Surprisingly Few People Collect On GTA Hot Coffee

Relin writes "Out of the millions eligible, less than 3,000 have come forward to collect their money in the 'Hot Coffee' settlement. While the plaintiffs' lawyer is surprised by the development, Theodore Frank of the Legal Center for the Public Interest at the American Enterprise Institute seems convinced that the lawsuit was 'meritless' and will result in no payment for the legal counsel opposing Take-Two."

Surprise surprise

[Skreech]

American Enterprise Institute seems convinced that the lawsuit was "meritless" and will result in no payment for the legal counsel opposing Take-Two.

Oh boy, I can only hope. Oh please.

Re:Not surprised

[Anubis350]

Ah, I see you were stalking me this morning :-p

Re:Not worth my time.

[Anonymous Coward]

And frankly, anyone who buys Grand Theft Auto, the game that lets you kill hookers instead of paying them, is going to be hard to offend with some sex scene they have to use a hack to see in the first place.

I know, seriously! And how you can blame the makers of a game that merely simulates reality? What, next some lawyer's going to be telling me I can't kill hookers instead of paying them in real life?

Second Life?

[Anonymous Coward]

If the GTA makers owe me $35 for their hidden NPC sex scene, then the Second Life makers owe me seven figures for emotional trauma from the brief virtual walk I took though the general area.

I pirated it

[EmbeddedJanitor]

and I still want my money!

Re:Not surprised

[Maestro485]

For a second there I read it as 'Seth the Lesser' and wondered why a WoW character was lead lawyer.

Re:I pirated it

[morgan_greywolf]

Sure, just give us your name and address and we'll send you a check!

Thanks,
Take Two

Re:Not surprised

[clarkcox3]

Remember, any suggestion of sex or sexuality to children will warp their tiny widdle minds. ...but violence, that's just good red-blooded American fun.

I would pay dearly for a Grand-Theft-Auto Mod that

[ancient_kings]

had Joe Pesci, these stupid lawyers against Take-Two and a big, fat baseball bat....

I live in the GTA...

[camperdave]

I live in the GTA. Where do I get my free coffee?

Lack of option

[im_thatoneguy]

Could we send in $5 to enable the hot coffee mod?

Actually

[bigsexyjoe]

I bought a version that didn't have the sex scene. Can I collect $5 from the people that made them cut it out?

Re:SURPRISED!

[mrbluze]

I've never seen so much consensus in Slashdot comments!

Slashdot prefers to call that redundancy.

Re:Take Two owes more in legal fees

[mrbluze]

I say we cap the legal fees at 50% of the final settlement - IE for each $5 'settlement' received they get $5.

How did you manage to weave Microsoft's Internet Explorer into this mess?

hmmm

[nomadic]

What if I'm offended by other things in the game? Like the substandard story line, the lousy dialogue, the lack of interactivity with the environment, the poor AI, or the nonsensical game logic?

Re:Not surprised

[Anonymous Coward]

Why were you and your 5 year old daughter's friends discussing WooHoos?

Re:Not surprised

[aussie_a]

Who the fuck would tell their kids its called a cookie while trying to keep them sheltered from sex? Cookies is something you eat. The child may eventually decide to test out why s/he calls it a cookie.

Re:Seriously...

[Anonymous Coward]

If I pay the $5, will they show me what all the fuss is about?

Re:Not surprised

[Anonymous Coward]

It is a video game where you can regenerate health with the services of a prostitute, kill her when she gets out of the car, take your money back, kill a cop and steal his cop car, kill national guard members and steal their tank, and these people are worried about a little bit of clothed dry humping?

Exactly. I bought this game and enjoyed it. There's no way I would stick it to the people who gave me so many hours of fun game play.

I really doubt any of the people actually purchasing this game were offended. There might be an occasional stupid parent who thought the hyper-violence in the game was tolerable, but the nudity was over the line. Regardless, it was baseless, in my opinion-- and the people who are okay with violence and freak out over nudity are rather scary. I would not enjoy living in their heads. Give me nude women any day over guns. I'll take both in my video games when it's an option, though.

Actually, the people who have a stranglehold on America's censorship are the scariest of all. Every other TV show or movie have probably ten times the violence than sex. I remember in the 1970s and early 80s, you could, at least, see the occasional boob on UHF broadcast. Something went wrong somewhere.

As Too Much Coffee Man said, "You can bear arms but you can't bare breasts."

Re:Not surprised

[discord5]

when my daughter walked in on me playing GTA the other day she admonished me to stop at red lights and not run anyone over.

Maybe she's really bad at GTA ;)

Re:Not surprised

[Killjoy_NL]

This puts a whole new spin on Sesame's Cookie Monster :D

Re:Not surprised

[Anonymous Coward]

Little kids often seem to have very different ideas on what's acceptable as compared to adults (even their parents).

No surprise they talk about such stuff. I think some of the stuff they say, do and think might horrify their parents.

A few of these little kids in my church think it's funny to run at me, and try to punch me in my balls. I most certainly didn't teach them that (and I doubt I gave them a good reason to). Maybe their parents taught them that? Or they learnt it from some movie/show?

Letting kids see shows where people hit others in their balls is not good. I figure that comes under violence.

However exposing little girls to male nudity, could make their aim better.

Re:I don't think it affects me

[julesh]

This doesn't apply to any versions of the game sold outside of the US, correct?

No, it doesn't. Nobody else is quite that stupid.

Re:Insane lawsuits in the US

[Kaenneth]

I really want to see Mr. and Mrs. Pacman getting it on while Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde watch...

Pink Taco, Anyone? NT

[encoderer]

...

Re:Maybe nobody cares?

[Opportunist]

Simulated sex has to be realistic to be fun?

Ok, you're not into Hentai, I can tell...:)

Re:Any surprise?

[CogDissident]

Because precious little 12 year old Timmy could never install a hack like that. It showed up all on its own, and now he is scarred for life, boobs should never be seen until you're 18 years old.

/sarcasm

Re:Not surprised

[AmaDaden]

It's not a pipe it's a PICTURE of a pipe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images [wikipedia.org]

Re:Any surprise?

[nacturation]

I think this article sums it up the best:

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=ticket_to_hell [thebestpag...iverse.net]
 

Donate my $5

[ezwip]

I would like to send Take Two an extra $5 for putting the coffee mod into the game. I found it much more entertaining then that.