Good nannies appalled by "Bad Nanny" |
When your video game is all about the evils that will land you in hell,
expect controversies and uproar left and right. This is true for
Electronic Arts' video game interpretation of the Divine Comedy, Dante's Inferno (PS3, PSP, Xbox 360). Their latest predicament involves a nanny group not being so happy about the game's "Bad Nanny" achievement.The nanny group, the International Nanny Association, voiced its outrage for the said achievement, saying it was “created out of poor taste and bad judgment.” "Bad Nanny" is earned by killing “a yet undetermined number of unbaptized infants."
They go on:
INA is opposed to video games that promote and encourage players to "kill" babies, even in fantasy play. It is our opinion that this type of play may promote violence towards children. The name of the trophy or achievement, "Bad Nanny," is offensive to our association in that we strive to promote and educate the public regarding the selfless work nannies do to support families by providing quality in-home child care."
The group has contacted the ESRB for their concerns, and the rating authority replied:
Â…it should be understood that our job is not to censor potentially tasteless or objectionable content nor dictate to publishers what type of content they may include in their games. ESRBÂ’s role is to objectively evaluate a gameÂ’s content and assign age and content ratings that will be helpful in allowing consumers to make informed choices.
An achievement for slaughtering babies? Come on, EA. Those are likely hell babies bent on toothlessly chewing you to death and everything, and I can understand dispatching a few to get them out of the way, but to actually put a bounty on their heads? That's a little too weird for this gamer.
EA already got out of this one:
Via GamePolitics
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Qj, -1 for fran drecsher picture on preview article
After that fake religious protest at E3 i just can't help thinking EA just payed these to protest, this probably is genuine but they just don't realise their complaining just helps sell more games.
remember drakengard? giant evil babies ring any bells? not the first game to have baby killing; get a life nannies...
And yet another group of morons come to light. Hey INA, are you run by Jack Thompson? They seriously need to shoot these *****ers.
ugh.
lemme kill ma babies in peace.
start handing out guns.
I seriously can't give a flying fu** any more about some stupid group running their mouth about sh**.
Unless EA is sacrificing babies at their studios for promotion in the name of nannies everywhere, STFU.
they should go ahead and recall all the copies of Luigi's Mansion, too. Don't I remember a scene of Luigi fighting a baby ghost? Damn you, Nintendo. lol. The people that are shallow enough to think that anything in a game dictates real life scare me, not the achievements or trophies.
Fran Drescher PWNZ!
Would they rather me kill real babies? They are rather annoying. Don't they see that this shall let me get out my prejudice against babies once and for all without harming any real babies? GF nannies.
The achievement says "Bad Nanny." So that means if you get the achievement, you're NOT doing what a real nanny obviously does. How does that give the "International Nanny Association" a bad rep?
I kinda see their moral***** views on baby killing, but nobody should be able to dictate what I do in a fake virtual world. Seriously, it's NOT REAL LIFE. I think these watch groups tend to not realize that more than the people who actually play the games.
I think I know the difference between fake evil Hell babies and real cute babies. I don't need a group off snobs tell me what kind of entertainment I can and can't have. If I want to kill me some fake Hell babies in an epic story of good and evil, then so be it. What's next?
I didn't hear anyone complaining about the baby-stomping that took place in Dead Space.
Warning: EA doesn't like babies.
respect other people's profession.. thats what they wanted.. this is really an offensive move by EA, at least change the name of the achievement so they can stfu..
It's not a profession, its a group of hate mongers that have nothing better to do then protest everything thats not directly related to church.
a nanny is a job for people with 0 job skills.
You rawk dude, that made me lol quite a bit.