See, the impression I was given from where I heard about it was that they'd heard of the new 1st person mode, and were uncomfortable with first person sex acts, and felt that it was innappropriate to stock. It doesn't look quite like that with reference to the links provided by other posters though. That given, I can understand and empathise with the linked petition (Also, this isn't referring to simply "Killing women". It's even in the petition. It's more the whole, fuck a prostitute, beat her to death to get money back (Doubly cheap if you don't shoot them). Which is pretty fucked up, and sex workers are often the victims of sex crimes, and are often marginalised. I personally don't agree with them, but I can understand how they can find the content offensive, sickening, or upsetting.
Me personally? I don't think it's innappropriate to stock given it's under an R rating and meant to be sold to adults. But it always ends up in the hands of kids, because they just get their parents to buy it. And that's not just a problem with "Stupid Parents" because how many of you guys did the same thing? Don't tell me that all of you waited until the right age to play these things, I'm sure more than a few of us are in fact those whiny annoying kids, with stupid parents, just a decade or so later (My mother hates guns and violence, so I wasn't let in on the fun. I couldn't even get the Fellowship of the Ring game when I was 16, because the clerk insisted on ID for an MA-15 title, and she decided that it was probably too violent then. God that's pathetic). And let's not pretend that Rockstar intends for it to only be bought by mature adults.
If Target doesn't stock it, if they don't want to, I really don't care. They don't feel it's good for their bottom line, so I guess they're off the list when I'm price checking for my copy when it comes out on PC. I don't personally agree with their position and reasoning, I think they're wrong and misguided, but who gives a flying fuck? It's going to be sold. It's going to sell like mad. No-one is obliged to have their stuff sold from any particular store, and at the very least, here they're criticizing very specifically the product.
Zhukov said:
BathorysGraveland2 said:
The biggest question that needs to be addressed here is who the fuck goes to Target for video games?
Wait, you're from Australia?
Huh. For some reason that I cannot now recall I always assumed you were European.
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Hold on one damn second,
you're another Tasmanian? That's not something I ever expected to see. Which city? Er... if you don't mind me asking.
How many of us are there on here? I thought I was alone in this back-end of nowhere. Hobart here, transplanted from Launceston(Or inceston as they seem to call it down South abouts).