Yes,justice prevails!It seems MITA finally realised its mistake
at the last minute and proceeded to right the wrongs...just when we
feared the imminent worst.
I hope this sends some strong signals to the various players of the
local gaming industry...
(1)local game developers,publishers,distributors should relax a bit
now,though of course they'll be even more wary of
developing/marketing games with copious amounts of violence...which
I feel is a good long-term catalyst in moving the FPS genre beyond
mindless blood-letting
(2)cybercafes/LAN shops should more strongly enforce age-limit
monitoring if they want to be ensured of long-term posterity
(3)parents should realise that running to the authorities crying
for help whenever they find themselves in a parenting crisis only
serves to diminish whatever's left of the respect in the eyes of
their children...they appear inept and inadequate in front of their
children when they resort to "playing it dirty",a vile trait the
young ones may pick up by example
(4)young gamers are of course not exempt from blame as
well...this'll serve as a lesson that immature and irresponsible
behaviour will be met with punishment of the same nature
(5)to BFC: like they say,a mistake is an incidental slip of the
intellect - best made only once and learnt from with grace...but a
deliberate act of plain stupidity is not even worthy of the status
accorded to a mistake...make no mistake about this(pun
intended),the banning of HL shouldn't be considered a mistake in
the first place,and neither should the lifting of the ban be
thought of as remedial action of sorts.Wise up first,conduct your
duties professionally,and if(naturally,hopefully not) you do bungle
up things in the future,we'll accept it as a real mistake and trust
you'll have the grace to learn from it...but until then,grow up
fast,this furious trend of all things knowledge-based could quickly
relegate you to ranks of obsolescence before you can ask "hmm,wait
a sec...will this fancy driving game ratchet up accident rates
along the PIE?"
Relieved local game developer,
EA-NYP Games Innovation Studio.
[This message has been edited by Melvin (edited 04 February
2000).]
