A slice of the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas “Hot Coffee” saga -- which came screaming into focus in 2005 -- has closed with a whimper. Earlier this afternoon Take-Two announced that it settled a class action suit brought against them because of the crude, but inaccessible content for a cool twenty million dollars.
“Hot Coffee” was a sex mini-game originally included on the San Andreas disc. It didn’t make the final cut, thus it wasn’t playable or even known to players, but a mod released in 2005 unlocked the content and caused quite the hullabaloo with political-types and, of course, Internet dwellers.
The exposure of the content provoked the ESRB to re-rate the game to an “AO for Adults Only,” prompting retailers to pull it from their store shelves. The title would later return without the content included on the disc.
In short, “Hot Coffee” was a mess, but at least the suit is toast.
“We are pleased to have reached this settlement, which represents another important step forward for the Company,” Take-Two brass Zelnick said in the official release. And for the record: we’re pleased they did, too.
[via Shacknews]
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4:00 AM on 09.02.2009
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well, for one thing it exposed the unsuspecting buyers of an M-rated game who just wanted to engage in virtual wanton violence and mass slaughter to the horrors of consensual sex between fictional characters.
On a related note, I liked how they called the GTA IV trophy "Warm Coffee".
i can only hope the ill gotten publicity has generated enough sales to cover some of this loss for take2.
$20 million...
Leaving that mini game somewhere in the game was a very, very VERY stupid thing to do.
That said, 20 million is absurd. Didn't you had to download a patch or something to make it work? So if you saw it, it was your own fault. Still. It's over. Let's make believe nothing happened.
...okay, I'm stopping now.
What are the principles America was founded on?
God I'm so good at Jeopardy.
As for the idiots who decided to sue, i want to say this: Rest assured that the hype surrounding this suit has probably generated a huge chunk out of that 5 mil that T2 had to pay. Tools!
What was it, like $35 bucks back or something if you were 'offended' @ the potential to unlock sexxins? Speaking of Sex, double lol to zombiekiller13 and Cr0ssbow, well played accurate American image.
At least our marketing people aren't afraid to sexualize food. Kids don't have protected sex, they burger fux.
...i see what you did there...
...i see what you did there...
haha
I'm glad they got this settled. Took long enough! damn!!
I'm sorry, I really don't follow that. What the fuck kind of "morals" does America work on these days?
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