GTA V removed from Target stores in Australia

Daaryl · 04-12-2014 01:35AM #1

What a joke, It's only a game really, It's not like when you're done playing the game, You're gunna say i'm gunna give me girlfriend, wife a baiten...

Link of source : http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/games/gta-v-removed-from-target-stores-in-australia-30796438.html

Grand Theft Auto V, holder of seven Guinness world records and recently confirmed as breaking the UK's all-time software-sales record, has found itself removed from Target stores in Australia.

According to a media release from Target, the R-rated game has been removed due to customer feedback about the game's depiction of violence against women.

The release (seen in full here) does mention positive support for the game, but believes the decision to stop selling the game is in line with the majority of its customers.

Target will continue to sell other R-rated games.

Target General Manager Corporate Affairs Jim Cooper said, ""While these products often contain imagery that some customers find offensive, in the vast majority of cases, we believe they are appropriate products for us to sell to adult customers."

"However, in the case of GTA5, we have listened to the strong feedback from customers that this is not a product they want us to sell."

A campaign to remove GTA V from Target was started by a group of women survivors of violence. The petition found on change.org had over 41,000 supporters at time of writing.

Rockstar have yet to release a statement.

Cyber Ghost · 04-12-2014 01:36AM

Lol you'd swear it's only women that were singled out for violence in it.

In fact most of the violence is done to men!

Links234 · 04-12-2014 01:38AM

Australia have quite a history of video game censorship: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banned_video_games_in_Australia#Currently_banned.2Fcensored_video_games

kowloon · 04-12-2014 01:40AM

I'm surprised it's not banned entirely, don't Australia have some harsh censorship?

Edit: need to refresh threads before I post in them

. What Links said.

anonyanony · 04-12-2014 01:42AM

Daaryl wrote: »

What a joke, It's only a game really, It's not like when you're done playing the game, You're gunna say i'm gunna give me girlfriend, wife a baiten...

Grand Theft Auto V, holder of seven Guinness world records and recently confirmed as breaking the UK's all-time software-sales record, has found itself removed from Target stores in Australia.

According to a media release from Target, the R-rated game has been removed due to customer feedback about the game's depiction of violence against women.

The release (seen in full here) does mention positive support for the game, but believes the decision to stop selling the game is in line with the majority of its customers.

Target will continue to sell other R-rated games.

Target General Manager Corporate Affairs Jim Cooper said, ""While these products often contain imagery that some customers find offensive, in the vast majority of cases, we believe they are appropriate products for us to sell to adult customers."

"However, in the case of GTA5, we have listened to the strong feedback from customers that this is not a product they want us to sell."

A campaign to remove GTA V from Target was started by a group of women survivors of violence. The petition found on change.org had over 41,000 supporters at time of writing.

Rockstar have yet to release a statement.

Seems odd as the game was R Rated and games don't hurt real people but this will hurt Targets sales coming up to the most profitable time of the retail sectors year.

They are kinda shooting themselves in the foot, but Rockstar will be happy this will bring them loads of sales like hot coffee did with GTA:SA

Daaryl · 04-12-2014 01:43AM

What i don't understand is the game is out over a year on xbox 360 and ps3, So why did they not do the petition back then and why now?

Xios · 04-12-2014 01:43AM

My 4 year niece plays this game. I let her run around and drive around the city and wilderness. She's quite fond of that aspect.

shruikan2553 · 04-12-2014 01:45AM

Aus only got an 18+ rating recently.

The easiest thing to do is just not buy it, its what I do when a shop sells something I dont want, but then I suppose that is too easy.

Doesnt a man get raped and toutured in the game?

DEFTLEFTHAND · 04-12-2014 01:45AM

Weird how Target would capitulate to this mob of crazies. Do they think they'll get good PR out of it or what?

martyos121 · 04-12-2014 01:47AM

Oh Jesus, the feminazis are out in force again I see.....:rolleyes:

lertsnim · 04-12-2014 01:47AM

Lots of free publicity for GTA 5

anonyanony · 04-12-2014 01:50AM

Daaryl wrote: »

What i don't understand is the game is out over a year on xbox 360 and ps3, So why did they not do the petition back then and why now?

They are not happy you can have first person sex with a hooker in the ps4 and x1 version.

castletownman · 04-12-2014 01:51AM

It depends on how people play the game itself as to whether it is glorifying domestic violence or whatever.

I mean I never hijack a car in it, never break a red light, and always pay the hookers in a prompt and generous manner. Don't see the fuss over it at all.

Daaryl · 04-12-2014 01:51AM

anonyanony wrote: »

They are not happy you can have first person sex with a hooker in the ps4 and x1 version.

You don't need to have sex with a hooker... There's alot more fun things to be doing in the game..

Xios · 04-12-2014 01:53AM

anonyanony · 04-12-2014 01:53AM

Daaryl wrote: »

You don't need to have sex with a hooker... There's alot more fun things to be doing in the game..

Just like you don't have to kill women in the game but won't stop the people that don't like games and want them censored and banned

The Diabolical Monocle · 04-12-2014 01:54AM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Weiadvertisingarget would capitulate to this mob of crazies. Do they think they'll get good PR out of it or what?

Theyre doing a mick oleary.
Free advertising.

Karl Stein · 04-12-2014 02:06AM

We shouldn't be too quick to condemn this. When I was a kid Pac-Man was very popular. Many of the kids who played Pac-Man ended up listening to repetitive music and swallowing pills.

My name is URL · 04-12-2014 02:22AM

God forbid a female character, child or animal should ever 'die' in a video game.

The alternative is obviously better. Leave them out of games altogether or only portray them in in the backgrounds of cutscenes...

'shhh now, men are speaking'

Duggy747 · 04-12-2014 02:42AM

Australia would ban itself if it could.

Tombi! · 04-12-2014 03:06AM

Well, it's just one company doing it.
I don't see a problem. If one company wants to to be idiots and lose sales, go for it. It'd be no different to Argos stop selling a game. I can buy it elsewhere.

Vincent Vega · 04-12-2014 03:28AM

Seeing the poll got me thinking...

What if this petition is just some elaborate ruse. a clever bit of trolling.

Perhaps published by and voted for by the members of a certain online community in order to showcase the utter insanity and faux outrage often spouted in the name of 'feminism' these days.

Cienciano · 04-12-2014 09:47AM

Daaryl wrote: »

What i don't understand is the game is out over a year on xbox 360 and ps3, So why did they not do the petition back then and why now?

Because they wanted to sell stack loads of the game and then take the moral high ground when the sales have died down

jacksie66 · 04-12-2014 09:51AM

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anonyanony · 04-12-2014 12:01PM

So the people that got this banned are now the modern day Jack Thompson, I know the likes of Anita and McIntosh have said they totally different then him and don't want to takeaway games but they just did what Thompson failed to do many a year ago.

In a way this might force devs to comment on the whole social justice backlash they been facing in recent years as I cannot see them stop making new GTA games.

EazyD · 04-12-2014 12:13PM

I remember couple of years ago when Manhunt was released by Rockstar and the very same thing happened in Aus and NZ. What a joke

anonyanony · 04-12-2014 12:15PM

EazyD wrote: »

I remember couple of years ago when Manhunt was released by Rockstar and the very same thing happened in Aus and NZ. What a joke

That was before the over 18 game rating in aus right, it's not like a kid can buy gta in target anyway

04-12-2014 12:15PM

Bitches be getting all mad down in OZ

VinLieger · 04-12-2014 12:54PM

Wheres all the concern for the vast amount of violence against male characters that get murdered, stabbed, kicked to death, shot, run over, thrown off cliffs, viciously tortured, blown up etc etc.... or is it only sexual violence against women that should be condemned publicly now?

anonyanony · 04-12-2014 12:56PM

VinLieger wrote: »

Wheres all the concern for the vast amount of violence against male characters that get murdered, stabbed, kicked to death, shot, run over, thrown off cliffs, viciously tortured, blown up etc etc.... or is it only sexual violence against women that should be condemned publicly now?

The ones that want to ban games only care about imaginary violence against binary that looks like women.

Gbear · 04-12-2014 12:57PM

Daaryl wrote: »

What i don't understand is the game is out over a year on xbox 360 and ps3, So why did they not do the petition back then and why now?

Presumably so they could rake in the cash first and act like supercilious cunts afterwards.

GTA V removed from Target stores in Australia

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