Bethesda Bends, Removes Fallout Ad Campaign

[modeps]

Not much more to say than that. They're citing the ESRB for the reason behind the ad removal. Shacknews has the story (http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/55594):

Censorship and Bethesda's Fallout 3 (PC, 360, PS3) are good friends, and the two just got a little closer: Bethesda has asked gaming websites including Shacknews to pull all trailers for the open-world RPG.

The request came from Bethesda marketing VP Pete Hines in an e-mail which is reproduced below. The e-mail is short on comment but says the request is "in connection with ESRB's advertising guidelines."

The move comes on the eve of Fallout 3's release, with thousands of retailers ready to start selling the game at midnight tonight, and follows a widely-reported public complaint regarding depictions of post-apocalyptic Washington DC in Fallout 3 ads.

Whatever.

[Chaos Machine]

good luck trying to censor the internet.

[MacD]

Abnd again, the vocal minority is genuflected to. Or, more accurately, one lone idiot gets to say what others should and should not see. Free speech in the US? Well, unless some crackpot objects, that is.

What a sad fucking state of affairs.

[Chaos Machine]

I bet the ESRB got a collective "fuck you" from nearly every gaming news website out there when they made that request.

[Steve_Erhardt]

Oh for fuck's sake already... the ESRB has value, I don't dispute that, but apparently what they don't have is common fucking perspective. Give me a break already ESRB, and wake the fuck up.

[Azriel77]

The ESRB should be destroyed and rebuilt from the ground up. However, I feel bethesda the biggest disappointment. They have no spine and while F3 will probably be a fun game to play, It is a failure as a fallout sequel because they did not put anything that might be controversial in the game series which was famed for the gritty realism and controversial elements! On top of that they are trying to say they are innovative and creative when all they did was create a MOD for their oblivion engine.

[hund_]

since every screen shot is destroyed dc would'nt they need to remove them also.

your all wrong this is a marketing ploy.

[DarkDaY]

Ah free America...how I love you,,, wait, Canada isn't much better...nm

[Johan]

:shakes head:

I have no words (yes...ironic, I suppose).

:shakes head:

[Shifter]

Wasn't the headline movie poster for Independence Day a huge shot of the White House being destroyed?

[Shifter]

I mean the Capital Building.

[Narradisal]

I mean the Capital Building.

yea, but that was in the early days of political correctness before every dumb fuck in the world figured out they could complain about something and get their jollies off watching big companies fold to minority pressure.

The sooner this shit stops, the better.

[HeartbreakRidge]

I remember from law school that the heckler's veto is wrong. Apparently I misunderstood!

[ElektroDragon]

Ah free America...how I love you,,, wait, Canada isn't much better...nm

Yeah you guys have a serious homeless problem too, Vancouver was like homeless city last weekend. It was shocking... entire masses of them roaming around downtown.

[Steve_Erhardt]

Ah free America...how I love you,,, wait, Canada isn't much better...nm
I dunno about that... Canada has the hands-down best strip joints I've ever been to. :)

[Syl]

I don't really see this as terribly big of a deal. The ads are being removed *AFTER* the game launches, meaning that they already did their job.