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Rockstar Fights Back Against BBFC

Posted by Zonk on from the with-angry-words-words-that-hurt dept.

Rockstar has launched its appeal against Manhunt 2's rating rejection in the UK. At the first hearing on the matter, Rockstar representative Geoffrey Robertson took the British Board of Film Classification to task: "Robertson went on to accuse the BBFC of being 'simply ignorant of the gaming experience' and 'throwing adjectives with hyperbolic abandon at the game ... Their reputation is not at stake; if it were we could show how, over the last century, they've been derided for some of the most stupid decisions in censorship history ... But we're not going to go down that road.'"

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  1. FIST SPORT! by ringbarer · · Score: -1, Troll

    And meanwhile, by churning out the same scrotum-popping torture porn that they've been accused of, Rockstar stagnate and do nothing to advance the cause of gaming as art.

    Try separating the hype from the quality of their titles, and we'll soon see why Take Two are having financial problems.

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    1. Re:FIST SPORT! by jasen666 · · Score: 0, Troll

      And meanwhile, by churning out the same scrotum-popping torture porn that they've been accused of....

      fap...fap...fapfapfapfapfapfap

      Is it really Rockstar's fault that there are a ton of people who want to buy scrotum-popping torture porn? If no one bought it, they wouldn't make it.

  2. "Their reputation is not at stake" by JamesRose · · Score: 0, Troll

    Smooth, frankly, after rockstar got caught lying to the ratings boards with GTA:VC, they should at the very least be treated very harshly. PLUS who, after rockstar's recent history of incompetence, would start going round attacking the reputation of others? This smacks of the whole childish nature of the company.

    1. Re:"Their reputation is not at stake" by module0000 · · Score: -1, Troll

      Hey fanboy, GTA:VC wasn't the title that anyone went up in arms over. That was San Andreas. Get your facts straight dipshit.

      Go play your naked Sims mod or something kiddo. off our intraweb.

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    2. Re:"Their reputation is not at stake" by JamesRose · · Score: 0, Troll

      Yes, becuase it being released in SA rather than VC completely negates my arguement [/sarcasm], and "it wasn't accessible" if it was on the disk and distributed it should have been shown to the ratings board like everything else. And the history of incompetence is the release (over p2p, pirating etc.) of manhunt 2 unmodified. Then the closure of one of their offices and jsut trying to pretend the office never existed etc. Then of course the fact they mis-judged how the BBFC would act in the first place. So yeah, there are screw ups.