{"id":14624,"date":"2011-10-11T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T11:22:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"esrb-outs-battlefield-3-cop-shooting-ea-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/14624-esrb-outs-battlefield-3-cop-shooting-ea-responds","title":{"rendered":"ESRB outs Battlefield 3 cop shooting, EA responds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently the Entertainment Software Ratings Board certification for Battlefield 3<\/a> revealed that, among other dirty deeds done dirt cheap, “players shoot police officers to complete a mission objective”.<\/p>\n

I managed to miss this somehow last week because Nic steals all the best headlines.<\/p>\n

That’s somewhat in contradiction of DICE’s previous decision to disallow shooting civilians<\/a>, basically because if you let people do bad things, they probably will.<\/p>\n

But whatever – cops are only civilians when they’re off-duty, anyway. Or something like that.<\/p>\n

I didn’t pay attention during the arraignment.<\/p>\n

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Of course, public hysteria and tabloid controversies being just a FOX News Special Edition away, EA has quickly come in with a good reason for this flagrant disregard for law enforcement.<\/p>\n

In an official statement sent to Eurogamer<\/a>, EA points out that, in an emergency, sometimes this kind of stuff just happens:<\/p>\n

“I don’t think you understand the gravity of the situation. For God’s sake, there is a nuke in Paris! Millions of lives are at stake!!”<\/p>\n

I mean, when you think about it like that, it’s just sensible.<\/p>\n

EA respond to ESRB’s cop shooting claims – in the game, people<\/strong><\/a> << Comments and views <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And it\u2019s not quite what you might expect<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}