The devs rode the controversy train and got way higher sales than they ever would have had the press not lost their minds over the game. Pretty smart if you ask me. Don’t know where you’re getting Nazi sympathizers from but I’m not touching that anyway.
Thanks for letting us peasants know just how low we are for not subscribing to your clearly superior tastes, because how dare anyone find any form of enjoyment in something deemed “unsavoury” by those with their imagined high ground.
Time and time again—study after study—it has been shown there is no link between violent games and violence in the real world (same for sexism, for that matter), so why you’re worried about games corrupting the youth I can’t understand. As has been said before in this thread, if you can’t distinguish between fantasy and reality, you need professional help. An anecdotal piece of evidence: When I was young I played all sorts of violent and vulgar games (CoD, Conker’s Bad Furday, Wolfenstein, to name a few) and yet I’m not violent—quite the opposite actually, I try to avoid all forms of violence—or some horrible person. I knew video games were just that, games . I knew they weren’t real and that the things you did in them weren’t something you do in the real world. Kids aren’t complete sponges, they know the difference between make believe and real life.
Oh and, seeing as this game is rated AO, the responsibility is on the parents who buy M+ rated games for their kids, not everyone else.
For the mods, if any part of this post is seen as too confrontational I apologize and will understand if it’s removed (referring to the peasant bit), but I felt I needed to reply to this.
You’re second paragraph is an Appeal to majority and an Appeal to force. With some Appeal to Motive. Plus a little bandwagon affect sprinkled on top. (Though agit’s post if full of it to. Also, can I say that there is some Universal Acceptance Syndrome in here?)
You’re third paragraph is an Appeal to authority. Also the timeless ‘Perils of Pauline’ Fallacy makes an appearance. (And can I get away with saying that the first paragraph has a little Appeal to Novelty in it?)
EDIT: If I offended anyone. Please tell me.