I found it kind of amusing that one Equality Now member is quoted as saying that the game has "no place on the market," specifically using a term about sales, and yet the whole point of the article is that there is a significant "market" that's downloading the game. Maybe someone should explain to Equality Now what "market" means. Then they can go back to just talking about how it's really bad, mmkay?, etc.
(Note: I'm not into rape games, but I'm also not into censorship because of a group's moral outrage, even if I think the game sounds pretty bad.)
You know, I don't actually think that Equality Now is a likely culprit in this virus, but that actually be kinda funny. (Also an unlikely culprit but someone who benefits: MangaGamer, a rep from which recently spoke out about rampant visual novel piracy.)
...But I'm sure the actual culprit is just some jerk with a hard-on against anime fans or something. What do you think?
About those games... " (Note: I'm not into rape games, but I'm also not into censorship because of a group's moral outrage, even if I think the game sounds pretty bad.) " this is my point of view.
Also even when if it's supposed to be bad and I don't actually like it, I kind of like the idea that you can find anything, even this, as long as it's something that doesn't affect directly to someone.
This is a prime example as to why downloading comes with an advantage. They don't really have to worry about how some group might take offense. Causing official publishers to alter or censor in order the placate people who were never going to be interested in buying the game to begin with. So, in a very sad way. It's the downloaded versions that often ends up being the most accurate. Such as in what I talked about in my blog post about how VIZ removed the word "god" completely from the One Piece manga. While the change made wasn't story altering in this case. It was just silly and pointless.
It should be that official companies make the most accurate product possible, but that's not always the case.
Or a nearly empty computer can get filled up with pronigraphic pictures if your Tatsushiro Satou
Man my friend showed me the ending to School Days on Crunchyroll and now I kind of want to watch the series to see how the story worked out to the point where the main characters just completely lost their minds.
Yeah.
@Konanda: It's kind of interesting but I still feel like it was kind of a big jump. But meh.
@ General: Regarding the virus, it's basically a program that looks like the installer for the actual game but when you run it, it asks for information such as your name and whatever, then it posts the info on a site for all the internet to see, alongside a screencap of your desktop when you finished "running" the program, which I imagine is rather bad if you're getting ready to play an H-game. You can get your info taken down, but you gotta admit to having downloaded the game and then apologize for it. The funny thing is that the program tells you what it's going to do right in the EULA, but as typical nobody reads that. >_>
That sounds fun.
this is true , there are many others that is ............. wilder
EN= idiots, they don't even have an understanding of the terminology they use
rapelay? no market?
why the fuck there's 6 series?
If we applied the "OH NO RAPELAY" logic to everyone who purchased Grand Theft Auto, we'd be living in the post-apocalyptic age right now.
My point is: Hasn't this been figured out yet? There have been far more "obscene" things, and from a more conservative time, that have steadfastly been protected under freedom-of-speech laws.
The sky's the limit for me. Any manner of "obscene" ideas can exist and pass by me, and also be put up to scrutiny and debate; but I don't think you should simply try and make something not exist... Don't be such a pussy... Challenge yourself.
What's more obscene? These rape games? ...or perhaps that scene in Saving Private Ryan, where the character has a knife slowly plunged into his chest... Why is it always sex-related matters that receive the most attention for being obscene? Prudes; that's why. Prudes.
I watched the video on the article and a few thoughts come to mind. Why should we be concerned that the Japanese are producing things that can be considered pornographic? The states makes things like that too, called porn. Sure the game depicts rape, but porn has that too, and more... Also, apparently not wanting to take the calls of CNN on behalf of the morally self righteous, right-wing, conservatives using feminism as an excuse to censor other countries media makes their government "insensitive" to the issue. You can tell they aren't real feminist, cause they aren't tackling a real issue like equalizing pay grades, and of course the Japanese government would have nothing better to do than to indulge them. A feminist group campaigning against something like this is like if PETA tried to ban animal crackers. "WHEAT, GLUCOSE, SUCROSE, AND HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP IS MURDER!" It's also worth noting that they acknowledged that the last time this was controversial, the news coverage was free advertising and lead to international recognition of this sub-par porn game. Then, it seems like the obvious thing to do would be to cover it again and tell people that they can get it FREE!
I guess the main point is that this is interactive porn? I guess the fact that interactive porn was introduced in the states back when Unscrewed was on what was still called Tech TV and covered the Adult Entertainment Expo doesn't count? I like the final line in the video: "...no one should play a game in which the only way to win is to rape." The business model of Call of Duty disagrees.
AC series would very much like a word with this people