Rockstar disowns GTA sex mod
p2pnet.net News:- Take-Two’s Rockstar says the Hot Coffee porn-mod for its Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas isn’t a part of the video game, already notorious for its brutal violence and sexual content.
The industry’s Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB) is looking into claims by Californian assemblyman Leland Yee that deserves an AO (Adults Only) rating, something that’s hardly ever given to games and which makers and sellers see as highly undesirable because it stops youngsters from buying their products.
Of the more than 1,000 game ratings assigned by the ESRB in 2004, fewer than 1% received an AO rating.
San Andreas is currently rated M (Mature) by the ESRB, but Hot Coffee is a modification which adds mini-games featuring explicit sexual intercourse. Our pic is a partial clip from one of the scenes.
But Take-Two says it didn’t have anything to do with Hot Coffee and that “the work of the mod community is beyond the scope of either publishers or the ESRB,” says a GamesIndustry.biz post, going on:
“As to the question of whether Hot Coffee was actually included with the game but not actually enabled, Rockstar has addressed this directly for the first time, according to US website GameSpot – which reports that a representative of the company told them directly that the Hot Coffee code is not included on the GTA game discs.
“That runs contrary to claims by the author of the mod, however – he says that his modification merely unlocks an unfinished minigame already present in the code.”
However, if Take-Two/Rockstar is “punished over Hot Coffee, it could lead to the industry having to adopt much more stringent rules about what’s shipped on game discs, even when it isn’t part of the accessible game content,” adds the story.
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Revised @ 8:14 am Pacific: "Of course it’s in the game!" – says a p2pnet Reader’s Write. "If you look at the mod, it’s tiny. All it does is flip a censorship flag in the save game. This activates the sex game code that was always in the game but disabled by Rockstar though it looks to be virtually complete.
"Why it’s so believable is not just because there is a fully working subgame, but also because it’s inclusion and how it works matching the style of the game and its other little subgames.
"Rockstar obviously programmed this into the game, but then decided at some point not to include it in the game, but disabled, rather than removed the code."
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Hot Coffee porn-mod – San Andreas and Hot Coffee, p2pnet, July 9, 2005
GamesIndustry.biz – Rockstar denies sex in San Andreas, July 11, 2005
July 11th, 2005 at 3:12 pm
Of course it’s in the game! If you look at the mod, it’s tiny. All it does is flip a censorship flag in the save game. This activates the sex game code that was always in the game but disabled by Rockstar though it looks to be virtually complete.
Why it’s so beliveable is not just because there is a fully working subgame, but also because it’s inclusion and how it works matching the style of the game and its other little subgames.
Rockstar obviously programmed this into the game, but then decided at some point not to include it in the game, but disabled, rather than removed the code.
And anyway, what does this have to do with P2P?
July 11th, 2005 at 3:34 pm
“…what does this have to do with P2P?”
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July 11th, 2005 at 9:37 pm
Why can’t they just use the same ratings that the movie industry uses???
Give GTA an R rating, and that accounts for the violence, swearing, and sex! there DONE, thats the solution!
July 11th, 2005 at 9:38 pm
because an AO rating means some stores wont carry the game!! and an R rating just means that its not for children, and it means more people will understand what the ratings are.
July 11th, 2005 at 11:40 pm
Ok think about it this was removed from the game therefore it is impossible to access without hacking. The sex scemes are nothing compared to games like Leisure Suite Larry Magna Cum Laude (Rated M) that had a mausturbation mini game, and BMX XXX/The Guy Game showed real topless womrn not just Picels, but this was in the game no hacking required and its almost as bad, what about in the WWE Smackdown games where hackers pulled charectors out of the game that legally shouldnt be there due to copyrights, did they get sued NO! This is just a double standard because people like Joe Lieberman hate GTA.
–Steve–
July 11th, 2005 at 11:59 pm
“mausturbation mini game”
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is that a game for horny german mice?
July 12th, 2005 at 5:28 am
Its supposed to say Masturbation Mini game which is also called Penis Pong dl a trial of LSL if you don believe it
–Steve–
July 14th, 2005 at 2:02 am
I fully agree, however, this was not in the game. It only takes 20k of code to tell a graphic engine to process multiple action, especially, if you are using assembler, which is where this person had to start. Another thing, If you have to CRACK something, then according to some laws, that is copyright infringement, and is I were rockstar, I would sue for copyright infringement FOR ANYONE THAT HAS ADDED THIS TO THEIR GAME. I agree that this is bullshit. Its ok to allow a Terrorist, someone that we still pay, to run around, and no one knows where he is. I am more worried about someone killing me than me getting a shock that rockstar had a sex minigame in GTA.