Posted on 07/23/2005 6:07:43 AM PDT by CollegeRepublicanNU
Best Buy has already taken the game off its sheleves and other stores have been reported doing the same.
It is NOT the Governments job to censor our lives. Censorship begins at home, where are the parents when these kids are playing these games?
She discovered the scum bag husband in one of them.
Hillary is just upset that the hidden adult scenes were heterosexual.
This is the same woman who introduced herself to me by appearing naked in the hallways in front of my apartment door and then puking under the door.
So uncouth!
If Rick Santorum had been against "Grand Theft Auto" there would be organized marches for the game.
This is stupid. Most games don't have hidden porn levels. The reason GTA is in trouble is because the porn was put in by the developer.
The developer is not responsible for questionable content created by the user anymore than Sony is responsible for kiddie porn if their cameras are used to create it.
I concur.
Agreed.
lol. Hillary's trying to get Tipper's ladies into her own fold.
The already-in-existence games prices are soaring, but retailers are pulling GTA off the shelves, so Rockstar's revenues will be hurt. I'll bet whoever is responsible for that hidden level is being flogged about now.
Hilllary is barking up the wrong tree if she thinks she can stop this. What I think will probably happen is that, given the notoriety that this has generated, modders will construct their own sex levels entirely independent of the original game, the way Half Life Counterstrike originated.
She won't push any harder - her work here is done. She got her name attached to a problem that she "solved"- all that's left is for her to pull it out during the 2008 campaign to show everyone how powerful she is and how much she cares about your kids (gag....)
Don't forget, the game developers and the rest of the entertainment industry will probably be the largest group out there bankrolling her campaign after George Soros. She won't want to push too hard and risk pissing them off. As far as the industry goes, they'll be happy to let her have this cheap little symbolic victory if it helps the cause, just like drug smugglers arrange to have the corrupt cops on their payrolls make a few cheap busts so they can parade their success in the media and keep their jobs.
Stores took GTA: San Andreas off shelves because the ESA (formerly the ESRB) re-rated it Adults Only, one rank higher than its previous Mature ranking. Most stores will not sell AO-rated games, period. It's the kiss of death for any title, just like how most places won't carry NC-17 movies.
Rockstar is removing the code that the Hot Coffee patch unlocked, and the game will be re-rated Mature.
This has actually kept Hillary away from the gaming industry, because the gaming industry solved its "problem." (I think this Hot Coffee deal was a bunch of BS, to be honest.) Look for the ESA to issue a press release in a couple of weeks talking about how they're continuing to educate consumers and parents about game ratings, yadda yadda.
Point is, Hillary, Lieberman, Lee, and the rest are less likely to bother the gaming industry now. There aren't any other targets of opportunity, unless Hillary wishes to eviscerate Doom 3 for depicting violence against the forces of Hell. Actually, when phrased like that, I guess she will get offended by Doom 3.
GTA has been the best selling game all year I believe. RockStar will be very upset if this game goes sour.
I believe that they are already working on a new edition. This game will be a year old this October.
It's not "souping", it has nothing to do with soup. It's suping as in "Super", to make better. Okay I'm done.
Anyways, if the game is already marked "mature" how are minors buying it in the first place? Retailers and parents who aren't doing their jobs that's how. The sex could and should be left out of the program, but if all the children safeguards are in place but not enforced, then changing the rating and publicizing the story will only act to redouble the sales of the game, placing more of them in the hands of those they are attempting to protect.
If Hitlery were more concerned with the real sex going on under her roof several years ago the sexually explicit materials wouldn't be so pervasive in society today. Not even mentioning the sexually explicit materials forced on children in public schools today. Books and other materials which not only defend homosexuality and promiscuity but endorse them do more to corrupt the minds of children than do a game. Kids aren't forced to play the games.
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