EA Defends The Sims' T Rating
GameSpot is reporting that anti-game activists have seized their momentum and are now attacking the best selling PC game of all time, The Sims. Having forced the ESRB to upgrade its ratings of GTA San Andreas to Adults Only, various forces are now working to mark up The Sims' Teen rating. No normally accessible content in either game is in question. The root of the problem stems from what is viewable after the game has been modded.
"The nudity placed there by the publisher/maker, Electronic Arts, is accessed by the use of a simple code that removes what is called 'the blur' which obscures the genital areas. In other words, the game was released to the public by the manufacturer knowing that the full frontal nudity was resident on the game and would be accessed by use of a simple code widely provided on the Internet."
The "simple code" is a software hack that reveals the featureless Barbie doll bodies underneath the blur filter. EA has called the mess "nonsense" and says there is "no content inappropriate for a teen audience" in the game.
Next Thursday EA will be broadcasting its quarterly stockholders' meeting online. It'll take place at 2:00 pm Pacific time if anyone wants to listen in. Fiscal first quarter results should be announced Tuesday.
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