Funcom apologizes for involuntary breast reductions

by Chris Chester Jun 3rd 2008 at 9:00AM

Filed under: Fantasy, Age of Conan, Bugs, Forums

We'll have to be completely honest with you; ever since Jorgen Tharaldsen's famous proclamation,"You'll see titties," the topic of Age of Conan and its famously epic mammaries is one that comes up rather frequently around the Massively offices. What can we say, we're admirers of the female form... also, we like boob jokes. In any case, we were rather distressed to hear of some Age of Conan players complaining that their in-game counterparts were lacking a certain lactoid luster.

It might seem like a frivolous complaint, but from the images provided by a forum user named Gust, it's become evident that the change in chesticle size is actually significant. And Funcom is taking the complaint seriously, saying in part, "Funcom can confirm that some of the female models in the game have had the size of their breasts changed. This is due to an unintended change in data that was introduced in an earlier patch, data which controls the so-called morph values associated with character models and the size of their respective body parts. We are working on a fix for this and your breasts should be back to normal soon." It's sporting of them admit their mistake, and hopefully they'll have it fixed as quickly as many of the other bugs they've had since launch.

[Via Kotaku]

Tags: age-of-conan, aoc, boobs, breasts, bugs, character-models, female, forums, funcom, gust, kotaku

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Hot$auce_Magik said on 10:15AM 6-03-2008

+1 for usage of the term "Lactoid Luster"

Rational said on 3:22PM 6-03-2008

I've been impressed with how quickly they're moving to address bugs and add basic functionality that got overlooked before release. There's a lot for them to do!

Quite frankly I hadn't even noticed the breast reduction, although probably because I hadn't gotten around to rolling a female character yet. But I'm SOOO glad they're going to fix it and not say "working as intended".

If I'm going to play a female, I would prefer her to look prominently mammalian. That's the whole point! You don't see any women in Boris Vallejo's barbarian paintings looking petite in the chest area.