RSSGTA Re-Release Due Next Week
By Ed Oswald | Published September 8, 2005, 5:41 PM
The re-release of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is due next Tuesday, according to the Web sites of gaming retailers. GameStop lists the title as being available September 13, roughly two months after it stopped selling GTA due to the "Hot Coffee" modification, which allows the game's main character to engage in sex acts.
Every major retailer has pulled the game from their shelves, and Take Two Interactive, the parent company of Rockstar Games vowed at the time to have a new version of GTA: San Andreas available minus the "Hot Coffee" scenes within "six to eight weeks."
Take-Two reported on Wednesday its quarterly financial data for the three months ending July 31, which showed the company had indeed paid a financial price for the gaffe that it reluctantly admitted was partially its own fault.
The company reported a $28.8 million loss, twice that of the year ago quarter. This actually came as the software maker increased sales by 6 percent year over year. Take Two has also lowered profit expectations for the year to 85 to 90 cents a share versus their original forecast of $1.13 per share.
There also remains the possibility that even when the cleaned up version of Grand Theft Auto is re-released, some retail stores may choose not to stock the game due to its controversial nature.
I had problems with registering. I'm the same ROKE that posted earlier FYI:
Our Moral as a people has been going down the sewer, I agree there with CHRISPATSCH... And thats the problem I try to point out. We rely too much on a scapegoat to ignore the real problems we dont want to deal with.
It's not games like GTA for the most part, but also TV, pop-culture, Music... I expect nudity and violence on HBO or something, but now it's spreading to primetime 'Basic' channels (FOX anyone?). I don't even have to mention Middle/Junior High to High School. Just being around people and friends there, you're exposed to just as much, if not worse. Sad to say, but by the time a 14yr gets to the game these days, he most likely already knows more about sex than his parents... oddly enough, that's one thing that most dissapoints me in society these days.
I really can't blame it all on the parenting now that I think about it. some kids or schedules can be too challenging if not impossible. And it's getting harder each generation.
But one thing is for sure... make sure you know your kids' friends, and parents. Know what games their friends have. You always have the possibility of your kids going to a friend's place and playing the [game] anyway. Staple a tracking Tag to their ear, lol. That's the best option.
I agree the conservatives and safety nuts tick me off alot. (anyone recount the [christian] arguement over DOOM3 "promoting satanism", omg, lol.) Alot of [them] are used to the idea of games only being for kids, like Mario and Pokemon *shudder*. They have to open up to the realization that the majority of gamers now are 15-35 years of age. And a majority of sales goto 20+. [We] don't want Mario, Looney Tunes, or Pokemon, which just disturbs us (some of us at least)... I agree GTA-class games belong to the 18+ category. I'll shrug at 15-17, but 14 and under is just too young for these GTA-class games IMO.
I say for these type of games, leave the sexually *suggestive/provocative* content in, but keep it to a limit. Keep it suggestive or provocative. I don't need watch sex in detail on a video game. I got RL porn and GFs for that.
I think the Hot Coffee Mod was over the line, from the descriptions, but I will have to try it myself to see just how "bad" it is... if I can find the time to play it these days. :/ BTW: right-hand conservative? so what's a left-hand conservative? lol.
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|There Is Far Worse Things In GTA San Andreas Then The Hot Coffie Mod, All They Have To Do Is Read The Rating For This Game Was For Mature People.
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|It has always been odd to me how paradox and mendacious the American society is in terms of nudity and sex. It's okay to have minors watch ppl whoshoot, strangle, stab, throttle people everyday on TV but it is not okay to see a naked man or woman - engaging in sexual acts or not - how crude, hypocritical, even ridiciulous these dicussions must appear in "good old Europe".
Anyways, poor America.
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|Dude, you're on to something! If banging prostitutes was a mission on an AO game, hells ya, I'd buy it in a heartbeat. The fiance would squint, but let me tell you that you are on to something!
Oh, and ya... If you want to take the argument that what you shouldn't do in real life you shouldn't do in video games, then call off all the racing car games.
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|here's my take:
I say leave the sex in. In fact, put out a special edition with more sex in it. I'd buy the game twice. Folks the issue is this simple:
1. The game was never intended for kids. READ: Parents DO YOUR JOB!!
2. On the "so-called" controversial game, you should answer this question: What's worse? Drugs, violence, and illegal sex on video game streets or drugs, violence, and illegal sex on real streets? If you said video game streets, you should be smacked in the forehead with a tack hammer.
3. To all the baby boomers, safety moms, and other right wing conservatives....STAY OUT OF MY HARD DRIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ...and my entertainment.
Now if you'll excuse me, I gotta go bang a hooker and start a gang war.
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|I really dont know what to say anymore. It's been how many years now?.. And [people] still attack GTA far more above all other games. It's getting really old, and frankly, it's starting to tick me off.
As for the hot coffee mod, yea, they were wrong to actually code that in there, that is something I won't argue too much about. All I can say is it was locked, and the game was *never meant for young kids* -- Read that again, make sure it sticks this time.
Nobody can seem to shut their holes about how violent it is... how you can beat women, kill cops, steal cars, and have relations with prostitutes... you could also beat men and shoot only paramedics... or you could just run in a circle all day doing nothing. It's not like the game *makes* you do these things, so stop trying to find more petty excuses to ban the title. If you dislike it that much, don't buy it, don't play it, and don't do either for your 10yr old son whom you complain is being [wrongfully misguided] due to this game. If you're going to make such a big deal of this then try and not forget whats on prime time TV is just as bad if not worse than what you see in this game, and kids are watching that all the time (not to mention HBO and Cinemax, but no one complains about that anymore; I guess videogames have become the new fodder and scapegoat for bad parenting and mental disorders). As for the hookers? Yea... I really get off hearing voices and watching a squeeky car make squeeky noises... can't get more pornographic than that! It's just another violent game, the only reason people bash it, is for it's "free-roaming","free-targeting" aspects coupled with a mature plot and decent to par skins and character model designs.
People need to stop complaining about this game [exposing] young kids to [questionable] content, and claiming it to be too [impressionable]. I don't see Mario on the label, do you? So I don't think, and call me crazy, that this game was ever meant for that young of an audience. If young kids being exposed to this is a problem, the problem isn't the game, morons. Where and how are these [kids] getting ahold and playing the game? I would think parents to be a bit more responsible here... If your kid wants something, first thing I'd do is at least check it out first, before buying it >_< . Maybe that's a bit too logical for the average person.
If you feel that playing this game will really make you go nuts and shoot cops, and beat women and steal cars... If you really think it will change your demeanor in life... then I think you've got a bigger problem than just the game.
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|They were stupid to leave the code in there in the first place. the internet is littered with porn i dont see why we cant just leave the porn out of the games and keep it on the internet.
also if you had seen the "hot coffee mod" you would also note that they were fully clothed half the time. only the recent version of the hot coffee mod adds nakked skins.
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|Hypocricy personified.
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|What a strange country and time we live in that bans the various acts of sex between two adults, but beating women and taking cars is AOK.
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|i'd love 2 know why this is a big deal? on the last couple of GTA games u can sleep wiv prostitutes n i agree wiv mjm01010101....its not ok 2 watch sex on the game but it is ok 2 beat women, steal cars, run over people, shoot people, rob shops, out of all the above i'd hav thought sex acts were the least harmful...despite the dispute great game well done rockstar, keep up the good work
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|I agree, the hypocrisy and warped priorities are sheer madness. Hilary kinda missed the point here.
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|Dont forget about shooting cops in the face.
What the hell is wrong with our country? Its ok to kill, mame beat steal, take drugs...etc. BUT DONT HAVE SEX.
F$#@ Take two.
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|It's Hilaryous (spelled that way on purpose) given what happened when her husband was President. She didn't seem too upset after the Monica thingie considering what happened...if this was such a big deal to her, this hot coffee mod, why wasn't she so upset with Bill? I mean, he was all over TV, children all over the country heard sometimes graphic detail of what happened with Clinton and Monica, now a fictional charactor does it on a video game and we should "impeach" the vendor? The word HYPOCRITE comes to mind...
I do want to mention, however, that as we have all heard, two wrongs don't make a right. I personally believe GTA should have been banned to begin with (an opinion I'm sure many will shoot me down about) but not because of the hot coffee mod, but because the whole plot is to shoot police officers, steal cars, and have sex. Mostly just the part about killing police officers though.
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|no one force you to kill police officers,
if you do something iligal they come after you... and still you dont have to kill them 98% of the times
all i did in gta was working at a taxi, eating food and working out :P
yea right :P
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