It would seem that the Miss Bimbo game developers really are taking heed of the things being said about them.  This is new:

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Is that a disclaimer I see?

So, to sum up the changes I've seen since I started playing.

  1. Diet pills were taken off of the site and replaced with "medicine pills" which, presumably, will help a sick Bimbo but will not cause weight loss.
  2. A greater range of clothing has been introduced, including trousers, more sensible tops and a choice betwene revealing or modest clothing.
  3. The game developers are pointing out that real-life surgery is different.
The changes are good.  Whilst I may have my own personal gripes about the game, I recognise that these are personal preferences.  For example, I do not liek the fact that these dolls are called Bimbos.  Nor do I like that the starting IQ is so very far below average.  From a HAES point of view, the weight loss and gain issues are problematic, but since the rest of society as a whole does't embrace HAES as yet, I'm not going to hold that against the game.  Besides which, there is a goal later in the game to become a plus-size model, with positive descriptors used. 

When I first started looking into this game, there were a large number of clearly quite problematic issues.  The game developers were targetting the game at children, and paying minimal lip-service to parental consent.  However, they weren't taking note of the fact that children, whilst certainly far more intelligent than most people give them credit for, are not adults and the younger players will not necessarily be able to discern intuitively which parts of the game are unrealistic and potentially harmful.

Now, however, a number of small, yet significant, changes have been made.  This still isn't a game I would encourage children to play, just as I would not encourage them to play with Bratz dolls or any other toys that focus on promoting a heavily gendered and stereotyped image of What Girls Are.  But this isn't a game I would feel overly concerned about letting children play with any more, either.

The only issue right now that I am really concerned with is the skin colour issue.  This is certainly no small issue, but I don't yet have enough information to draw any conclusions, and at the moment every time I try to enter the tanning/scouring room the game logs me out, so I can't test this.  However, I hope that if I am right the game developers will continue to listen as they have thus far, and alter this so that the Bimbos don't all start out whiter than a teenage goth in bad theatrical make-up.

More on this if I do manage to test this.