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nathanst
09/03/09

In reply to Grand Theft Auto's $20 Million Screw Up
now we know how much the previous free publicity for hot coffee costs

20 million dollars

Is that worth the international news it got

I think so, economists might disagree
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Aaron Altman
09/02/09

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Nipplegate does not simulated videogame fucking make, Ryan. Also, maybe the hed should read "Grand Theft Auto's $20 Million Screw."
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thegreatfratsby
09/02/09

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You know, I just read about Pfizer getting hit with a $2.3 billion fine for illegally marketing Bextra, so right now my fine-o-meter is a little screwy; $20 mn feels like a drop in the bucket.

With that out of the way... we're really that worried about interactive sex games being released in products that also involve hitting police officers with cars and gunning down gang members? We should probably just ban flash games entirely. And the whole country of Japan - just ban everything from there. Let's also take out Skinimax (no! cry the legions of drunk, sad 20-somethings at 2:30 AM), the Bible (two animals per species, eh? Sounds kinky), and, hell, reproduction as a species. Then, let Darwin do his work!
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DennyCrane
09/02/09

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This angers me to no end.
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Pope John Peeps II
09/02/09

@DennyCrane: This SHOULD anger you to no end. It's outrageous.
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DahlELama
09/02/09

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Isn't the game already rated A for Adults or M for Mature or whatever they do with video games? Shouldn't that cover any other R-rated scenes?

Also, I never heard about this before. Video (preferably replacing the two above with Taye Diggs and Angelina Jolie) or it didn't happen.
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ChrisCroy
09/02/09

@DahlELama: Grand Theft Auto was rated M for Mature, which is video game equivalent of an R rating. The AO rating (adults-only) is equivalent to NC-17 and is just as much a kiss of death as NC-17. Most shops will simply not carry AO games, notably Wal-Mart. Just like the NC-17, the only way to reliably get an AO is sex. As far as I know, the only game to ever manage to get an AO rating for pure violence was Manhunt 2 which was recut before release to get an M rating. The ESRB (MPAA equivalent) is extremely touchy about sex partly because video games are still widely viewed among The Olds as being only for kids. A video game can MAYBE throw in a pair of briefly bare breasts without getting an AO rating, but no-one's inclined to push their luck. It's just not worth it.

While Europeans censor our games for violence (Hall of Fame: Germany! Any game intended for the German market must change the color of blood from red to green. They're also complete Nazis when it comes to Nazis and will ban any game that features swastikas as anything other than targets), we do the same thing for European games except for we take out the tits. Off the top of my head:

Giants: Citizen Kabuto: One of the character's wore a sarrong and nothing else. She put a shirt on for the American release.

Fahrenheit aka The Indigo Prophecy: A sex scene was cut out from the American release.

Neocron: Strip clubs were cut from American release.
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bikini_lounger
09/02/09

@ChrisCroy: How interesting and informative. Thank you!
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DahlELama
09/02/09

@ChrisCroy: @bikini_lounger: Seriously! Thanks, Chris! That pretty much answered every question I could have ever had about video games.
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bluebears
09/02/09

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If it was two dudes Take-Two would just have to declare bankruptcy, the cost of settling would be so high.
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shostakobitch
09/02/09

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worth every penny.
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