blaming video game

Now I’m get­tin’ serious.

I came across from Gamespot News and I have heard some­thing that really hurt my (lit­tle) gamer’s heart. It’s said:

Now, one thing that won’t go on in Thai­land is sales of Rock­star Games’ block­buster action game Grand Theft Auto IV. Reuters is report­ing that the country’s main game dis­trib­u­tor has dropped the game faster than a Muay Thai knee strike fol­low­ing an appar­ent copy­cat mur­der. Accord­ing to the news ser­vice, an 18-year-old stu­dent sought to imi­tate the game by rob­bing, stab­bing, and killing a Bangkok taxi dri­ver in an attempt to re-create the game’s vio­lent action.

“He said he wanted to find out if it was as easy in real life to rob a taxi as it was in the game,” top police detec­tive Veer­avit Pipat­tanasak told Reuters.

Though there are no actual mis­sions in GTAIV which require play­ers to rob, stab, or kill a taxi dri­ver, the teen’s con­fes­sion was enough to make Era Inter­ac­tive Media cease sell­ing the game. “We are send­ing out requests today to out­lets and shops to pull the games off their shelves and we will replace them with other games,” New Era sales and mar­ket­ing direc­tor Sakchai Chotikachinda told the news ser­vice. “We are also urg­ing video game arcades to pull the games from service.“

Chotikachinda’s com­ments were echoed by Ladda Thang­su­pachai, direc­tor of the Thai Min­istry of Culture’s Cul­tural Sur­veil­lance Cen­tre. “This time-bomb has already exploded and the sit­u­a­tion could get worse,” he declared. “Today it is a cab dri­ver, but tomor­row it could be a video game shop owner.“

The removal of GTAIV from retail is likely to give ammu­ni­tion to Thai advo­cates of game reg­u­la­tion. Cur­rently, the coun­try has no game-ratings sys­tem, although even the equiv­a­lent of an M-for-Mature rat­ing would not have pre­vented an 18-year-old from pur­chas­ing the game.

That’s ridicu­lous. Only idiot would blame the video game was wrong. That kid would just com­pletely gone insane or unsta­ble men­tally. So he could kill the taxi dri­ver, but no one in there thought of that and banned the game.

Good thing is R? wouldn’t have to worry about their prof­its. — 3-“

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Note: Thai­land isn’t like US. even 9 years-old kid could just walk in and get God of War with­out par­ents or oii/one-san.

source: Gamespot news

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