Take-Two settles Hot Coffee suit for $20M
Take-Two has settled the long-running Hot Coffee lawsuit for a huge $20 million.
The suit is based around the inclusion of hidden sexual content in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas which was thought by some to be inaccessible in the game but was soon unlocked by players. The Federal Trade Commission investigated the matter in 2006 and found that Take-Two had been deceptive in how it marketed the game, though no fines or criminal charges were bought to bear against the company.
In return for the $20 million USD settlement the class action lawsuit will be dismissed. The money will then be deposited in a settlement fund that claimants can access.
It's also worth clarifying that this settlement stems from a 2006 consolidated securities class action lawsuit which is based on both the hidden content and the stock option issues, not the 2005 consumer class action suit.
Take-Two chairman Strauss Zelnick released a short statement saying that Take-Two was pleased to have reached a settlement and that it "represents another important step forward for the Company."
Of the proposed settlement Take-Two will only actually pay out $4,915,000 USD, while the remainder will be covered by various insurance firms.
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I can't believe how many years later this is.
You'd expect people would have something better to do than complain about hidden 18 rated content in an 18 Rated game.
These people are no better than patent hoarders in my opinion.
How you could claim for seeing something that you went looking for is beyond me. :(
Who cares about violence, it's the sex that upsets me, it's unnatural. They're all going to hell etc.
And yet they get fined for a couple of pixels shagging?
Ugh.
By which I meant that the average user (bearing in mind this is a technical forum, and nobody here could really be considered an "average" user) would never normally get to see the content during the course of playing the game. Only if you actively searched for the changes needed and then actively applied those changes would you ever get to see the content.
That is, it is by your own actions that you saw something - and as such, you have no right to complain or expect recompense.
Ah Ok...
I do also have to mention... I tried that hot coffee mod, and I don't know why people made such a big deal about it really, because when they were... "movin tha pixels" they were still wearing their clothes (they didn't even pull their trousers down) - but some modders seemed like hormoanally desperate 13 year olds who had made mods for them to look naked... lol
Rockstar tried brushing it off when it appeared on the PC version as "someone inserting modified code", but when it came to light on the PS2 version (which, by the nature of the console, is read-only), they had to admit it was hidden?
Anyway, they did something bad, got busted, and paid for it. It's still not as extreme as the drug-fuelled hooker-murdering, but it was "graphic sexual content", and therefore would have pushed the rating higher.
interesting view
i wont rant as peeps have already said how ridiculous this is. cant believe it though
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