Back in 2005, when the video game world was even more afraid of sex than it is now, Rockstar had to deal with the uncovering of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas’s infamous “Hot Coffee” mod.
The controversy happened when a modder uncovered a sex-sequence tucked away into the game’s code, and promptly posted an “unlock” online. The central issue was that Rockstar hadn’t mentioned the hidden sequence to the ratings board, and were sued by the city of Los Angeles shortly after the mod went public, costing them $4.9 million in damages.
Dan Houser, one of Rockstar’s co-founders, spoke to the Guardian in a recent interview, and opened up about his frustrations over the whole experience.
“The massive social decay that we were supposed to induce hasn’t happened. So in that regard, a lot of those debates that used to go on, they’re not such a big deal now.”
“We never felt that we were being attacked for the content, we were being attacked for the medium, which felt a little unfair,” he continued. “If all of this stuff had been put into a book or a movie, people wouldn’t have blinked an eye. And there are far bigger issues to worry about in society than this.”
Even today, sex in video games continues to be a major issue, while gratuitous violence is entirely overlooked.
Source: Gamasutra
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