Thursday, May 04, 2006

Following up on a previous post, one of the things that makes video games an easy target is how the game developers make poor choices. They write segments of code that contain explicit content and that content is never disclosed to the ESRB (the Entertainment Software Rating Board) because "it'll never be found." However, someone in the company is going to tell a friend. That friend is going to tell another friend and it keeps going until someone posts how to do it on a website and suddenly everyone is accessing the explicit content and people have more ammunition against video games. This is what happened with "Hot Coffee" and this is probably what happened with "Oblivion" having to change its rating from Teen to Mature because of being able to play with a topless character. Did Bethesda not whatch what happened to Rockstar? It's hard to be sympathetic with game developers being singled out by legislators when they keep doing things that shoot themselves (and their cause) in the foot.

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