Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas given an AO rating by ESRB, prompting recall and reissue
This is due to the HotCoffee fiasco which I presume everyone already knows about.
I think the action by the ESRB forcing an AO rating onto GTA:SA is justified. Rockstar needs to be spanked in order to bolster confidence in the ESRB rating system, which is (at least for now) protecting our industry from heavy-handed governmental regulation.
The political grandstanding about this is, as usual, both amusing and revolting. But that’s to be expected. Rockstar were idiots to allow this to happen and I want to personally slap those responsible.
I’m more willing than anyone to see an AO game be made and sold to enormous profit… but it must be clearly rated as such. Rockstar has set things back considerably.
Tags: censorship, game-ratings, harmful-games, Industry, kids, obscenity, Parenting, rockstar
