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I just like how everyone is nerdraging about how bad Blizzard is, etc, and have completely overlooked possibly that you live in an era where offensive crap is a

I just like how everyone is nerdraging about how bad Blizzard is, etc, and have completely overlooked possibly that you live in an era where offensive crap is automatically blamed on the company. Think, if you will, what the hell Fox or CNN or someone would do with a SCII map that utilized suicide bombers or something. Good christ. Talk about giving the idiots that think that all of us gamers are off to kill hundreds of innocent people because we do it in a video game a carton-load of ammo. Then we'll have any good or "innovative" games completely yanked, and you'll bitch more about "losing" freedoms because some company didn't cover their ass. Swear it's like a bunch of bickering high school kids in here sometimes.

Marticus 16y ago
HN: If you don't agree with the collective, gtfo.
smallblacksun 16y ago
Well, the Zerg do have suicide units....
steveklabnik 16y ago
Seems like we need to get that conversation started, so that society can move forward, then.
crystalis 16y ago
I'm pretty sure your post was downvoted because of your immature tone and your downright ridiculous arguments - Starcraft II "innovative"? Ha! You're right though, that it is sometimes like high school, with the unsubstantiated arguments that are mostly just appeals or assertions, and the general lack of professionalism. Gillian Anderson couldn't do anything about Adobe Photoshop, and if the anti-videogame crusaders couldn't manage to do anything significant with Manhunt and Hot Coffee, custom content for SCII isn't going to be any worse. (For that matter, "GTA Raoul Moat" fetched Rockstar an apology from the Daily Mail. http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=256635 http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=256635)
- Marticus 16y ago
  Wasn't saying SCII was innnovative in specificity, merely that games that allow sandbox innovation would be more likely to face intense scrutiny as to what they release as any sort of content from any user or otherwise.

Marticus 16y ago

HN: If you don't agree with the collective, gtfo.

smallblacksun 16y ago

Well, the Zerg do have suicide units....

steveklabnik 16y ago

Seems like we need to get that conversation started, so that society can move forward, then.

crystalis 16y ago

I'm pretty sure your post was downvoted because of your immature tone and your downright ridiculous arguments - Starcraft II "innovative"? Ha! You're right though, that it is sometimes like high school, with the unsubstantiated arguments that are mostly just appeals or assertions, and the general lack of professionalism. Gillian Anderson couldn't do anything about Adobe Photoshop, and if the anti-videogame crusaders couldn't manage to do anything significant with Manhunt and Hot Coffee, custom content for SCII isn't going to be any worse. (For that matter, "GTA Raoul Moat" fetched Rockstar an apology from the Daily Mail. http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=256635 http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=256635)

Marticus 16y ago
Wasn't saying SCII was innnovative in specificity, merely that games that allow sandbox innovation would be more likely to face intense scrutiny as to what they release as any sort of content from any user or otherwise.