The game I want to choose is GTA, which is highly controversial and worth discussing. First of all, we can see from the content of the game that the content is very simple. A gang leader achieves success through various tasks, full of violence, pornography and illegal transactions. In this world, there are no rules, no procedures, only racing, hacking, blasting and gunfight. Although it satisfies the players to vent their emotions to some extent, it also makes some young players with immature minds blur their moral awareness and cultivate wrong three perspectives. In Australia, the game was refused to be classified and rated under the supervision, and was blocked due to the call for prostitutes in the game, so the game was rated MA15+. In 2010, the game content was not improved, so its rating was retained. In the early years of China, the game regulation was not as good as Australia, so the emergence of GTA at that time caused a lot of sensation. There is no game supervision or restriction, so no matter what age group, you can download games through the network. In the case of immature mental development, they were exposed to violence, blood and erotic trading that they had never been exposed to, which caused the tragedy in real life. Michael Washington is a backup singer of the New York Rap Orchestra “Cypress Garden”. In 2005, this unknown young man filed a lawsuit in the local court, accusing R Star of illegally using his image in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and claiming 25 million dollars.
According to the plaintiff, on January 4, 2003, Michael, who had had gang experience, was invited to the headquarters of R Star for an interview. At that time, he was dressed in this white “sweatshirt”. Washington claimed that he had answered some questions about the past street life from the staff in a closed cubicle, and promised that once the materials were used, he would be paid.
However, after the release of San Andreas, Michael suddenly found himself “becoming” the leading role CJ. Not only that, but also the experience that the protagonist of the game found his mother was killed after returning home and that he was framed by gangsters and the police is his “real experience”. He accused R Star of stealing not only his “face”, but also a miserable life during the interview. In another case, the plaintiff Florence Cohen said in her lawsuit that she bought this game for her teenage grandson at the end of 2004. At that time, it was rated “M” by the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) (suitable for people aged 17 and above), and she never thought that there was password protected pornographic content hidden inside. Take Two recently admitted the fact that the game contains pornographic content.
A Dutch programmer first discovered the secret of hiding pornographic content in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and published the cracked password on the Internet. Later, the rating of the game was revised to only suitable for adults.
The indictment accuses Take Two Interactive and Rockstar Games of engaging in unfair trade, cheating consumers and false advertising.
Take Two has stopped making the game and plans to launch a new version without pornographic content.
Take Two announced on Tuesday that the Federal Trade Commission’s advertising agency has launched an investigation into the game’s advertising slogans. It is strange that even such violent games did not increase the local crime rate before and after the release of the game, and certainly did not reduce it. Therefore, this cannot be discussed at all. Sometimes, crime and games may not be related, but it did cause quite a stir in that year.
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