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Hot Coffee Cooling Off
The storm of media and cynicism that was "Hot Coffee" is, thankfully, coming to an end. To wrap things up, reactions were mixed to the re-rating of GTA. Some thought it too much, some too little too late. With the removal of the M rating, ESRB president Patricia Vance considers the matter closed. Even those in the industry itself seem glad that it's over, though the folks quoted for the 1up story seem cynical about the whole thing. "[Rockstar] TOTALLY screwed the modding community, as far as I am concerned. Because they could have just removed the content. They tried to get cute and leave it in. In my experience that sort of thing is always deliberate. Anyway, the point is that most game developers are recalcitrant and immature jerks. When mom tells us we can't do something, we're sure as hell going to do it. If you get my meaning. I think 'mom' in this case was the ESRB." As a sidenote, stock in Take-Two Entertainment dropped by almost five percent at close of market today, on the news that even Gamestop is dumping the now AO-rated GTA title.
am going out to purchase this too-hot-for-Gamespot game. Then i'm going to make little kids play it. Call me The Pusher Man.
Slashdot is kind of like Playboy; we aren't here to read the articles.
I can still kill cops and pummel innocent bystanders with a club, smashing their brains in till blood oozes all over the sidewalk. Good family fun.
How do you know it was consensual?
I think the programmers made them do it!
This just in. "Real Life" has been re-rated AO by ESRB because it features the same violent and sexual content as GTA:SA.
Quote the leader: "We first noticed this when we found out there are a lot of people being invited for 'hot coffee' everywhere! This has to stop! We had no idea sex is available to everyone"
From now on, life is rated AO which means anybody under the magical age of 18 is no longer allowed to have a life.
I've always wanted to do a polygonal woman, they're just hard to find outside of gaming.
Hell if I'm going to buy an AO game I better be getting what is promised on the box!
Next weeks headline : "Geek sues Rockstar for false claims of explicit sex in GTA".
Quote from the article "Steve purchased GTA:SA hoping to get a glimpse of naked women engaged in sexual acts, but instead found himself searching Rockstar's website for a 'patch'. Turns out Rockstar didn't live up to their promise of hot sex and coffee - the only way to get to that content is from a program made by some Swedish guy who doesn't even work for the game developer."
A world with violence and no sex. Wait... wouldn't that be the fuckin apocalypse?
Uhm, no it wouldn't. The fucking apocalypse will have sex. I think you're thinking of the regular apocalypse.
and even more in the spirit of ./; you misspell "word" (work) while complaining about their spelling errors.
Meta meta spelling nazi?
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