Fox News attacks Mass Effect, EA not happy

TTR Dr Payne · 01-25-2008, 12:23 AM

Gametrailers.com - FOX NEWS on MASS EFFECT Sex...

Watch the, very amusing, Fox News segment on Mass Effect, and then read EA's responce to Fox News about what they said below.

Electronic Arts, likely sick of having their recently-acquired role-playing franchise Mass Effect dragged through the mud on national television, has requested that Fox News Channel correct their error-plagued segment on the game.
In the letter, which cites Kotaku, Jeff Brown, EA's vice president of communications, asks Teri VanHorn, producer of the Live Desk with Martha MacCallum, to clarify "serious errors" the channel made in their Mass Effect story.

* Your headline above the televised story read: "New videogame shows full digital nudity and sex."
* Fact: Mass Effect does not include explicit or frontal nudity. Love scenes in non-interactive sequences include side and profile shots - a vantage frequently used in many prime-time television shows. It's also worth noting that the game requires players to develop complex relationships before characters can become intimate and players can chose to avoid the love scenes altogether.

* FNC voice-over reporter says: "You'll see full digital nudity and the ability for players to engage in graphic sex."
* Fact: sex scenes in Mass Effect are not graphic. These scenes are very similar to sex sequences frequently seen on network television in prime time.

* FNC reporter says: "Critics say Mass Effect is being marketed to kids and teenagers."
* Fact: That is flat out false. Mass Effect and all related marketing has been reviewed by the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) and rated Mature - appropriate for players 17-years and older. ESRB routinely counsels retailers on requesting proof of age in selling M-rated titles and the system has been lauded by members of Congress and the Federal Trade Commission. In practical terms, the ratings work as well or better than those used for warning viewers about television content.

Player911 · 01-26-2008, 01:50 AM

This is basically a bunch of retards talking about a bunch of stuff they know nothing about.

I rented Mass Effect while I was out of town and while I thought the game was good, I was disappointed with the "sex scenes". I mean what about Leisure Suit Larry? That game has been out as long as I know it. But the fact is that this game shows nothing more then any TV show.

Basically these reporters saw an opportunity to make a buck, took everything out of context, and trying to argue false accusations as true. What else is new.

If I was EA, I would sue them because obviously this is complete bs. It is very damaging. I liked how they compared it to Playboy Magazines and how kids will come home and "play the game while dads not around". If these people knew anything about what their talking about they'd know that the first sex scene is HOURS into the game. I encountered it in the first city after 3 days of exploration. Plus it didn't show anything except a blue hand waving in the air.

Another thing is that if kids were "playing" it while "dads away", they would be erasing the main game. I don't think you can start multiple games at once.

Freaking stupid. I see more sex in Grey's Anatomy every week then in Mass Effect, come on. Ignorant reporters. They lost their creditability when the guy asked them if the reporter had ever played Mass Effect, "No but I'm an expert at talking shit about things I don't know".

TTR Dr Payne · 01-26-2008, 10:54 AM

lmao yea I know. It was brilliant how they had the guy from Spike TV on there aswell countering what they were saying, he was getting so dam pissed off at their stupidness

Tearo · 01-26-2008, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by TTR Dr Payne

lmao yea I know. It was brilliant how they had the guy from Spike TV on there aswell countering what they were saying, he was getting so dam pissed off at their stupidness

If I were him I would have been even more pissed..And that woman he was arguing with sounds the ANNOYING kind of people :"sorry I have to follow studies saying that adolescents are the ones who're playing video games"

ARGHHH!!!SHUT THE **** UP! *****!

TTR Dr Payne · 01-27-2008, 06:46 AM

and if she actually knew what she was talking about, shed know that the average gamer(at least on XBOX Live) is in their 30's.

paintba||er · 01-27-2008, 06:48 AM

LOL Thats probably because nobody that is under 18 gives their real age. As far as MicroShite knows I'm 27.

IllBashU · 01-27-2008, 10:16 AM

i put my real age...

btw i saw this before and who the **** gives a shit what fox says? they lost all there credit with giving there viewers false info...

YouTube - Mass Effect Sex Scene

http://www.thebitbag.com/2007/11/15/...ease-stand-up/

Tearo · 01-27-2008, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by IllBashU

i put my real age...

btw i saw this before and who the **** gives a shit what fox says? they lost all there credit with giving there viewers false info...

YouTube - Mass Effect Sex Scene

http://www.thebitbag.com/2007/11/15/...ease-stand-up/

ZOMG FULL DIGITAL NUDITY ZOMG!!!IT SHOULD BE BANNED!!!AHHHH!!EVIL VIDEO GAMES!!LETS CALL JACK TOHMPSON!AHH FULL DIGITAL NUDITY!!!

paintba||er · 01-27-2008, 07:53 PM

There are some that are a bit more revealing than that one.

Skip to 1:50

YouTube - Mass Effect Sex Scene: Serving under

It still isn't anything unseen on TV though...

IllBashU · 01-27-2008, 11:09 PM

^the one that you posted is the same as yours except its 2 girls...

did u check out the link?

edit, here is the video i linked to

Gametrailers.com - Mass Effect NSFW scene by crXss

paintba||er · 01-27-2008, 11:24 PM

Oh, I didn't see the link, I just watched the YouTube one...

Tearo · 01-28-2008, 06:36 AM

Still..This isn't full digital nudity..Lol god off war had B00BZ in it and no one attacked it..I think