Saturday, July 30, 2005
I don't want to weigh in on content of video games, but I do want to weigh in on a few of the business practices. The last few weeks have been alive with hub bub over the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas' hack that shows explicit sexual content with a downloadable mod. In the last few days, Take Two has finally owned up to the hardcore porn it included in a video game that parents were buying for their teen age sons...parents that quite likely weren't also buying them copies of adult magazines or subscriptions to porn sites. My issue with this is not that GTA pushes the envelope with what is acceptable content for a video game but rather that they deceive those who buy the product. If you want to sell hardcore porn in a video game, then do that. Don't pretend you're selling something else. Call a spade a spade.
7/30/2005 5:18:10 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Comments [1]
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