7 Rockstar Controversy You Didn't Know

GAMEFINITY.ID, Jakarta – Most industrial industries whose consumers usually come from all over the world, most companies try to avoid controversies, controversies that exist within the company so as not to be hated by anyone or certain groups but there is one game company that has always been fond of controversies, namely Rockstar Games.

Rockstar Games has realized that the controversies that do or deal with have more benefits than harm, because through these controversies Rockstar Games gets promotions indirectly or gets a lot of free publicity. It makes more people interested in the Rockstar game than with people who hate it, this is evident from the GTA V game which has become the biggest selling game of all time.

So here are 7 controversies that Rockstar Games has faced that you may not know about at all.

Controversy Screenshots of In-Game Violence Bully (Bully)

Rockstar currently intends to make an Action Adventure Open-World game with the theme about the lives of school students in America, the purpose of this game being made is only to parody in schools in America, which turns out to be a misunderstanding which eventually became a controversy. from bully released in 2005, the screenshot shows that Jimmy the main character from bully is kicking one of the students.

Just because this 1 screenshot has triggered anti-bullying activists in America, online bullying organization Darmalis Cornell said that the theme of bullying is not suitable for making a video game because the suffering of bullying victims should not be underestimated, not only that a peace-loving organization called Peaceoholics expressed his protest against Rockstars, one of which was to cancel this Bully game, although most of these organizations canceled their demands but the demands of this Bully game were still shocking.

Shirrako (Red Dead Redemption 2) Youtube Video Controversy

We certainly know that the world in Open-World games made by Rockstars is always described in as much detail as possible such as the situation in the real world and its social conditions, Red Dead Redemption is a wild west-themed game that has various social conditions that are appropriate in that era. but as a parody.

Shirako’s Youtube channel made a very funny video about various ways to kill feminist characters in the game Red Dead Redemption 2, Shirako’s first video was uploaded in October 2021 with the title Red Dead Redemption 2 – Beating Up Annoying Feminist in the video shows that he hit these feminist women but other videos show them being eaten by crocodiles, eaten by pigs, and run over by trains.

Even though it looks funny but there are some groups who don’t think it’s funny, at the beginning of November 2021 there was an article showing that Red Dead Redemption 2 teaches its players to kill feminist characters, popping up everywhere so Shirako’s channel was temporarily closed by Youtube.

From the articles that were made, many of them blamed Red Dead Redemption 2 and Shirako for making it seem as if Shirako killed feminists in the real world and made Red Dead Redemption 2 an anti-feminist game but after Shirako’s Youtube channel returned, Shirako continued the video how to kill these feminists.

GTA III Release Ban Controversy In Australia (GTA III)

The initial concept of the emergence of this GTA game always raises controversy but when the GTA III game was released where this game became a TRID game which made this game more problematic, the GTA game itself was often in trouble because of the violent content in the game. , although this game is an example of the freedom to do anything in the world of GTA instead of completing missions that bore us once in a while.

Even though with such a concept GTA III was still banned from Australia, it was caused by the age rating at the Australian censorship agency, OFLC, which was only up to 15 years at the time of the release of the GTA III game, finally violent violence against prostitutes was carried out in GTA III. which makes the Australian version of GTA III removed so that it can become a fifteen plus game.

The Mother Against Drunks Driver (GTA VI) Controversy

So the controversy arose because after Niko Bellic was drunk after drinking alcohol which had the effect of shaking the camera and Niko being difficult to control either by road or using a vehicle, this made an organization called MADD (Mother Against Drunks Driver) they do protested against Rockstar by asking them to stop selling GTA VI, they also asked the ESRB to change the age rating from Mature to Adult only.

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MADD is actually an organization that aims to stop traffic accidents caused by drunk drivers, they also say that drunk driving should not be made into a game and it’s not a joke after saying that Rockstars responded that GTA VI players I quite understand what the content means because Rockstar has given the context that if you drive while drunk, GTA VI indirectly makes people aware not to drive while drunk.

Mission By The Book (GTA V)

Until now this GTA game has always been in trouble starting from its mission missions to its violent content but in GTA V in the By The Book mission in that mission it has really terrible violent content, in this mission we will take turns playing as Trevor and also Michael who assigned by the FBI, in this mission Michael was assigned to shoot dead targets with a sniper while Trevor was assigned to interrogate Ferdinand to find out the characteristics of the next target.

In the introduction Trevor was able to choose several tools to torture Ferdinand until he got the information he needed, because the mission had a lot of articles/news telling about this problem but it was made excessively until a group called We Believe In A World Free From Torture protested. Against Rockstar, they also said that Rockstar had gone overboard in this mission, but this torture could be seen as a social fact that the government carried out such torture in order to obtain information.

Murder Controversy (Manhunt)

Rockstar always doesn’t care about the various controversies about the violent content of GTA games because they do it again and again but by making the violent content much darker than usual in the 2003 game Manhunt, this Manhunt game is a Stealth Action Horror game that shows how the way we kill the enemy in a brutal way, so that Manhunt has been banned from being released in many countries.

Although the ban on the release of this Manhunt game has a very big controversy when this game is associated with the murder case by Warrent Leblanc, this case occurred on February 26, 2004 when Warren Leblanc invited Stefan Pakeerah to meet him in the park in fact they were good friends until Warren let out knife and hammer and killed Stefan, from the information he got that Warren was crazy about the Manhunt game which made Stefan’s parents blame the game.

Hot Coffee Mod Controversy (GTA SA)

Even though youtube can’t explain what Mod Hot Coffee is but this is already quite popular throughout the world including in Indonesia, this Hot Coffee Mod is a mini game that is done when we do a side mission dating if we want to go into the house to drink coffee .

This mod is not a mod made by GTA players themselves but made by Rockstar himself who initially wanted to be included in the game but instead it was hidden without removing the cord, so when the PC version of GTA SA was released and finally unlocked by Modders named Golden Bird .

Even though there is a lot of sexual content in other games, but because these are interactive mini games, it makes this controversy big because in the ESRB the GTA SA game is given a mature rating even though if there is content like this the game will be given an Adult Only rating, other than that Hilary Clinton also held a press conference about Mod Hot Coffee in the GTA SA game, prompting the American Consumer Protection Agency (FTC) to investigate Rockstar on this matter.

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