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No, this isn't an update on my progress in GTA 4 (but if you're interested, I'm only about 49% in and I can't save Jimmy Pegorino from the fucking Pavano family for my life!). I just found this story amusing.
Take-Two Interactive, the company that designed Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (you know... the game that no one ever finished), has to pay the claimants in the class action suit filed against them for the "hot coffee" mini-game scandal.
So...
Legal fees, etc. that Take-Two has to pay out for this case: over $1,000,000.00 US
Total number of "hot coffee" claimants as of May 16, 2008 (deadline for filing a claim): 2,676
Estimated total amount of money Take-Two will pay out to claimants: in the vicinity of $30,000.00 US.
Total number of copies sold of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas as of 2008: 21.5 million (about 12 million of them were sold with the ability to access the "hot coffee" game).
Total number of claimants that discovered, successfully hacked, played, and were offended by the "hot coffee" game: probably much closer to 0 than 2,676.
Amount of money Take-Two made off the noise that politicians, soccer moms, and various other morally outraged people made over the "hot coffee" scandal: probably close to $475,000,000.00 US. (roughly 9.5 million units sold after the discovery of "hot coffee" at $50 per unit, or at least I'm guessing... the point is, it's a lot).
How are you going to play (or rather allow your kid to play) a game in which violence, profanity, and other immoral and unethical behavior are necessary to completing the game... but take offense to sex? It just punctuates exactly how backwards this country is in when it comes to sex and violence. Movies can show a naked girl getting disemboweled while being hung upside down on a hook but not two naked people having consentual sex. You'll allow your 11-year-old to play a video game named after a felony but once you hear that it gets a little naughty, THEN you start to think that maybe he shouldn't be playing it.
So this isn't even a moral victory. They won but they still lost. The fat cats made even more money. The kids whose parents took San Andreas away from them are likely playing GTA 4 this very minute (although they may be dismayed to find out the new game has something of a conscience). And there's probably a big party planned at Take-Two Interactive this week to celebrate their defeat.
Crazy world. Someone oughta sell tickets.
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