Funny - I didn't get that vibe from the "Rabbit Girl" in the Wildstar trailers at all. She seemed like an adult to me. With the caveat that she was a bit of a "ditzy" adult. (Not unintelligent, just easily distracted).
(EDIT: I also don't want to hate on DCUO for the sidekick thing. It's really not possible to make something as outrageous with it as anything from Blade and Soul. And we do NOT need to be drawing attention to a staple of American comics that could be turned against us in our campaign here. )
I REALLY don't want to hate on Wildstar too much. They're in the same unenviable boat as the people at Arenanet. They are doing some damn good work. I only wish they could find a way to do it for a company other than NCSoft. I don't want to go negative on them so much as I'd like to encourage them to find any way out from under NCSoft that's possible.
I don't think that we have as much traction in that regard with Arenanet, and I don't think we should even try to hurt them. All we can do is refuse to give NCSoft OUR money. But they've already made most of the sales they're going to make there with the launch. And both they and Wildstar are North American employees. So... I'd hate to cause THEM to lose their jobs. But with Wildstar there's enough lead time that maybe we can have a non-destructive effect there - cause them to break from NCSoft and find another publisher perhaps.
In regards to the lolicon/borderline pedo stuff. Yeah - probably not going to fly. Not in any strictly legal sense.
But here's the important bit - both with that angle and the more overt objectification of females in B&S - listen up.
They are SOCIAL angles. Tools that we can use. And yes, Mantic, I am USING the squick factor consciously.
These are tools that NCSoft has unwittingly GIVEN us to beat them over the head with using the social media (facebook, twitter, livejournal, blogger, etc) and I fully endorse the idea of us USING them to build negative PR memes. And we have MORE than enough lead time before B&S is even released to make a MAJOR headache for them.
So yeah - let's concentrate on the obvious jiggle and tease softcore elements of the human females at first. See if that gains traction. Retweet that video that's been posted above a few times with desultory comments! Post it back to NCSoft's facebook page saying "we're not interested in this and won't be paying money for it!"
Push the story to CNN, Fox, MSNBC, etc. Doesn't matter!
The more saturation we have on the topic on OUR terms before NCSoft realizes what's happening, the better!
In military terms, get inside their OODA loop. (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act). It's not always the guy who makes every perfect decision possible who wins, it's the guy who reacts faster overall.
That's why social media can be such a game changer these days. We have FAR more power to move minds than has been available even 5 years ago!
One last thing. And it's VERY IMPORTANT.
Comedy. Satire. Ridicule.
Turjan had the right idea - MOCKING Taek Jin Kim in his cartoon paneled strip.
We need MORE like that. We need not to come off as OUTRAGED. We need to be making FUN of NCSoft for their idiocy!
We need to make the entire CONCEPT of Blade and Soul being released in America to be exactly what it is - A BAD JOKE. Something to ridicule. Something to LAUGH AT.
If we can make it so that we turn the gamers lusting after Blade and Soul currently into gamers who don't want to ADMIT that they play it for fear of that ridicule - of being MOCKED for it. I will consider it mission accomplished.