EA kills 'Thrill Kill' game before release

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Ethics and EA . . .

. . . now THERE'S an oxymoron if ever there was one. While this "Thrill Kill" sounds like a pretty outrageous and maybe even disgusting game, hey--bring it on, man! But absolutely make sure it's marketed (retailers: read that as both promoted AND sold--yeah, I know the retail biz sucks but, well, TOO BAD!) to its intended audience: the semi-quasi-adults (much like myself) out there who are fascinated by such things.

I mean, really--look around you and look at everything going on. How grotesque and inappropriate could a simple video game be? I'll save you the political/philsophical/religious points that might be made if you'll do the same for me, but the least of our problems is a risque video game in a society that is more concerned whether a baseball pitcher (Roger Clemens) ever used steroids and lied about it than whether a president (G.W. Bush) lied about . . . well, you know, I can't think of anything he HASN'T lied about.

I also don't believe that EA isn't investigating some way to make money off of this "intellectual property" even if they don't release the game themselves. EA is about nothing if NOT making money, and that's fine--just don't BS me about EA growing either a conscience or anything resembling either ethics or a sense of humanity. Just do a search on their past labor practices. But they are SORELY in need of good press to try to offset both their past and present sins, and if they happen to find out something about the potential interest/marketability of THIS game in the process, well, that's just so much better for them, right? Nothing sells a game like controversy, and HERE THEY GO AGAIN.

Rockstar learned this early with the GTA 3 push over the years, and EA took notes at every turn. Rockstar seems to be moving on in a little more dignified manner without losing too much of their edge, but EA, while making some fantastic games over all the years they've been around, has never given anyone the impression they would turn down a dollar and do something opposite their nature simply because it was the "right thing to do."

Anyhow--anybody interested in betting whether a game that is eerily similar to this comes along from some indie game publisher under a different name? Right this way, folks . . .

Posted by: Charles Farley   Posted on: 03/13/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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