[QUOTE=asteroidrules;46957494]Isn't arbitrarily dictating what stores can and can't sell with no regard for the company's own intentions a bit of an affront to their own rights?[/QUOTE]
he's asking
not dictating
[editline]17th January 2015[/editline]
It's also just a curious decision on their part as they stock games that are arguably just as violent and pointless in their violence so what makes this game a no go, if it was to be a no go.
[editline]17th January 2015[/editline]
[QUOTE=Wolf532;46957465]Steam shouldn't be obligated to sell a dumb game because muh free speech.[/QUOTE]
no they're not obligated to
but they're also not obligated to not carry it because it's offensive.
ultimately it's their choice dictated entirely by the message they want to send to their customers and clients and partners.
People seem to take a real offense to this game, and seem to really jump the gun in discussions about the game with people who aren't shouting the same thing as you. Like you're saying "obligated" where he said "Hope", you're not even trying to respond to what he actually said. You jumped the gun to attack someone over potentially being a customer for a product we know will have literally 0% effect on peoples decisions to go kill other people. There's no reason for this kind of vitrol.
[QUOTE=strayebyrd;46954296]Criticism of media doesn't just have to be shitflinging, you can acknowledge differing opinions without getting mardy over it[/QUOTE]
Not sure what mardy is supposed to mean but the whole discussion was nothing but civil.
[QUOTE=DaCommie1;46946134]I wonder if there'll ever be someone who goes and tries to get an AO rating on a game with no sexual content.[/QUOTE]
AO doesn't necessarily mean sexual content, if the violence is bad enough it [I]can[/I] get an AO rating. Thrill Kill was an example of this, never had any sexual content in it but still got the AO rating. The Punisher was going to get it too but they changed some stuff to get it re-classified as an M rated game.
Damn, D2D really is back online. And i even managed to salvage an old email account from 5 years ago thats associated with it.
[QUOTE=Mr. Foster;46948588]I personally thought that the No Russian level from Modern Warfare 2 was pretty edgy at the time. I mean, you literally mow down an entire airport full of civilians with LMGs. The level definitely garnered some media attention, but the game still didn't get an AO rating. I really want to see things that are considered, "AO".[/QUOTE]
No Russian had a context in the story, was skippable and the moving down civilians with LMG's bit is only in the first part of the level, you spent the rest fighting armed guards/special forces
[QUOTE=strayebyrd;46946528]those have both been extensively criticised for displaying suffering for the sake of suffering to be fair[/QUOTE] plus SALO was banned from what I here.
[QUOTE=Mr. Foster;46948588]I really want to see things that are considered, "AO".[/QUOTE]
A.O. Scott
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