Take 2 Board Member Bails Over Hot Coffee, "Unhealthy Atmosphere"

[gamepolitics]

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oh no it's Enron agian...

[hentai_jeff]

why do I have a slight feeling this could degenerate into the same crap from the enron scandle, just not as impactful on the employees?

[silver_derstin]

Smells like something is rotten in Take-Two land. And something tells me someone is laughing down in the South.

Never bought any Take-Two game personnaly, and to see them fall under could be a good wake-up call for the GTA-clone manufacturer.

Developer and Publisher. Know the difference.

[pyrrhus9588]

Take-Two Interactive are a publisher. If they go under it won't have much of an effect on GTA other than making Rockstar Games find itself a new publisher (which I'd imagine they'd have little trouble doing) or decide to publish their own games.

GTA, Midnight Club etc. won't be going away anytime soon.

Vital missing item

[jabrwock]

Not like TT lost money. They just didn't MAKE as much as they thought they would. Hot Coffee was blamed for $40 million loss in revenue, so they ONLY made $34 million this year... instead of $65 mil from last year.

I doubt TT is "going down" (as one lunatic put it) anytime soon.

Re: Developer and Publisher. Know the difference.

[illspirit]

R* and R*^ are both wholy owned subsidaries of T2 though. And I would imagine the IP rights to the GTA franchise are totally T2's as well. For R* to just up and move to another publisher of their own volition would require something just short of an Act of God™.

Should T2 go down, R* and GTA would likely find themselves auctioned off as T2 liquidated their assets. To avoid being assimilated by a monster publisher like EA or Activision would need some serious corporate ninjitsu...

[healer1422]

This is no real big suprise. they got slapped for the whole Hot Coffee ordeal and they need to pin it on someone. this is just normal big business redirection. someone had to take the hit.

Eh

[braindead1]

I dont care! really...

I play Bioware games! BIOWARE!

Go BioWare !!!

[gamepolitics]

good stuff...

Re: Eh

[lordlundar]

Ahhh, Bioware. Local company (Edmonton) who develops some stellar games.

Too bad about the merger. I wonder how this will affect the games being released?

Re: Eh

[jabrwock]

Maybe the next Full-Spectrum Warrior will get better rag-doll physics? Bioware was started by a couple of doctors afterall... :P

[traiklin]

I still don't get what the big deal is about the Hot Coffee stuff.

#1 on the PC where it was first discovered, it required a hack in order to see it. I don't remember playing through it and entering a cheat code or doing something magical in game that allowed me to see it.

#2: when it was found to be on the console that's when it raised foul with people, Why? you required a cheat device or a modded system in order to see it, there was no way to see it by just playing the game.

What about Monsters Ball? That movie I seem to remember Billy Bob banging the bejesus out of Halley Berry, yet did the movie studio, MPAA and the actors get written up and people throwing a big fit? No, they get a god damn award for it.

[nightwng2000]

It's the fact that the code was left there that drew the most attention. That plus the lie told by Take-Two. That was what did the most damage.

nightwng2000

[jabrwock]

Actually they didn't outright lie. But they WERE extremely dodgy about it.

[aniki21]

Yeah - there'd not have been half as big an outrage even if the feature had been left in, in my opinion. It's that they tried to cover it up that really got them in trouble - made it easy to paint them as deviants smuggling pornography into your home for your children, which is of course taking things totally out of context.