This ruling of the ESRB is the greatest thing to happen FOR the video game industry in a very long time. It gives the industry the argument now that the ESRB is serious about the ratings and that it doesn't need the government to step in.
Further, the worst problem all along has been Take-Two, not the entire industry. Specter and even Lowenstein have been moving to isolate and ostracize Take-Two, and it finally happened. Take-Two, with its chronic scofflaw attitude, has painted a bullseye on the whole industry's back, and now the industry ESRB has struck back and its biggest problem, far bigger than me, Jack Thompson.
So, in response to the ESRB's finally getting one right and helping the industry, in part because of my raising the visibility of Take-Two and its illegal antics, you all are very welcome.
You in the gaming nation have tried to marginalize and threaten and harm me, and I understand, but you now are starting to figure out what this fight has been about. It has not been about "banning games" or "banning even violent games." It has been about stopping the marketing and sale of mature and adult games to minors. Period.
The good guys won this one, and so did the industry. Got get the Hell off my back and tell Take-Two's new Chairman, Strauss Zelnick, what an absolute idiot he is.
Jack Thompson, Attorney and Still Standing
Slashdot Mirror
This ruling of the ESRB is the greatest thing to happen FOR the video game industry in a very long time. It gives the industry the argument now that the ESRB is serious about the ratings and that it doesn't need the government to step in. Further, the worst problem all along has been Take-Two, not the entire industry. Specter and even Lowenstein have been moving to isolate and ostracize Take-Two, and it finally happened. Take-Two, with its chronic scofflaw attitude, has painted a bullseye on the whole industry's back, and now the industry ESRB has struck back and its biggest problem, far bigger than me, Jack Thompson. So, in response to the ESRB's finally getting one right and helping the industry, in part because of my raising the visibility of Take-Two and its illegal antics, you all are very welcome. You in the gaming nation have tried to marginalize and threaten and harm me, and I understand, but you now are starting to figure out what this fight has been about. It has not been about "banning games" or "banning even violent games." It has been about stopping the marketing and sale of mature and adult games to minors. Period. The good guys won this one, and so did the industry. Got get the Hell off my back and tell Take-Two's new Chairman, Strauss Zelnick, what an absolute idiot he is. Jack Thompson, Attorney and Still Standing