The "Loli" trend in video games(Rant about TERA and other games with these characters.)

Elin are not as popular as you think, and this infographic is far before Gunners,

The big error of that graphic is that it's counting characters created not characters played.

Elin are without a doubt the most played race in the game. One only has to walk through the game's common areas or watch/play PVP to see that they're everywhere to and in grate quantities.

I once physically counted the characters AFK/standing around Velika's common gathering area and ended up with 5 Elin characters to every 5 non elin characters. This was shortly before the release of their Reaper class(Elin Only.)

but I won't go so far as to demonize those playing it.

While I find it very wrong to instantly assume the pedophilia factor when it comes to societies perception, this isn't general children that were dealing with when it comes to these games.

We're dealing with the direct sexualization of children. http://tera-cdn1.enmasse-game.com/datastore/images/2013/10/14/20/34/01/167/Devil_E_thumb.jpg The back of those panties is a thong.

I mean just looking at a range of their outfits, there's a definitive sexualization of children when it comes to this game.

It's not just that someone is playing a child like character, but that the character is not just child like, but it's also sexualized.

I find it tragic there's such a stigma these days that makes them a pedo for no reason except for being male.

No so surprisingly, I actually talked to a few female players who play Elin because they like Lolicon.

TERA's big appeal is it's sexual pandering, and it has blatant attempts at sexualizing children. It's not a simple idea of a grey area or just child depections, but rather actually sexualized images of children and then the player making these choices to acquire these outfits.

Reasoning can only go so far until there's a definitive pattern associated.

A male player and even a female player playing a childlike character that's dressed in a sexy outfit, creeps me out.

/r/GirlGamers Thread Parent