ESRB Attempts to Shut Down Modding, Modding Strikes Back

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  • Frosty289

    #16
    LOL Ion

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    • KingJoe

      #17


      Heres an article on the sims 2 and talks about how people can mod, But this idiot doesn't realize that what these people are doing is illegal and EA is not accountable.

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      • Revek

        #18
        Esrb Sux!!! We Need A Mod Rating System So Those Sobs Will Leave Us Alone!! Yeah Game Makers Have The Abilty To Create Fun Things To Entertain Themselves And Yeah They Can Forget To Take It Out So Drop It Punks!

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        • Gulf_War_Syndrome

          #19
          Is anyone working on a nude patch for Battlefield 2 yet?

          How about some naughty pictures for the back of the cards in Solitaire? (A modified windows\system32\cards.dll should do it...)


          EDIT:
          For your entertainment...

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          • pyalot

            #20
            I still find it amazing.

            Something that's not almost purely black and white (like say driving too fast) can't be regulated by the juristiction of the police. Thus every such "grey" area enforcement would have to get court time.

            The bulk of the nutty ideas of nutty lawmakers simiply don't make it trough the burocratic grinding machine because somebody along the way notices that it would anihilate any and all reasonable proceedings by clogging up courts beyond rescue.

            A note to you, nutty lawmaker. If you can any way forsee that you're dealing with something that is so widespread practise it would be virtually impossible to enforce it judically, well, that's a clue you're just now thinking up a nutty idea. /wink /spank

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            • Chop_Suey35

              #21
              There just comes a point where the parents have to just step in (you know the whole parenting thing) making it sound like its a national crisis isn't nessary, big deal some guy mod gta its m rated game to begin with hello your 8 year old is excatly the target audience, and because of this now modding is "evil" thats sucks b.s

              by the way isn't counter-strike a mod off of half life

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              • pyalot

                #22
                What's a mod?

                Weelll, pretty much anything is on some level a mod of something else. Most game programmers start out as traditional modders anyway, and then sorta shift up the ladder until they do higher level modding.

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                • Augustus
                  Member
                  • Jul 2007
                  • 254

                  #23
                  You guys don't know what you are talking about.

                  The ESRB aren't trying to shut down modding.

                  The ESRB's problem is that the code, assets and animations for Hot Coffee was put in the game by Rockstar, and Rockstar knew it was only a matter of time before a coder 'unlocked' it.

                  When you submit a game for standards rating, you must disclose all parts of the game to them so they can assess it in its entirity. Rockstar didnt do that, they tried to slip this smut in under the radar and they got busted for it.

                  This has nothing to do with modding, its about Rockstar trying to subvert the rules and paying the price for getting caught.

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                  • 22CW Cainius

                    #24
                    ahahahahhahahhahahahahahahhahaaaa... yeah i wont be voting for these douches....

                    they are all jumping on the bandwagon in order to get the scared mom vote...

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                    • pyalot

                      #25
                      See Rockstar most likely didn't do that on purpose, as in "We're a kewl company and we put schmutz in our games and make it so the raters won't see it".

                      Most likely it's a dirty idea somebody had at one point, that maybe even got tried out, and then found the disaproval. Then either somebody simply forgot to thake it out for good, or the proposing programmer with a grudge that his idea was killed decided that he'll slip it in secretly. Q&A didn't look close enough at the checkins and you've the lametable situation.

                      Of course Rockstar is responsible, in the same way that parents are responsible for their Children.

                      I just wouldn't get so far as to accuse them of willing undermining of the Rating system because they felt like it.

                      Like most lamentable things that happen in the world, it's just a series of missunderstandings, errors, murphy and a bit of bad luck. Get over it, grow up. Your kids won't draw mental or physical dammage. Frikin americans, you're only happy if you can complain enough, cry and make a court-case out of every poop.

                      Me? I love it! Actually I bought the game only after this whole shebang went down. Congrats Rockstar for rocking the scene!

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                      • Sauron16

                        #26
                        Hillary Clinton can go eat a dick. Seriously 90 million to find out about games...give me the 90 million and I'll tell her all about it.

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                        • CXZAR

                          #27
                          Originally posted by Sauron16
                          Hillary Clinton can go eat a dick.
                          actually that's monica's job :-P

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                          • Sgt.NightFire

                            #28
                            I find it so american like to be upset about these stupid little things,the us has the biggest porn industry but a little bit of fake porn (fake cause he is f*cking with his clothes on)in a mod that has to be downloaded to work in a game is hell on earth for them:S....
                            I laughed so hard when the us whas shocked by that nipple incident with j.jackson,here in holland i see nipples and boobs all day on tv :S
                            And why are they so shocked about the porn,in the game itself you can shoot,kick,punch,burn and drive over them and that isn't shocking?
                            Only in America

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