7 Times The Gaming Industry Fell To Lust
5. Questionable Collectors Editions
So say you're a pervy developer and you've managed to get that lovely gold stamp on your game and it's all ready to ship, the question is, how do you get your product the attention it deserves? Well for some that's a well thought out and detailed advertising campaign, one that pushes prospective players towards the game with incentives and supported with trailers and demos which let them test the game before release. However if that sounds like too much work then you could always chuck a pair of !*$% on some mouse mats and call it a day.
Such is the exact line of thinking that must have gone through the Team Ninja office when they came to promoting Dead Or Alive Xtreme 3, a bird watching simulator of a different variety with an actually half decent volleyball game attached. By this point the offshoot to the perky puncher that was the main Dead or Alive series was already at a point of parody, leaning more towards busts than beach balls with every iteration; however in order to get that real "wow" factor they decided to bundle editions of the game with fake breasted mouse mats, meaning no more would your games of Starcraft suffer stints of swollen joints for now they could rest easy on one of the cast members 'mams. It's utterly ridiculous but clearly something the target audience wanted as these now fetch ludicrous prices online.
And if this isn't your cup of (tit)tea then why not purchase a copy of ludicrously lewd on the rail and straight to jail shooter Gal Gun and get a pair of underwear bundled in the special edition. Now as the albeit limited steam stats have shown, an overwhelming amount of players of this game were men, and not to kink shame anyone but I don't ever want to imagine what those pants were used for, and bear in mind these are meant to be high school students so there's just a HUGE level of grime all over this.
And there are many, many more examples than this, however if you thought paying for a pair of pants is bad, just wait until you hear the sordid tale of our next entry.