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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6 Comments
upbringing is important.
Meh they had good reason to blame it all on the VG, but seriously, they should be investigating his family background as well.
It is not always about video games that lead to these crimes.. It also have to do with how the person was brought up in the first place..
@k agree
@panther not only the family background, they need also to investigate that kid as well.
@fariz you got the point.
the same thing happened a few years ago in England and the game to blame was Man Hunt.
@otaku dan seriously? I’ve never known that before.