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The Sun Misfires Against Disney Over Swear in Game
Anonymous Coward writes "UK paper The Sun published an article about a father who purchased a recent Gameboy title from Disney for his daughter. They were horrified that the credits of the game contained the F-Word and he immediately contacted the paper. The Sun published the article without researching the fact that this was a pirate cartridge based off of the cracked version of this game released. Oops!"
I doubt he would knowingly buy his little kids bootleg games for christmas, and then go complain about them to the media.
I wouldn't doubt it if the story of the dad and his daughter is fraudulent. Often, tabloids invent stories to bring attention to a real occurence.
Maybe some Sun staffer bought a copy of the pirated game, and decided to make up a compelling story to go along with it. Because if you look at the picture, it looks like a real copy of Monster's, Inc.
What's so bad about an "f" word? Is the word inherently evil? Is there any evidence of this word ever causing anyone harm? I'm betting the designation of this word as "offensive" is 100% arbitrary and ridiculous.
Not everyone on posting on Slahdot is a major UK newspaper, who should know better. Seriously, reading the full text of what was on that game, even the dumbest journo should have guessed that this may not be a legitimate copy. Scum the lot of them.
What about the fact that some one actual took the time to create a cracked version of the game!
I have a problem with the facts (or lack there of) in the original article.
1. It just doesn't make sense to buy 2 gba's and 1 game, even if the kids share the game you always have an idle gba
2. Why doesn't the guy ever say where the game came from, is he hiding something, or did they not include that part in the script they gave him?
3. Why on earth does that little girl know the f word already, or was that in the script too?
Now, I know that I can buy monster's inc. and flash the cart with whatever I want and take it back to EB, and more than likely they would not notice. Then someone would eventually buy it as an used game, but if this was the case, why wasn't a store mentioned? So I conclude that either this guy bought the games from a shady source (because he was too cheap to buy the real deal, or too stupid to understand that there may be a difference) or that the story is entirely made up.