Rockstar, Sony, and Take-two in $600million lawsuit.

[Dreddz]

This kind of reminds me of that time I played Custer's Revenge and ended up raping and killing some Native American chick.

Wow, lets just hope you dont mimic Beat 'Em & Eat 'Em.

[The Infinite Telomerase]

Because We don't post stuff like this, even hidden in spoiler tags. Don't do it again.

~Void

[Hawkeye]

The minute you put a lawsuit up for ridiculous amounts of money in scenarios like this, it is not about the victims killed but merely about the money.

[Paro]

Lawsuits of this class are usually settled by the defendant paying the cost of defense. Which is the whole point of the lawsuit. For a few hundred thousand the plaintiff agrees to go away quietly, rather than loudly dragging the issue through a courtroom with subsequent exposure of the defendant to a potential large judgement (case merit not required), and/or bad media publicity. It's a form of extortion.

[Rase]

I agree with those who say video games DO affect the players. They DO, but not enough to cause actual shootings. Such terrible events are generally triggered by other influences and/or mental instability.

I'm in agreement with Samuraid on eveything here. The effect that video games have on a person do not, to me, seem to be enough to make people go out and commit these crimes. It may serve as "just another thing" in a long list of influences, but then so can books, music, and other types of media, as well as things in their life, any mental disabilities or conditions, and a host of other things.

As for the lawsuit, well, the part were they say Sony and Co. should have forseen that it would be copied seems pretty silly to me. How are they to know the mental conditions and life issues of everyone who buys their game? Placing the blame solely on video games is just stupid, especially considering the number of people who play videogames now.

[Raistlin]

People who say video games cause violence are making a common error for people who don't know statistics - mistaking a causal relationship.

It is much more logically plausible that violent people are simply more likely to play violent games. This kid who played GTA obsessively was, more than likely, a very prone-to-violence kid to begin with, hence liking GTA so much.

[Erdrick Holmes]

If you go nuts and kill somebody saying you learned it from a video game you're a fricken idiot and I think deserve extra jailtime. I've played violent video games my wholel ife, I've never killed somebody because of them. A game doesn't put a gun in your hand and tell you to go kill, you do.

[ljkkjlcm9]

Saying guns kill people is like saying your pen misspelled words. "Hey, looks like you spelled some words wrong."...."Oh yeah, I need a new pen.

now it's even worse if you say video games are the reason someone killed someone. So the game not only put the gun in your hand, it made you pull the trigger too? There are far more problems with the person than playing violent video games if they go out and kill someone. Where'd this 14 year old even get the gun? That's a problem in itself.

THE JACKEL

[Sephex]

Gamers are just as ignorant saying video games have no impact. I do think violent video games do influence people ( usually kids ) to do bad things. But so do most media. It depends on the situation, Jack Thompson does seem to always blame video games though, but he has got a point.

Right. And there are people who say the Bible/religion inspired them to kill thier fellow man. I guess we should sue Jesus Christ or something.

[KentaRawr!]

Gamers are just as ignorant saying video games have no impact. I do think violent video games do influence people ( usually kids ) to do bad things. But so do most media. It depends on the situation, Jack Thompson does seem to always blame video games though, but he has got a point.

Right. And there are people who say the Bible/religion inspired them to kill thier fellow man. I guess we should sue Jesus Christ or something.

Jesus must have seen it coming. That's why he didn't whoop them guards with Christ Kung-Fu when he was being put on the cross. Then, he'd go on to heaven, and then he couldn't get sued.

Anyway, as for my take on this...

I will not deny that video games can affect people in negative ways. However, saying they directly cause major violence with children is not only foolish due to (insert piece of common sense here), but also because violent crime rates have dropped since the Playstation's release. Not to imply that video games STOP violence, but to say Video Games INCREASE violent crime rates in children is silly since they've dropped.

[escobert]

this is so stupid, some just kill Thompson.

[Lindy]

People who say video games cause violence are making a common error for people who don't know statistics - mistaking a causal relationship.

It is much more logically plausible that violent people are simply more likely to play violent games. This kid who played GTA obsessively was, more than likely, a very prone-to-violence kid to begin with, hence liking GTA so much.

Actually, following psychological studies, people who play violent video games tend to become more violent, but the relationship is more like smoking is to cancer; if you smoke, you're more likely to get cancer, but just because you're smoking doesn't mean you'll definitely get it.

On a lighter note, isn't it fun how Jack Thompson preaches against video games inciting violence, and then one or more people in a topic (on a video game forum) suggest murdering the guy, really clears the water eh?

[ljkkjlcm9]

On a lighter note, isn't it fun how Jack Thompson preaches against video games inciting violence, and then one or more people in a topic (on a video game forum) suggest murdering the guy, really clears the water eh?

but how many of us do you think would actually kill him if given the chance?

From my own studies of people I know playing games, they all use games as an outlet for anger and the like, to not actually do anything violent.

THE JACKEL

[Markus. D]

mhmm, this could of happened just the same if he watched a movie of the same nature in the same nature of the nature.

[ValkyrieWing]

Wow...