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Well, consider the long and sordid tale of Rockstar’s infamous “Hot Coffee” scandal officially over. Take-Two yesterday settled the four-year-old class-action lawsuit for a cool $20.1 million. The company will pay $4.9 million of it, while its insurance carrier will take care of the rest.
You might recall that this whole mess started after crafty hackers discovered a hidden sex mini-game buried in the retail code of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. As a result, the game was given an Adults-Only rating, there was mass hysteria in the streets as civilization crumbled down around us, and a bunch of offended individuals decided to bring suit against Rockstar (because hooking up with prostitutes and then beating them to death with a sex toy is one thing, but avatar’s getting it on is just going too far).
Take-Two chairman, Strauss Zelnick, said in a statement, “We are pleased to have reached this settlement, which represents another important step forward for the Company.”
Take-Two clearly never had a shot of winning this case, and a settlement was always going to be the way out, so I guess the company was just waiting for the price to come down to a suitable enough point before pulling the trigger. And so they say, “This is the way the ‘Hot Coffee’ era ends. Not with a bang but an out of court settlement.”
How many people here have actually played the “Hot Coffee” mini-game?
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akosiya
i never got the coffe mod, seems like a waste of time for me hahaha, although i plan to replay GTA SA again then GTAIV
Tmidiman
I played GTA SA with Hot coffee enable and it was great. It marked a great time in console history where the original intent of the programmers was realized with ZERO censorship. The first and maybe last truely mature game to be released.
Bravo R*!
grayk47
Ah Frick who let Jack thompson win, huh, people this better not happen again, see now that Jack thompson won finally for one instance, he might come back
scrodezilla
i wonder how much take two made with the increase in sales, after it is even more shocking than prevously thought. i can see an old non gamer buying this just to say to the guys at work the next day he bought, and saw this horrendous act.
Biergoggles
Wow, I'm curious to see what the total cost to Take-Two is (in addition to 4.9 million), i mean 4 years worth of lawyers and litigations and court time and public relations with the press.
sephirothcloud
Blame Hillary Clinton on this scandal to take place in the first place, I remember when this was on the big news companies, fox wusa9 reporting Hillary making various comments of her saying people were offended...yeah right. I thought this ended years ago but they were actually in court for this? and why the hell was Take 2 in court in the first place? they burried the code to were it couldn't be accessed accept by hacking. If a law suit had to be made shouldn't the hackers be in court and not Take 2? I mean for god sakes this whole thing was stupid to begin with, I was 16 when this happened and I thought this was outrages from the start...hell at least if memory serves me well at least Jack Thompson wasn't involved in this one
Razorblad110
that whole thing was f-ing stupid in any case...when people are as sue-crazy in america as they are, just make sure you dont mutter the possibility of you maybe doing something that might not be christian enough for all the fat f-ing people in this world!
Mr_Eko_73
Hackers who opened up the code in the game were infringing upon the "End User Agreement" that is in all games. It should have never happend, not Take-Twos fault, end of story.
199ALLSTAR
I think that is a total fail. I mean we should award people who get offended that there's sex in an M rated game. People who probably used what ever way the hackers did to unlock the hot coffee mini game, then chose to play it. Wow!!! That is so freaking stupid. So you get rewarded for the stupid decisions you make as an adult by suing someone. It's not my fault my wife caught me with my pants down (decision 1) and hand on my junk (decision 2) watching some porn that got took then the register and payed for the last time I was at my local adult video store ( too many decisions to count). I mean really????!!!! The judicial system and should be used to help enforce the law, not to pervert it into some twisted get rich scheeme. These games are for adults and those adults who bought this game need stop bieng childish to take responsability of their actions.
(sorry for the spelling)
Nub Salad
Wasn't the hot coffee thing only available to people with modded systems? I don't see people that are offended by the hot coffee and people that mod their systems being one in the same. Someone is lying here. Either you would have been offended by it but you didnt even see it or you did see it and you weren't offended by it. But seriously who is so messed up in the head that they buy a game called grand theft auto, with all types of killing and other adult themed events, and then complains about there being a sex scene?
And ok let's say the rare situation in which a kid/church-goer/nun or whatever happens to stumble across the hot coffee scene in a game they thought only contained death, swearing and prostitutes, why does anyone have to pay out any amount of money?
aztecyankee
@crocodilius
Your absolutely correct us Americans need to work. Take for example this current recession where having, as soon as our banks fail and our unemployment rises THE REST OF THE WORLD SUFFERS. Proof that world revolves around the U.S. economy! I can definitely see how it's affected your country....seeing how spell check was already removed form your computer who knows what's next!!
crocodilius
Americans need to learn how to work, instead of sueing people
FOR F.CK SAKES.
LarcenousLaugh
This country is far to puritanical in all aspects of life. Sex should not be put forward as this horribly demeaning act, villified as being worse then some of the crazy violence they manage to stick in to movies now a days. Honestly, this little scandal ranks up there with the craziness that FoxNews went around with regarding mass effect as a "sex simulator".
Besides, staying within certain broadly defined stereotypes, us gaming nerds need all the sexposure we can get. In fact... I think the wife is looking for some hot coffee right now...
RMSorg
Sounds like the whole thing was very unfair and a great example of how "sue happy" everyone is! They tried to rectify the problem and that is more than most will do! Thanks for this share and for more amazing technology and what great work is being done with it visit http://jedimindinc.com/
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Drop_Six
I thought it was settled too. But either way, I think this is unfair to Take Two because they tried to block the code and somebody went and hacked it, so its not really their fault. If anything they should have only had to replace the copies of the game that people had with the "dirty" code if those people wanted a replacement. Other than that people are just prudes.
blasphemous
I thought that this was settled along time ago. I even seem to remmember reading about it here.
@akosiya
you fail
akosiya
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