Alcohol in the game.
I mean, how many recovering alcoholics use this game to escape the reality of the temptations of substance abuse only to have it placed in their face by the inclusion of "Party Mixer" just standing in the street in Omni Trade? It must be pure Hell for them when you realize so many of the events happen in the nightclubs scattered throughout Rubi-Ka and to participate they have to go into these dens of inequity.
Violence against women.
This is horrendous. I can remember my first missions--women collapsing at my feet in pain, gasping out their last breath after I shot them. It was weird. Striking a woman is out of the question for me in the real world, but in spite of my initial discomfort in the game I can now do it with nary a blink. I just wonder how many victims of domestic abuse see this as a fun and necessary part of the game? Or perhaps watching some big tough guy slap around a female gives them flashbacks. Hmm.
Gender confusion
There's this whole Atrox thing. As if the whole sexual identity crisis wasn't tough enough for some young people. Now you can play a sexless entity. This could be very damaging to someone who, rather than face the turmoil of their internal struggle, seeks refuge in the "sexless" persona of an Atrox. And I won't even talk about the whole crossgender possibilities. Imagine the reawakened trauma of an ex-girlfriend who turned out to be a transvestite that occurs when, after weeks of grouping and talking with "****eywench", "she" reveals that "she" is really a 16 year old boy in Bakersfield, California, working on his roleplaying skills. OH THE HORROR!
I think that AO in toto is just a plot by those subversives in Norway, who are as noted in another post no doubt uncaring and emotionless baztards that probably hate America/Mom/Apple Pie, to erode our mental and emotional stability.
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