Grandma Sues Over Hot Coffee Mod

Bond_James writes "Ars Technica is reporting that an 85-year old New York woman has filed a civil suit against Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive. She alleges that the defendants 'engaged in misleading and deceptive practices in packaging and selling' the game, which she purchased for her 14-year old grandson. This will be interesting, and scary, to watch unfold in the courtrooms. Will the M (17+) rating of the game save Rockstar?"

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Re:Don't Cry For Me Argentina

[iCEBaLM]

Originally I blew this off as a bunch of prudes getting steamed over some mods for a game, but now its been shown that this is a built in 'feature'.

Built in feature, if you mod your game, enter a cheat code and then spend a lot of time trying to unlock that particular scene.

It was not intended to be in the final game, it was disabled and can only be enabled by modifying the game. How can you call this "built in" when you need to patch your game to activate it?

M (17+) and AO(18+)

[conigs]

Living in the US, I'm always amazed at ratings like this..... *Before I continue, yes I understand that basically the M rating is a suggestion while the AO rating is more of a rule not to sell to minors* We all know what the game involves... and apparently that's suitable if you're seventeen. But because there's a hidden minigame requiring a mod to unlock it that has explicit cartoon sex, it's no longer suitable for 17-year olds... not you have to wait a year before you understand that cartoon sex. I never quite understood that... just like I can walk into a car rental place at 24 and 11 months old and not be able to rent a car.... one month later, I'm considered old and wise enough to rent one. I know there has to be a limit at one point.... but not much happens between 17 and 18 (other than "officially" being considered an adult) that seems to warrant two different ratings. Incidentally, I'd also like to point out that NC17 rating for movies used to be X..... hmmm... so you can watch real people pretending to have sex on film at 17, but you're really not ready to watch polygons poorly representing people on your TV having sex... *didn't rtfa, hasn't played GTA (no interest), sick of the hype over this issue prevading over real issues in current events*