I agree. it is a shame that GTA included porn in thier game. It hurts the whole industry by promulagting the image that games are for socially enept horny teenage boys, by sending the message that games and porn are sold together in the same box, and finally by confirming to our society that computer games are negative influences and should be shunned.

While computer games can have devestating influences in ones life they are not porn, nor are they designed for unsocial unintelligent adolescent male. Quiet the contrary. The largest game universe is found in EVE-online which is an extremely complex game which one is required to continually read massive amounts of pages filled with facts that one has to know in order to thrive. It is a game of economics, he with the greatest understanding of money thrives in this game. Most of the people I've ran into who play this particular game are either in college or in thier 30s. EVE-online is far from the image GTA has sent to our society.

Also a THE most popular game (most sold games) is the SIMS which as my wife put it "is just a computer game of playing with dolls". SIMS offers a gamer the chance to design a house, send a person off to work, decorate the house you designed and built, clean the house, do laundry, cook, eat, shower, have a freind over and shoot the breeze with him, and even walk the dog. This game is complex enough that children cannot master it as you have to be able to multitask continuously throughout the gaming expereince. SIMS does not resemble the image that GTA has thrown over the gaming community.

While you might say that there are a lot of computer games out there that do have violence and that do have nudity the most popular one has nothing of the sort. The largest game universe has nothing of the sort.

AND for the record the pornography scene included in GTA was encoded so that no one was able to see it. Someone leaked a program you have to run while running the game in order to see this. ALSO the scene is at a specific location only avaliable to one who is in the advanced sections of the game, and if you have not downloaded, installed, and are running the extra program while you go through this specific section of the game you will never see the porn. And from what i hear it is not very long.

I agree with OP that GTA is wrong for releasing a game with porn on it. I want it to be clear that the gaming community is as hurt and angry about it as our society is. The gaming community does not endorse this type of activity nor do we (and i consider myself completely immersed in said community and able to talk for them in generalities such as this) appreciate it.