GTA: VC drops "Kill all th Haitins" Line

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  • theraidenproject
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    • Jun 2001
    • 1240
    #1

    GTA: VC drops "Kill all th Haitins" Line

    http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/10/nyregion/10HAIT.html
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    My take: What a load of crap. If you don't like the content of a game, don't play it. If there was a character in a gangster movie who fought a Haitian gang, would they care? [sarcasm]Absolutely, because video games are somehow different[/sarcasm] Would I care if Tommy was Haitian instead and tha game commanded him to "Kill all the Caucaisians"? The answer is hell no. Incidents like this really piss me off, and as much as I hate liars, I hope that Take Two doesn't keep thier promise.

    edit - Changed "somehoe" to "somehow"
    Last edited by theraidenproject; 12-10-2003, 08:23 PM.
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    • BobTheCow63
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      • Dec 2002
      • 3832
      #2
      I don't know, but I think it's pretty funny that you just said "some hoe" instead of "somehow."
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        • sharpshooter1286
          Registered User
          • Feb 2003
          • 1114
          #3
          thats not fair...i love that game, why can't they be allowed to put something in their game? other games say much much worse things, but this one gets blamed? thats heresy.

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            • LittlePaintballBoy
              #4
              Can someone copy and paste the article for me? It says I have to be a member.

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                • Lopy-slopy
                  #5
                  ya paste it so we can see.

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                    • theraidenproject
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                      • Jun 2001
                      • 1240
                      #6
                      Anyone is free to use my account.
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                      December 10, 2003
                      Video Game Maker to Drop 'Kill Haitians' Line
                      By SABRINA TAVERNISE

                      New York-based video game company announced yesterday that it would make changes to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, a game that had provoked angry protests from Haitian immigrants and city officials.

                      The best-selling game features dialogue at one point that exhorts players to "kill all the Haitians."

                      Bending to pressure from the community and from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who spoke out against the game on Sunday at a Haitian church in Brooklyn, the game company, Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., apologized, saying it would delete the dialogue from new copies of the game.

                      Census figures for 2000 showed that 204,561 Haitians lived in the New York metropolitan area.

                      "We are aware of the hurt and anger in the Haitian community and have listened to the community's objections to certain statements made in the game," the company said in a statement. "Accordingly, we will remove the objectionable statements from future copies."

                      The video game was published by, Rockstar Games Inc., one of Take-Two Interactive Software's labels. The company is the second-largest publisher of video games in the United States, and employs about 1,000 people.

                      This is not the first time the Grand Theft Auto series has been criticized for its violence. An earlier version had a plotline in which players had sex with prostitutes, staged carjackings and killed passers-by, among other criminal acts. Vice City increased the violence and sexual content.

                      Though Vice City was released in October 2002, the public debate in New York over the dialogue began about a month ago, when a local station, WCBS-TV, Ch. 2, carried a report about it on Nov. 6.

                      Since then, pressure from community leaders had mounted and was capped on Sunday, when Mr. Bloomberg said of the game: "It is disgraceful. It's vulgar."

                      Mr. Bloomberg, in a statement yesterday, said he was "very pleased" that the game company had decided to "remove offensive statements made by characters in the game."

                      But members of the Haitian community were more cautious. Garry Pierre-Pierre, editor in chief of The Haitian Times of Brooklyn, said Haitians were waiting to see whether the game company would keep its promise to remove the offensive language.
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                        • LittlePaintballBoy
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                          They have already sold millions of copies, and there are millions more just sitting in some warehouse, are they going to order everyone sends in their copy, IMO it is kind of retarded of them for doing it now, after it has been the best selling game for months .

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                            • rehme
                              varmit slayer
                              • Mar 2002
                              • 1480
                              #8
                              isn't it rated M? well if they were mature i would imagine that they could think that it is just a game.

                              jeeeeez, i think this world just likes to complain all the time!


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                                • danheneise
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                                  • Jan 2003
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                                  #9
                                  am i the only one here that realizes how long this game has been out, and they're just now complaining? riiggghhhtttt...

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                                    • Lopy-slopy
                                      #10
                                      They may be slow, but their are alot of them. This is just a way to calm the storm of protest, it wont have any real affect on anything.

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