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nexus:

--- Quote from: neomang5 ---Rockstar may have acted stupidly, but they haven't really done anything wrong as far as I can see.
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Well leaving the code in the game was stupid, yes. But what they did wrong was to lie to the ESA, the media, and whatever politicians were in the mix by saying that the content was added by the "Hot Coffee" mod and it didn't unlock content (a blatant lie which -- to my knowledge -- they still stick to). In the current climate, that is a big wrong. One for which they deserve to be punished in some form.

If they had just said, "Oh, fuck, we're idiots, yeah we forgot to remove that content from the game. We apologize, if we need an 'Ao' rating so be it, we'll put out a new version with that content removed entirely." I doubt it would be nearly the big deal it was.

But that would have been the mature and sensible thing to do. Instead of acting like a big company, Rockstar and Take2 acted like a teenager who just got caught with pot in his/her room and tried any escuse they can think of to place blame elsewhere.

Like I said, now that they acted this way, politicians have fodder to say "game developers are hiding evil things in the games your kids play and lying about it. we need to regulate them." Sensationalistic of course, but the entire thing could have been avoided if Rockstar & Take2 would have acted like something other than buttfuckidiots.

maxusy3k:
Every Grand Theft Auto game brings a whole new world of controversy to the table, whether it's kids going out and gunning down whoever they feel like and the parents blaming the game, or something like this... Rockstar messed up, and it's going to have huge ramifications, but it's not like they've never dealt with it before and I'm pretty sure GTA is still one of the biggest video game franchises out there.

The only problem now is that the groups who hammer practically every video game have won support and press. This will no doubt lead to more games being targeted, as pointed out in the Gamespot article about The Sims 2. It's these consequences I'm most worried about...

How long before people realise Pac-Man was munching pills that whole time, or that Mario needed 'mushrooms' to increase his strength?

*sigh*

Addius:
Perhaps it's time we started pointing out that the problem here is not all "politicians" but mainly right-wing christian politicians, or politicians who try to get voters from this mass, which is probably the greatest political power in the US.

The rest of the world simply points, laughs, forget about it and moves on.

And let's all be honest.. We all know (atleast those of us who's been following Rockstar throughout the years) that they let that code stay there on purpose. They wanted people to find the code, hack it and use it, that's their style. They probably couldn't care less if they are rated as AO, because the people who buy their games doesn't care either.

About the Sims 2 hack it's all silly. You need some basic model to build the character of, avoiding this is near impossible if you still want efficient code left.


Does this mean that they won't change anything in the Xbox version though?

JJMitchell:

--- Quote from: ironoxide887 ---
Seriously though, people. It is perfectly natural for people to bump ugly. Yet it is completely inappropriate to kill.

Why is this reversed in the media?
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I wish I knew why.  To me it makes no damn sense anyway since if parents bought this game for their kids its their own damned fault.  I know most parents don't take the time to find out what is in a game but geez.  Maybe I'm just pissed because sex isn't okay but violence isn't.

I don't know about you folks but i haven't shot anyone but I've had sex before.  Maybe the crazy people are reversed.

Switchblade:
Stupidity comes from two sources. The most basic is birth. Stupidity can, however, also be a factor of influence - the more powerful a person is, the more stupid their actions become.

I just raise a friendly "fuck you" to the lot of them and do my own thing, it saves time.

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