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Take Two Shareholders to sue over Hot Coffee

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the controversy-is-good-fo-business dept.

casualsax3 writes "Take Two, the publisher of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, is facing more legal action over the game. Separately, two law firms have filed class-action lawsuits on behalf of shareholders who they say lost money due to the controversy about the game. This comes right on the heels of news that the Sex Workers Outreach Program is calling for a boycott of the game."

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  1. Relax! by Zardus · · Score: 4, Funny

    The shareholders should get together with the Sex Workers Outreach Program and get some relaxation time in!

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  2. The problem is.. by thegrassyknowl · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The share holders are in dire need of the sex workers union. Anyone who is going to use this as an excuse to sue is fucking crazy. Hot Coffee didn't make them lose money. It publicised the game to a lot more people than ever before. I know people who paid for a copy to just see that extra bit.

    Americans are so fucking mad

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  3. The sad thing here is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's really clearly starting to look to me like the biggest mistake Take Two made with the hot coffee incident was admitting fault. If they'd just stood up and said "screw you, the content isn't in the game unless you mod it, and even after you mod it it's less extreme than content that already exists in other M games", fought the opportunistic politicians trying to exploit them, and fought the ESRB AO rating, they'd have come out of this much better. They'd have made a lot of enemies but at least they'd have managed to get some damage control out of it and at least that's something, the response they ultimately chose had no positive side effects at all.

    1. Re:The sad thing here is by supabeast! · · Score: 5, Insightful

      What you're clearly missing here is that Take-Two/Rockstar never had any chance at controlling this and coming out on top. It didn't matter what Take-Two/Rockstar said in their own defense, because this entire story exists because the American news media serves mainly to titilate its audience with twisted facts taken out of context followed by a lot of outright lies. And nobody was ever going to come to Take-Two/Rockstar's aid, because they're just a bunch of rich white nerds making games for a living, they don't fit into popular concepts of victims needing defense.

      Take-Two/Rockstar are just as much a victim of America's depraved acceptance of a media that's little better than the state-controlled media of facist regimes than it is the developer's own stupidity.

  4. Re:wrong... by the-amazing-blob · · Score: 4, Informative

    It also made the ignorant section (aka majority) of the public aware of the ratings system, and the fact that those little black and white boxes mean something. Some parents began checking to see what title their child wanted, and what the rating was. Decrease in sales from the fact that the market of 12 year olds decreased.

  5. So.. by Turn-X+Alphonse · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So you sue a company, bring up more press about it and cost them money on lawyers... because they lost you money?

    This is going to cost them even more money. The other share holders should sue them for this.

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