Well, the lawyer attack has started

[Auryg]

Gamespot Article

In a manifesto sent today to press outlets, Thompson focuses on dismantling the Entertainment Software Ratings Board and exposing what he calls the industry's "latest dirty little secret." The secret's out now, and it involves nude sims.

In the statement, Thompson says, "Sims 2, the latest version of the Sims video game franchise ... contains, according to video game news sites, full frontal nudity, including nipples, penises, labia, and pubic hair."

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It's not just the adults that are liberated from their wardrobes. Sims kids can also be nudified, "much to the delight, one can be sure, of pedophiles around the globe who can rehearse, in virtual reality, for their abuse

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Jeff Brown, vice president of corporate communications at EA, in response to the accusations, told GameSpot, "This is nonsense. We've reviewed 100 percent of the content. There is no content inappropriate for a teen audience. Players never see a nude sim. If someone with an extreme amount of expertise and time were to remove the pixels, they would see that the sims have no genitals. They appear like Ken and Barbie."

Thompson doesn't buy it. "The sex and the nudity are in the game. That's the point. The blur is an admission that even the 'Ken and Barbie' features should not be displayed. The blur can be disarmed. This is no different than what is in San Andreas, although worse."

The guy was proven wrong, and he's still continuing his crap. Obviously EA wasn't going to show "ken and Barbie" like bodies, that'd just look like crap. So they put in a blur. It was either that or actual nudity.

There's no way to win with these guys. I could turn on my tv right now and see a girl gone wild commercial with very small portions blocked out, of REAL PEOPLE ACTUALLY COMITTING SEXUAL ACTS, and yet these guys care about a videogame with virtually no violence in it, and everything is very unrealistic.

"This is no different than what is in San Andreas, although worse." Yeah..that makes sense. No different, although worse.

Idiot.

 

[linjy2]

hes in it for the money of course. like he really cares if theirs nudity in games.

 

[TerryMathews]

Originally posted by: linjy2
hes in it for the money of course. like he really cares if theirs nudity in games.

No, if you'd read any of Thompson's stuff, you'd know he's really a closet Amish person bent on destroying the video game industry.

He's the same guy that sues iD, Activision, etc. every time someone gets shot.

 

[ShadowBlade]

wow
there is NO nudity in any of these games unless you go out of your way to get it
-San andreas: have to download a mod
-Sims 2 (and 1): have to download a nude skin
-most other 3D games with females: have to download something

 

[Queasy]

Thompson and Hillary (he cc'd her in his message) to the rescue! It's a good thing we have crusaders like Thompson and politicians like Hillary to protect us from ourselves!

 

[KoolDrew]

That is just retarded.

 

[BespinReactorShaft]

:disgust:

 

[skace]

I said it in the GTA:SA thread that this was a fvcking mudslide. Not only will it affect these games, it will affect how future games are created because now all of a sudden mods have become some kind of liability. These people are going to suck the fun right out of games. God forbid they ever find out about the crackwhore from Quake2 or they might just attack developement content as part of the game as well.

 

[spherrod]

The guy is obviously a fruitloop

 

[flashbacck]

Originally posted by: ShadowBlade
wow
there is NO nudity in any of these games unless you go out of your way to get it
-San andreas: have to download a mod
-Sims 2 (and 1): have to download a nude skin
-most other 3D games with females: have to download something

yeah, but this douch is claiming EA is "co-operating, gleefully, with the mod community to turn Sims 2 into a porn offering." Sounds like he wants companies to actively discourage modding.