In what way? All they did was acknowledge that the Hot Coffee mod unlocks code that's otherwise inaccessible.
I'm so tired of hearing about this crap...
At first they said it was not there, when it was. Then they admitted it was there all along.
The tort lawyers will latch onto that apparent intent to decieve like a slug on a mushroom.
Hey, I dislike tort cases like this too, but I think that's what will happen.
Hmm, isn't President Hillary interested in video games, GTA in particular? Wonder if the grandmother in this case knows her.
They are responsible for the code they sell. If the code is there, it is their responsibility. The fact that you need a hack to access it is irrelevant. They put the code there, so they have to answer for it.
The cynical would say that this is all a ploy by the manufacturer to generate a second wave of interest in a game that was successful largely on the strength of being controversial. After a year, people were acclimated to what was previously controversial (the theft and murder), so the company releases the code to access the hidden sex through a back channel...
Brilliant marketing, but just plain illegal. The company should be made to pay, big time. I don't think they should lose all profits, as the suit asks. But I would not be upset to see them lose all profits realized since the hack became common knowledge.
Or do you think this hack was innocently discovered by some third party?