janelane wrote:

The civil lawsuit was filed after the disclosure of the sex scenes in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, released in 2004. The existence of the scenes, accessible to knowledgeable players using third-party software, drew fierce condemnation from lawmakers and sparked a frenzy online. The suit accused the game’s makers of defrauding buyers by failing to disclose the scenes.

"Wag of my finger" to the designers for putting in the sex scenes, and another "wag" to the purchasers for not expecting the absolute worse that the designers could dish out.

-janelane, all my games are rated T

I still think it's a load of bullsh*t.

Let's draw a parallel... Let's pretend this sort of retroactive assessment applied to movies.

Let's say someone makes a movie that has a lot of violence, a boat-load of swearing, and a hardcore sex scene. First pass through the ratings board gets it an X.

The producers then begin a serious hack and slash session, cutting the movies length by ten minutes, removing all the hardcore sex, an especially grotesque murder, and about half the swear words are toned down, getting the movie a PG-13.

The movie is a blockbuster hit, raking in $25 million in the first weekend, with hundreds of thousands of viewers.

Six months later the "Director's Cut" edition starts going on sale, which is "Unrated".

A certain asshat lawyer files a suit, with a few dozen district attorneys in right on his heels with criminal charges, because the mere existence of the unrated Director's Cut means they've actually been showing hardcore pornography to minors--and said minors are pretty pissed because they didn't actually get to see it, but were cited for sneaking into an X-rated movie anyway.

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