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Activision Responds to American Indian Boycott

Posted by samzenpus on from the Ira-Hayes-will-not-play-this-game dept.

JorgeDeLaCancha writes "As previously reported, the American Indian Development has begun a boycott of Activisions game GUN. Activision has quickly responded. From the article: 'Activision does not condone or advocate any of the atrocities that occurred in the American West during the 1800s. GUN was designed to reflect the harshness of life on the American frontier at that time.'"

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  1. Let me guess? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Circling the wagons?

    1. Re:Let me guess? by DaHat · · Score: 5, Funny

      You fool! Circling the wagons makes it easier for the attackers to encircle you... instead, square your wagons, force them further out when trying to encircle you.

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  2. the Indian Nations should bankroll a game... by Yonder+Way · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...in which a strange group of travellers arrive on your shores with overwhelmingly advanced military technology, and start to eradicate your people through diseased blankets and open hostilities, and then make treaties with you that they have no intention of honoring. The point of the game is to die of old age to win.

  3. Re:*Coughs* by Creos073 · · Score: 3, Funny

    First-person shooting is a lot more fun than pressing a button, though.

  4. Let's just hope by zephc · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let's just hope there isn't a Custer's Revenge minigame hidden in there

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  5. Re:People are too sensitive these days. by SpaceballsTheUserNam · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sure they'll be devasted at by all of their lost sales to American Indians.

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  6. Whoa by aztektum · · Score: 2, Funny

    Deja vu

    A whole 9 hours in between, but only 3 stories apart on games.slashdot.org.

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  7. That game got made already. by roystgnr · · Score: 3, Funny

    It was called "Dances With Wolves", but I think it must have been part of the Final Fantasy series: it ran you on rails through the story line and took 20 hours to get to the ending.

  8. Re:People are too sensitive these days. by Alex+P+Keaton+in+da · · Score: 2, Funny

    Until the *womyn* person-cott you for calling it a boy cott....

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  9. Re:I'm already on an Activision Boycott... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Activision have already addressed this. Please purchase Gary Kitchen's gamemaker and make your own game.

  10. Re:Speaking as an American Indian by Dachannien · · Score: 4, Funny

    They want Jewish people who were pissed about Episode 1 to join in.

    And here I thought being pissed off about Episode 1 was something that transcended racial and ethnic boundaries.