Shanda Entertainment Requires Proof Of Gender
Shanda Entertainment - one of Mainland China's heavy hitters in the gaming industry - announced that their subsidiary, Aurora Technology, has frozen accounts of male players who play as female characters in the King of the World MMORPG
. Aurora stipulates that only female gamers can play female characters in the game, and it requires gamers who chose female characters to prove their biological sex with a webcam, according to the report. Just how much the player will be required to reveal and who is watching the webcam? Many players express concerns that this will discourage females from playing games.
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