[Update] Conan Exiles Manager Explains Dong Slider ImplementationVidGamePedia

Joel Bylos explores Exiles' most unorthodox feature.

Warning: this postal service contains gifs of, in addition to makes reference to, digital genital customisation every bit it features inwards Funcom's Conan Exiles.
Conan Exiles is fast approaching its outset Early Access anniversary, having entered Steam's pre-release inaugural on Jan 31, 2017. Which way Mr Weebl's NSFW music video celebrating the game's dong physics is also almost 1 yr old. Good luck getting it out of your caput if you lot followed that link.
Chris' explicit gif-filled study on Exiles' endowment slider was PCGamer.com's most read tidings storey finally year. As such, spell catching upwards amongst manager Joel Bylos almost the terra firma of the opened upwards globe survival game 1 yr on, I felt it entirely correct to, ahem, swing dorsum circular to its genital simulation.
"When nosotros decided to exercise it, when nosotros discussed it internally," Bylos tells me. "We asked: 'does it tally the setting, should nosotros exercise it, in addition to is it problematic?' We basically decided that there's zero sexual inwards the game, it does tally the setting, in addition to it was like: 'who's done dicks before? Sure, why not, let's exercise it'.
"We in addition to thence talked almost it amongst marketing in addition to they wanted to brand a large bargain of it. I said, no, let's not, let's non utter almost it at all, let's convey people discovery out almost it the twenty-four hours they play the game—let's non tell a damn affair almost it inwards our marketing. I got them on board amongst that.
"Our marketing squad is pretty skillful at playing upwards the features inwards a game—to convey something that large non last advertised, I recollect simply took a lot of people yesteryear surprise. It in addition to thence became a large affair for us. The work is, of course, nosotros can't top it amongst anything."

NSFW but Conan Exiles has an endowment slider. Big dong, picayune dong, large dong, picayune dong pic.twitter.com/MNgGsmlv32January 30, 2017

Bylos explains that spell the ESRB (America's Entertainment Software Rating Board) agreed Exiles wasn't sexual inwards nature—"they understood it wasn't a porno game"—it does non allow genitals to last shown every bit a rule. PEGI (Europe's Pan European Game Information system), on the other hand, thought it was fine in addition to were peradventure to a greater extent than concerned yesteryear the game's gore in addition to violence. Steam of course of study bypasses these restrictions.
Bylos continues: "I was actually happy because it could last controversial, right? It seemed by in addition to large that women were like: 'finally, a dick slider, which is similar a boob slider that games convey had for years'. Women were happy, then, in addition to men thought it was hilarious, thence it was completely fine. That was the entirely affair I was worried almost beforehand, that someone mightiness last upset. But nobody was upset, thence that worked out especially well."
Exiles' endowment sliders may non last sexual inwards nature, but the thought is however a wee chip out there. I inquire Bylos how he in addition to his squad outset responded to the idea.
"I recollect nosotros all simply had a chuckle," he says, "and everyone simply looked at each other in addition to said: 'who's going to tell Jenny?' She's the graphic symbol creative soul who would convey to procedure it all. She thought it was hilarious, too. She had reference dicks on her hide for almost a week. Every fourth dimension people walked yesteryear she would convey a hide total of dicks, which was form of funny."
Look out for our total interview amongst Joel Bylos on Conan Exiles adjacent week.