I can sort of see how there is some appeal to majority there, as with appeal to motive, but I’m not seeing the appeal to force. Either way my second paragraph was meant more as a snarky retort rather than some form of actual rebuttal. Basically it was a “sorry we don’t all have the same tastes as you” sort of thing.
I’m not sure how pointing out facts counts as appeal to authority? There is no rise in violence correlating with video game popularity (in fact we are now less violent as video games have become more popular). If it really matters to you let me know and I will find the appropriate links to back my statements up.
I’ll be honest I have no idea what this is (even with google). 
Maybe? I’m really not sure. From a business perspective it is a smart move to ride the controversy to more sales.
No offense taken. 
As I said above from a business perspective it is a smart move to ride the controversy to more sales. If I may ask, what exactly should the developers should have done in this case to avoid being morally bankrupt in your eyes?
Cheeky. 
I don’t own the game, it’s just not my type of game (by type I mean top down, I can’t be bothered with those style of games). I’ll agree the gameplay is relatively shallow in complexity but I see nothing wrong with it. To me it seems like a game you just play for the fun of it whenever you need to kill some time (pun fully intended).
To each their own.
The main point of my post was who are you to tell people what they should and shouldn’t like and what gives you the right to judge them and think of yourself as superior simply because they like something you don’t “approve” of. That said, the part of my post in quotes that you’re responding to here was about studies proving video games don’t cause violence, so I don’t quite see how that is childish or selfish. With regards to “the same garbage gamers keep regurgitating whenever someone dares to question their favorite past time activity” it’s more so defending my/our hobby from those who would condemn it an imagined high ground when really they are just ignorant to what they are talking about.
Raising children is the onus of the parents and to some extent teachers and the like. It is not the responsibility of game devs to ensure children can’t play whatever games they make, it’s on the parents to make sure the things they buy for their children are age appropriate. Devs are free to make whatever they want and have it rated so parents can make an informed decision as to if their child is allowed to play the game.
I will agree with you completely here, however it is still not on game developers to ensure their mature-content-filled game isn’t played by kids.
I can understand not wanting to respond, I was pretty confrontational with how I wrote that post. For the record I enjoy a good discussion with varying viewpoints (so long as participants are able to listen to reason, myself included in that). My main reason for defending the game, if you’re interested, is that I think every game should be allowed to be made. I may not agree with or like the games, but let devs make whatever they want, and if people want to buy it, let them do so.
No, I just haven’t posted here enough to know what is going to be considered as unacceptable (I never even thought I’d be having the sort of conversation we’re having right now on this site, so I wasn’t really expecting to deal with any form of confrontation lol) and I wanted to make sure I hadn’t crossed any lines.
You too.