The first thing I noticed is not a single one was overweight, ugly or nerdy. Now Im not saying all gamers are...Im just saying if you throw 10 of them in one place, theres a very good chance some will be. And if none of them are, there is something very very wrong going on.

I've been bad...

glorified booth babes?

I bet they get paid a boat load more than UBI's janitor.

Hey, it's boring downloading the Eve client over a 56k dialup.

(Zoidberg)Woop! Woop! Woop!

So let me get this straight: Crick threw a typo in a screen resolution so he's retarded? Eh, I always get the feeling that guys who jump on the "You are being male biased" bandwagon are, generally vainly, attempting to get laid.

edit: Well it's nice that everyone was friends at the end, or something. I didn't notice there were 4 pages before I posted first, I'm the retarded one.

My trolling is both subtle and devious. I'm not one to post CHRIST IS LORD and chuckle. I'll try to rattle a few cages before it ends.

And I predict it will end in Fire. [/Kosh]

p.s. I think you have something with the "Want to get laid" aspect. I may have to steal it for tomorrow's topic. RU FEM IRL? OMG!

YOINK!

Looks like Boing Boing's been on the case as well

Damn. I -know- Valkyrie, on the far right. She deserves better than this crap. I'd talked to her before this all came about, and I had my reservations, but this is just ... BAD.

Ubisoft marketing goes *pfft* once again. I mean, yeah, when I think Ubisoft, I think "frag." Woo, let's go play some more Myst, it's sooo HARDCORE!

http://www.mono211.com/ffwd/archives/000794.html

Astroturfing is much easier when you make the turf yourself.

Mm, booth babes. (Or rather, Frag Dolls playing Ubi's Rainbow Six 3.)

I feel like responding on that thread, but Im to lazy to register.

I am curious if this has happened before tho. Is this the first example of a company hireing gamers to create a website, post possitive examples of gameplay, and travel around playing their games? Or is this just the first example a game company hireing attractive girls to do that job, and thats the reason its gathered so much notice.

Of course I wouldnt even have known of its existence if it wasnt for this article. And after reading it, it doesnt exactly make me want to run out and buy ubisoft games (not that its stopping me either.) So Im not really sure how effective this form of advertiseing is. Maby if I was a naive 13 year old, and really into white chicks, I would be all over Ubi games right now. Who knows.

Edit: forgot to mention that they are to damn skinny.

Gold. Pure gold.

Too rich.





Hahahahaha. For Pete's sake, change Crick's name to Neuter Crick so as not to offend teh masses with teh paternal oppression.

Wow, that thread at the UBI forums sure contains a crapload of bullshitting.

Hot diggity diggity damn! We haven't had a good shitstorm in a while, and I was getting tired of ATITD's sexist trader.

/HedonistBot "Let the games...BEGIN!!!"

I wish to god I had something new to bring to the table, but I don't. "I want to be a Gucci troll," etc etc. At least now there are newbies to this particular clusterfuck, for all-new fun and games.

For the record, all female gamers I know are good looking (if that really matters as much as a rat's ass in a shitting contest). I've never met an "ugly girl-gamer," so I have to wonder how the heck that stereotype started.

Maybe it's because of the same stereotype that boy-gamers had; the nerdy greasy look. Nowadays of course that's not true, but it certainly was in the past. So maybe the ladies had the opportunity to skip that phase of "nerdliness?" I dunno.

I'll be posting a piece about this myself as someone that applied and was interviewed. I feel I dodged a huge bullet.

The girls CAN play but I'm severely disappointed in Ubi and perhaps it was my two girls in the background that made them go 'psst.. we want single women' along with my attitude that I'd smack down pastey faced trolls that tried to give me problems that they didn't like. ;)

If they wanted to be taken seriously they needed to do a lot of things differently, but I guess I'll save that for my article. mwahahaha

Intriiiiguing.

Very amusing.

This one struck me on the first page of ratman's troll..


Crick, your typo means you obviously made the whole thing up, and there's no way that this could be a marketing gimmick! You lied to us, Crick, you lied!!one!11

Ubi says:
The Frag Dolls are an all-female gaming team who is out to show the world that gaming isn’t just for the boys.

My opinion, and I just happen to be a real women who games:

1. Be fucking honest about who the FD audience is. It is the 15-25 yr old male demographic. WHO is actually posting on those FD forums?
2. Clue: IF you want to attract the "real female gamer" show women with at least a variety game interests, ages, sizes, and pick another name that isn't insulting. Why not show at least some with the more popularly female games or actually provide a little depth?
3. Pick a side and stick with it - YOU CAN'T DO BOTH. Had you said they were strictly booth babes that could play, I wouldn't give a shit and seen it as a pathetic but not cared. Pass them off as your attempt to advertise to women and everyone thinks you are a moron. Besides, it pisses off me and most of the other REAL women gamers.

Crap like this only strengthens the argument that very little consideration (if any at some companies) is given to the gamer who is female. Don't bother advertising to me - just don't ANTI advertise. I want to see that ANYONE in marketing actually understands the entire audience (not just the male 15-25), and if you don't fucking pay someone who does. I want more women to play, but this kind of advertising only perpetuates the negative myths about women gamers and makes gaming seem that much more geeky to real women not getting paid who otherwise might have tried it.

Go say it on the mountain!