Not exactly. I'm saying that sexualized card art part of the Shadow Era experience.
It's perfectly possible to create a successful CCG without giant boobs and tiny waists on the cards art, but it would be an entirely different experience. For example, did you ever play
Yu-Gi-Oh! ? In this game you will rarely come across a sexualized card (or human card art, for that matter
) , and it has a really big player base; but playing Yu-Gi-Oh! is a different experience from playing Shadow era, in the same way that watching
300 is a different experience than watching
The Hunger Games: both are action movies, and in both movies people die in violent ways; but
300 goes that extra mile, showing a bit of nudity and a bit of racism, which makes it a different experience.
Without a bit of wasp waists and big boobs, and hairy guys with horns in the helm, Shadow Era wouldn't be better or worse, but different, and it would appeal to different people.
It would be a different game.
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