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As the Title says its a Poll to bring back the Original Cover .

Vote here :

http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=52de9ebfe4b08a14ac5d6513

To be honest, I'm not sure what you are really talking about.

Regardless of what the poll says, I do not think it's going to happen. It was changed for a reason. Deal with it.

Different cover, same game, I care about the game personally. They could have a cover picture of a rotten tomato and I'd not take issue with it.

That was the reason :
"A bare belly was for some enough a trigger to send our company enough hate and threatening mails to persuade my boss to ask me to change the cover."

full article :
http://orogion.deviantart.com/journal/Save-the-Boob-plate-380891149

I ain't voting not clicking on those shitty links.

Yes. Your point?

Sometimes your boss asks you to do work things that you may not want to do, but you kinda have to do them, because he is your boss.

Da boss man decided that the best thing for the game was to have a different cover art. I'm not sure how an Internet Poll is going to change his mind.

Who the fuck CAAAAARES.

I don't like either of the cover-arts much, but mainly for reasons of style, not for any alleged sexism.

I will say that while there is nothing wrong with portraying men or women in sexy, unrealistic, fantastic armour or outfits... in the original cover art the woman was wearing sexy gear and the man was not. This is not necessarily bad or a problem in an instance of art itself, yet considering the greater context of the gaming industry, society and world history, I can see why some people would find it objectionable. I can certainly see why some people would prefer a more equally represented cover.

While I agree with the spirit of that deviantart blogpost, I also found it presented a rather simplistic account of the views it is countering. A blanket dismissal of a broad spectrum of opinion as charlatans, and their characterisation as some sort of organised lobby group, undermined the strong points the post made. As such it did little to persuade me to the author's cause.

But then I tend to think that censorship-free speech issues are usually less clear-cut than is generally assumed. And I'm not even sure that the heart of this issue is about censorship anyway. That said, the idea of banning boob-plate strikes me as pretty absurd. Yet how many people are actually calling for that anyway? I've read many valuable and thoughtful opinions on why people may not like boob-plate, or may prefer realistic gear or whatever. Attacking the weakest 'arguments' of the opposing views doesn't do the issue justice.

Regarding the poll in the OP, I am not going to vote for my preference because I don't have much of one.