Grandma sues over 'X' game
So Grandma didn't care about the violence and crime, but the sex was over the line? And we're supposed to believe that while she clearly ignored the M rating for Mature, 17 and older and bought the game for her 14 year old grandson, she definitely would have paid attention to an Adults Only rating and bought him a Mickey Mouse game instead? Great job grandma, you're doing your part to make some lawyer a bunch of money, and you might get back a check for 5 or 10 dollars. Congratulations.
I can see the testimony now: "Well, little Billy was driving all over town indiscriminately shooting people and stealing their cars, running over people and stuff, then all of the sudden (after we went on the internets and downloaded an entirely separate program, then read the forums to find out how to use it, then installed and ran it), a boobie popped out, and it was like Super Bowl XXXIII halftime all over again. I was so shocked, you could barely make out the blood and bullets flying around what with all the naked bodies all over the place."
4 comments:
Yeah, I know exactly what you mean... I think it's absurd that the ESRB gave a rating based on a third party patch. (From the beginning, it probably should have been AO instead of M anyways... That's a different topic though.)
If that's how they're going to do things, then they might as well recall pretty much every PC game ever made & change the rating b/c there has always been some guy out there making 'nude patches' for games... i.e. The Sims, FFVII (Tifa & Aerith patch), etc...
This whole story is actually starting to really piss me off. It's such a colossal non-issue that it really makes me angry to see politicians grandstanding about this sort of thing.
I'll second that. I've railed on at length over at Shakespear's Sister on this topic, so I won't go on and on here, but this whole thing has just gotten to be past the point of ridiculous. They ought to throw that woman's suit out of court and charge her for the court costs. In fact, they ought to slam her with some kind of fine for buying a game rated "M" for a 14-year-old in the first place.
Yeah, it is all ridiculous, especially when these idiots have much more imprtant things to be worrying about then video games, and also everywhere in this story where there is a legitimate issue, they skip it in favor of the stupid things.
Yeah, no argument on this one, asnd.
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