Says she's "seen episodes of Lost that are more sexually explicit".
After slamming EA and BioWare's Mass Effect on Fox News because of apparent pornographic content, Author Cooper Lawrence has made a public apology for her comments.
"I recognise that I misspoke," Lawrence told the New York Times. "I really regret saying that, and now that I've seen the game and seen the sex scenes it's kind of a joke.
Advertisement"Before the show I had asked somebody about what they had heard, and they had said it's like pornography. But it's not like pornography. I've seen episodes of Lost that are more sexually explicit," confessed the author.
News of Lawrence's criticism of the game spread like wildfire on the internet and angry Mass Effect fans quickly took action; her book, The Cult of Perfection: Making Peace With Your Inner Overachiever, received over 400 one star ratings on Amazon.
wyp100 wrote at 16:38 on 28 January 2008
Damage limitation anyone?
Bloodstorm wrote at 16:54 on 28 January 2008
LOL, i like how everyone took it out on her book at amazon.
People power at work.
FantasyMeister wrote at 21:18 on 28 January 2008
I was watching the original Fox discussion on YouTube the other night, it was quite painful to watch as a videogamer because you had the host and 'expert' discussing a game which neither of them had played and destroying their own credibility in the process. Kudos to Cooper Lawrence for retracting her comments, wonder if Fox will run a segment on it. Doubtful.
The host did raise an interesting point though: When she was researching the game in the internet she was presented with a barrier when she wanted to watch some of the age-restricted clips i.e. all she had to do was input her date of birth to watch them, there was no real control over the content.
The only time these barriers are useful is if a child is viewing a website with parental supervision - the parent sees the age restriction warning and can then step in. In today's society these barriers seem a little pointless as I don't know many parents that supervise their children constantly when they're browsing the internet.
Another interesting view raised on various discussion boards was that one possible reason more and more anti-videogame segments are cropping up on television is that television networks are starting to feel seriously threatened by the amount of viewers being drawn away to videogames rather than watching their shows. That might be overly cynical, but then again, who knows? There might be an agenda.