In what could be the best bug-in-the-wild ever, it appears that a recent patch to Age of Conan had the unintended consequence of changing how endowed the female avatars are. But players, mostly the teenage male demographic naturally, have been told by the publisher not worry as they “are working on a fix for this and your breasts should be back to normal soon.”

Some lessons:

  • Always keep an eye out for accidental breakage; even in seemingly unrelated (body) parts
  • Know your audience and what they want. That knowledge can help you tailor your release checklists

I’m not sure what is most entertaining about this bitw

  • The outcry
  • That it got missed
  • That “check breast size” is now on a checklist somewhere
  • A PR person came into work and had to spend the day wordsmithing responses to complaints about digital bust sizes

I can’t claim to have discovered this; the original article that passed by me is at Wired.