Giant Bombcast 12/01/2015

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Dec. 1 2015

Posted by: Brad

@marokai said:

@xdeser2 said:

@justicejanitor said:

@rasmoss: But it was removed from store shelves.

That is entirely the choice of Target. Voice your concern with them. The criticism leveled toward GTA V is okay. Would it be okay if it was leveled toward entirely mechanical concerns and it was still pulled?

The worrying thing is that these days not many people of influence take a look at examples like Target removing GTA V from shelves and say "This is wrong, this shouldn't be happening." Instead people just sort of quietly excuse it. Which is basically what's happened in this case. Whether or not the publisher's reasoning is bullshit (which I think is about 80% bullshit) the response to this game not coming out here for those supposed reasons hasn't been disappointment that every audience can't be served, instead it's basically "Well, it is just a sick game for those people, so no big loss." I find the long-term consequences of that attitude troubling. And more than a little hypocritical.

Number one: the GTA5's publisher didn't decide to stop selling games at Target. Target decided to stop selling GTA5 at Target.

Number two: you're an asshole for saying that Target should sell games that they don't want to sell because it hurts your feelings. You're not any better than the people who bitched at Target for selling GTA5. If you don't like what Target is doing then it's your right as a consumer to not shop at their stores. People complained to Target so they decided to pull the game and let other people make money off of it. It was almost certainly done because they thought the outcry would outstrip the profit they'd make from sales. I don't know Target's demo in Australia, but if it's anything like the USA then I bet they don't make a whole lot of money off of video games.

Furthermore, no one is stopping you from buying bad games like DOAX3. Import it if you want it so bad. How is this different from if I wanted to play Ore no Ryouri (although admittedly a boobless game) 10 years ago?

Giant Bombcast 12/01/2015

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