GTA SA:Given an AO and Pulled from shelves

[Emperor Pan I]

After percolating for weeks, the Hot Coffee controversy has finally boiled over. Today, Take-Two Interactive announced that as the result of an investigation by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB), all versions of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas will now bear an AO for Adults Only rating for "Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Strong Language, Strong Sexual Content, [and] Use of Drugs." Previously, the game was rated M for Mature.
The rerating comes nearly a month after the first reports surfaced of the so-called "Hot Coffee" mod for the PC version of San Andreas. After being installed, the widely available mod lets users play a bonus sex minigame as a reward for completing the numerous "girlfriend" missions in San Andreas.

After video of the mod was widely circulated, such figures as ardent anti-game activist Jack Thompson and US Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) blasted the game. Clinton went as far as to publicly equate violent games with cigarettes and alcohol as a hazard to America's youth. In short order, the ESRB launched the aforementioned investigation, which looked into whether the mod was included in the original game or was made by a third party.

Take-Two braced Wall Street for the financial fallout of the ESRB and IEMA decisions. Its statement, which was released after markets closed, said the company was lowering guidance for its third fiscal quarter (which ends July 31, 2005) to $160-$170 million in net sales and a net loss per share of $0.40-$0.45. Take-Two also lowered its guidance for the fiscal year (which ends October 31) to $1.26-$1.31 billion in net sales and $1.05-$1.12 in diluted earnings per share. The news hammered Take-Two's stock, which was down $1.82 (6.72 percent) in after-hours trading as of press time.

Patricia Vance, president of the ESRB. In a sternly worded statement on the ESRB site, she said "we have concluded that sexually explicit material exists in a fully rendered, unmodified form on the final discs of all three platform versions of the game (i.e., PC CD-ROM, Xbox, and PS2)." She also had harsh words for Take-Two. "Considering the existence of the undisclosed and highly pertinent content on the final discs, compounded by the broad distribution of the third party modification, the credibility and utility of the initial ESRB rating has been seriously undermined," she said. "Going forward, the ESRB will now require all game publishers to submit any pertinent content shipped in final product even if is not intended to ever be accessed during game play, or remove it from the final disc."

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/07/20/news_6129500.html

LMAO

Titles rated M (Mature) have content that may be suitable for persons of age 17 and older.

As opposed to the stricter AO rating:

Titles rated AO (Adults Only) have content that should only be played by persons 18 years and older.

 

[Biske]

Oh snaps. Now I have to wait ONE more year to be able to see ma secks scenes in video games. Dumbasses.

 

[Wing Zero]

u can stilll order online/get mom ot buy it

 

[Static]

Did that bitch Clinton do this?

 

[Wing Zero]

basickey.

 

[AZN_FLEA]

who cares?? i get my older friends to buy it for me.

 

[bbags]

some kids need gta i love killing stuff on it so fcc kiss my ass :ufo

 

[Biske]

You know, it wouldn't be as much bs if they had pulled it. But they raised that much stink and wasted that much tax payer dollars to bring this into light to JUST change the rating one more year? Those assholes on capital hill are a bunch of ****tards.

 

[Emperor Pan I]

You know, it wouldn't be as much bs if they had pulled it. But they raised that much stink and wasted that much tax payer dollars to bring this into light to JUST change the rating one more year? Those assholes on capital hill are a bunch of ****tards.

The hell do you care, your taxes are so ****ing low.

 

[Biske]

Oh yeah, and what the hell has Canada done with your money that is all important? My country started a stupid ass war, top that Canada.

 

[Emperor Pan I]

Oh yeah, and what the hell has Canada done with your money that is all important? My country started a stupid ass war, top that Canada.

we had a million dollar scandal by our Prime minister who happened to win the next election anyways.

 

[Theroy]

The hell do you care, your taxes are so ****ing low.

Sighned and I doubt he even pays taxes that he dosen't get back anyways..

 

[Biske]

we had a million dollar scandal by our Prime minister who happened to win the next election anyways.

Damn. That sounds like something the US would do.

 

[Theroy]

sponsor ship scandal heh. our primeminster at the time was jean paul martin was like money handler guy err.

 

[TroiK-]

Wow im going to buy that game for sure now!!!!11111

 

[OpIuM of MaGGoTs]

how ****ing lame, too bad i already own the game. ****ers.

 

[Krovvy]

Think that was really dumb.

I know there are many other video games out there with more hardcore type content with lower ratings. Not only that, say this was done in a movie seen? It would be given what? A PG-13 rating?

 

[x42bn6]

Much of the discussion is said here.*

 

[Emperor Pan I]

Much of the discussion is said here.*

It should have been said here, my thread was first.

 

[Death Dealer]

i read about this in the papers today, what a waste, if people are complainign about this and how its harder for parents to raise their kids with entertainment like this, they shouldnt let thier kids buy it or buy it for them, its the parents fault, big deal if there is a little nudity here and there, its a damn video game, taking it off the shelves isnt going to do anything but make the people complaning happy, kids can always just play other games that havent been taken off the shelves, eventually people will have all the games that are any fun off the shelves, its just a waste of time, let the kids have fun, they only got so much time