News: Virtual Girlfriend

Talk about loser. Some nut in this software company somehow thought it was a good idea to sell a subscription based virtual girlfriend.

The article goes like this...

MEN, are you tired of the time, trouble and expense of having a girlfriend? Irritated by the difficulty of finding a new one?

Mr Eberhard Schoeneburg, chief executive of Hong Kong software maker Artificial Life, may have found the answer: A virtual girlfriend named Vivienne who goes wherever you go.

[...]Vivienne, the product of computerised voice synthesis, streaming video and text messages, is meant not only to bring business to Artificial Life - she will be available for a monthly fee of US$6 (S$10), not including the airtime costs paid to cellphone operators or the price of virtual chocolates and flowers [... which costs between] 50 US cents to US$2.

Firstly, one of the reasons this software will not sell is that it is damn loser. It claims to be able to let users test out scenarios with a virtual girlfriend before the real thing. Which basically means that if you buy her a gym membership, she will get offended. Dude, I can tell you that without even asking for a cent.

Second, the subscription fee is inhibitive. Not only do you have to pay US$6 a month, you have to pay for her chocolates and flowers?!? Also mentioned in the article is that the program limits users to an hour of playtime a day. Seriously, I'd rather pay for a Tamagotchi and play all I want, paying nothing more than the initial cost.

It's just amazing the things people think they can sell. This dumb software company that is actually throwing money into this junk is going into my blacklist. Then again, you never know, if people would pay thousands of dollars for a grandma-looking LV bag, maybe they will pay for subscription girlfriends as well. If I see anyone who bought it, I promise to laugh out loud in their face for being such a loser. Frankly, I think paying for porn or prostitutes is a better deal.