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Zonie63 -> RE: Hackers playing rape online (8/17/2014 8:51:00 AM)
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ORIGINAL: egern
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ORIGINAL: DesideriScuri
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ORIGINAL: egern
GTA 5 Online players are virtually raping each other, should we be OK with this?
As Grand Theft Auto V Online hackers get better at modifying the game's code to do their bidding, instances of nude avatars running around naked raping others in vineyards are on the up.
Several players have reported others coming up to them in-game, locking themselves to their characters and initiating pelvic thrust animations from which there is no escape, with videos of the online 'attacks' being uploaded to YouTube.
The trend was labelled "disturbing" by The Huffington Post and the videos "too inappropriate" to embed by The Telegraph, but in a gaming series that has for years seen players gleefully maim, decapitate and bludgeon each other, is this outrage justified?
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/gaming/gta-5-online-players-are-virtually-raping-each-other-is-this-ok-9667198.html
I see several issues here:
One is the quite practical one that it is annoying to have your game ruined by some hacker attacking a character on to your character which you cannot then get rid of.
Secondly, they do it mostly with females, and if you have been raped, this would definitely destroy at least your game!
Thirdly, is it disturbing in the light of recent real world rapes like the Steubenville case and others where the rape went on the net and the victim was hounded into suicide. It does not, to me, seem a joke.
But then people argue that it is no worse than the destruction and murder going on in the games anyway.
What to think of this?
Where does the line get drawn? In those games, you are stealing cars. You can attack random people (male or female). You can run them down. You can ram other vehicles. I think there has been complaints raised about "Easter Eggs" hidden in the game that include pornographic or nearly pornographic gameplay, which were changed.
The problem here is the hacking. The game itself isn't the problem. If the hackers weren't successful in hacking the game, would there be a problem? IF not, then it's not the game itself. Whoever makes the game needs to address this issue. The hacking needs to be investigated and any hackers caught should be tried and punished according to the law (if found guilty).
But this is not 'attacking' random people, but mostly women, and the joke is put on You tube afterwords. I do not play many games, so I have to ask you if this is normal??
Erotic scenes in themselves are not a problem, not to me anyway, but the way this mock rape is done is uncomfortably like the Steubenville cases and others where the rape was taped and put online.
I don't think it would be considered "normal" by any standard, although I've noticed that some gamers have a bit of...intensity...about them. I never really did get much into GTA, although it seems to be hyped more than other games. I've been into Command and Conquer, which has numerous mods available, although I generally prefer turn-based strategy games rather than these real time shoot-em-ups.
Whatever happened to the good old days of Donkey Kong, Crazy Climber, Dragon's Lair, Pac Man, Spy Hunter, Elevator Action, and all those other old favorites?
We didn't have any of that X-Box stuff, like these kids have today. We had to walk to the video arcades barefoot in the snow, with a pocketful of quarters to put in the machines.
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