Game modder speaks up on modding

A game modder has written a piece on the recent GTA "Hot Coffee" controversy. It's a must-read and I hope that those folks in the "high places" who are against games just take time to understand the gaming technology before they start to label every mod-able game as "Adults Only".

The primary difference between the retail version of the game and that of the modded version is that the above content has simply been rearranged and intensified by the consumers. By using the logic that this content was illegally "hidden", one could just as easily claim that any R rated movie has covertly crossed the limits of decency because the end-user could very well pause their DVD player on a scene containing nudity, thus exceeding the length of such scenes by which the MPAA decides whether a film is to be classified as R or NC-17. The same could be said of even a PG-13 rated movie which contains brief nudity.

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