages you to sexually harass and grope their booth babes at ComicCon. Even better, if you do it the most obnoxiously, then you get to go out for "a SINful" evening with two hot women as a reward!

Someone please whack some sense into whatever marketing asshole thought this one up.I have so many

Comments

[phoenix_crow]

I can't say that I have been to conventions or the like, but it is my understanding that taking photos with "booth babes" is common practice. Perhaps I am wrong? If I am not, then all they are really doing is encouraging people to do what they normally do anyways. I suspect that most of the women know what that they may be asked to have there picture taken with strangers.

I'm not trying to justify what they are doing, I believe they (booth babes) shouldn't be there in the first place. I can understand having people dressed up like characters that are in the game your promoting, but often times booth babes are just there too look pretty. And it might as well be a soft core strip joint. I find it a bit sad that people still find that having them there will help them sell more.

I'm not really that angry at EA, but I am angry at the fact that humanity as a whole still feels that this is still a legitimate way for doing things. There are times I feel as though we might as well be living in caves and smacking women with clubs to find a mate. Just when I feel like we are going to start advancing away from these tendencies, some one shows me that we are really just running in circles. Quite frankly, humans piss me off.

[lassarina]

The problem isn't the taking photos, although that's symbolic of the deeper issues. The poster specifically encourages people to "commit acts of lust" (direct quote) and take photos of THAT. Taking photos with strangers--fine, whatever. Having to stand there while strangers grope you and get their friends to take pictures--not so much. Additionally, the poster then encourages attendees to seek out OTHER booth babes--ones who don't work for EA--and do the same thing. I am quite sure a number of female attendees of ComicCon were "mistaken" for booth babes as well. It's how this sort of Neanderthal undertaking tends to go.

I absolutely agree that booth babes are an idiotic thing to have and shouldn't be there. Sell your game on its own strength, not on the tits you can put next to it.