Poll: Does sex appeal influence your decision to purchase a game?

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Not at all although I'm female so there's not many lads for me outside bioware and assassins creed

I think gameplay influences me the most. I tend to like games with either an extreme difficulty curve or a relaxing story driven style.

I love roguelikes and I wish there was more games like Recettetear that let you take stuff back and keep some of your progression in some form. Azure Dreams does that too.

 

[Zombie Sodomy]

When it's shit like this:

it will definitely convince me never to play the game, or give anybody even remotely associated with it any of my money ever.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Of course that's why my favorite game features an effeminate man in a green tunic! Wait, I'm not gay and Link still looks like a dude... I guess not then.

I find myself buying many games online and without box art. It's hard to say sex sell when they is no image to put sex into.

 

[Doom972]

If the game is bad, it won't affect my decision, but for a good game it's definitely a plus.

 

[Jiefu]

Looking at my purchase history on Steam, I can pretty safely say it doesn't.

 

[CleverCover]

Yes and no.

If the game has an emphasis on sexiness and hot babes, I know the game is not made for me and will run miles and miles away. So, yes it influences me into saying "No, I won't be buying this game."

Even having a hot dude on the cover won't get me to buy it, how rarely that ever actually happens.

 

[Evil Smurf]

Absolutely not. I don't give a flying fuck whether a game has tits in it or not. I don't actually know ANYONE who would buy a game primarily for the sex appeal. Please tell me where to find them.

Everyone who bought this game for one.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514QNR516XL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

 

[Kopikatsu]

Absolutely not. I don't give a flying fuck whether a game has tits in it or not. I don't actually know ANYONE who would buy a game primarily for the sex appeal. Please tell me where to find them.

Everyone who bought thus game for one.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514QNR516XL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

I bought it for the management gameplay! Playing Sims-esque games where I am a God and can do as I will with those under my dominion gets the loins burnin'.

 

[Evil Smurf]

I bought it for the management gameplay! Playing Sims-esque games where I am a God and can do as I will with those under my dominion gets the loins burnin'.

which is better then a real whore with STDs I suppose.

 

[Eddie the head]

What the game industry considers 'sex appeal', is a big turn-off for me, so if anything, it will be negative.

So that's a yes? You just said it influences if you buy a game.

 

[Ryan Minns]

If it lacks walking tits I don't buy!

On a serious note I can't remember doing so. I have enjoyed it once or twice after the fact but I can't remember it actually influencing my purchase

 

[Paradoxrifts]

Sometimes its what perks my interest in a game, which is needed for me to give it a closer inspection and open up the possibility of a sale in the first place.

 

[Joccaren]

It gets my attention more than more conservative game covers or W/E do, but if there's not actual content on what the game's like to go with it it quickly loses it. Can sees T&A anywhere, can get gameplay that I actually enjoy almost nowhere these days.

 

[thaiguy6557]

I own only Dead or Alive Extreme Beach Volleyball 1 & 2. I have 16 copies of the first one and 23 copies of the 2nd. But I enjoy the gameplay so no, sex doesn't determine if I buy a game or not.

 

[The Lugz]

A little bit, honestly who prefers playing as and watching ugly characters?

now, as some people put it over sexuilisation and pandering are a total turnoff
dead or alive is over the limit, but if a game company just made characters kinda
average and gave them a face-lift and made sure their clothes weren't stupid looking
that's basically perfect for me
oh, and keep the clothes on,
textures in games just aren't good enough for flesh so, just leave it hidden

now if i want to see nudity in a game..

Spoiler

i could just install uber hd nude textures and new models for skyrim, cause heaven knows.. those modders be pervy buggers!

 

[Lieju]

What the game industry considers 'sex appeal', is a big turn-off for me, so if anything, it will be negative.

So that's a yes? You just said it influences if you buy a game.

Possibly. The question was a bit vague.
Rather, the objectification of women will influence my decision to buy a game negatively, having a well-written nerdy mad scientist female character who dresses up practically (sexy for me) will be positive.

But obviously everything influences my decision to buy a game to some extent. It's like asking 'Does the game having a lot of colour yellow influence your decision to buy a game?'.

 

[A Weakgeek]

I wasn't aware we were only discussing game covers. Videogame marketing nowdays is so much more isn't it? Trailers, gameplay videos etc. For example, the new catwoman was a major part of Batman: Arkham city marketing, but she wasn't featured on the cover.

But then the question becomes, how many people bought Arkham city because Catwoman was in it?

Had she not have been, I'd certainly still have bought it. And personally, my choice for buying that game came more from a I want to glide around and break thugs arms whilst shouting "I'm BATMAN!" perspective. Rather than a Catwoman looks pretty fit perspective.

Sex sells. There's no questioning that. But what does it sell? An Anne Summers lingerie line? Probably. A £40 10-15 hour sink hole of flashing lights and violence? Probably not.

It doesn't need to be the factor that finally sells the copy. If they can get your attention for a few seconds more with some sex appeal, it has already influenced you by making you pay attention to the other marketing.

Also sometimes, albeit rarely, you can even use sex appeal to sell your games indirectly. The whole sex controversy surrounding ME2 for example.

 

[chadachada123]

Yes, in the sense that it makes me LESS likely to purchase the game unless it is *extremely* subtle (and thus unnoticed), or unless the game looks awesome *despite* the sleazy advertising.

Games are far more likely to win me over on their Badass Rating.

(I voted other)

 

[SckizoBoy]

For example I would probably not be buying this game:

Y'know... the first time I saw that cover, I thought to myself 'how in hell can she walk normally, much less run?!'

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So... nah... for the most part no... I tend to do lots of research for games I do buy, so whatever the cover is or the 'sex appeal' content is, it barely factors into the reasons for why I buy games. Besides, I've got ecchi anime for that, hasn't everyone else?! ¬_¬