Hot Coffee's Effects On The GTA Mod Scene

simoniker writes "Over a year after the infamous 'Hot Coffee' incident, author and game designer Brenda Brathwaite explores the tragic aftermath on the GTA mod community — including interviews with 'Hot Coffee' creator PatrickW, the ESRB's Patricia Vance, and more." From the article: "The second version of San Andreas was made 'much more mod-resistant' according to Patrick, and among members of the community, there is doubt that future versions will be moddable at all. 'This has already made good people leave the scene,' Patrick adds. Among those that remain, there exists a certain amount of caution. 'Some innocent modding stuff isn't getting released,' says Patrick, 'because modders are afraid it might cause another controversy.'"

Media Hype alert!

[miasmic]

"'Some innocent modding stuff isn't getting released,' says Patrick, 'because modders are afraid it might cause another controversy.'"

Yeah and Elvis Presley lives at the bottom of my yard with the fairies. Since when have individuals on the internet been afraid of controversy? Sounds like a load of horsecrap to me. If they really are afraid of controversy, they must have a hugely inflated sense of self importance. Like anyone gives two craps if someone makes a mod in his bedroom, what are they worried about, their carefully crafted professional reputation on the modding scene? The cops coming round to arrest them? Give me a break.

God !

[frost22]

what are you ? all trolls ?

Take2 was a victim. The modders were victim. But the super trolls around here blame victims only, apparently.

Well trolls, I tell you what. Blame the fucking conservatives and bigots who produced that fucking "outcry". The fanatical save the children hypocrites. The right wing noise machines. All those braindead voters who vote brainfree teflon critters into congreß, or those fucktards who actually let preachers near politics, and all the other stupidos.

But godamned stop blaming the victims.

Sex is ok and a little sex game doesn't hurt the GTA target group. Fucking full stop! Morons who think sex is evil and try to force their sicko warped world view upon us belong into jails or asylums for the mad, not into congress and city halls! And doofus fucking stupid voter who vote the cretins into office should hide their heads in shame instead of trolling slashdot.

My God, when will this country wake up !

And to the fucking conservative fascists who will try to rate this as flamebait or overrated, you are sick little control freaks. This a hearttfelt political opinion about a very political topic affecting us all, so go and shove your worthless little plays.

Re:Dumbest line ever

[Anonymous Coward]

Controversy for the corporation is bad for the modder because the controversy makes the corporation wonder if the modder community which provides a lot of job satisfaction and spawns creative new ideas is actually worth more than the lawsuits from Jack T. and his ravening wolves.

Modders = Intangible; Jack = Millions of Dollars.

Any modder who knows where they are on the food chain will try to ensure that their mod doesn't get its host product in hot water. What good does it do you to gain a sex scene but lose access to the entire game? (And as Hot Coffee demonstrated, even the most trite of little hacks -- after all, with so much violence and violent sex, what's a little more sex other than a David Lynch movie? -- can cause a lot of rabbling amoung the strangely naive peasantry. Which is why modders are erring on the side of caution.)