{"id":394,"date":"2007-11-01T22:45:51","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T21:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=394"},"modified":"2007-11-01T22:46:24","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T21:46:24","slug":"parody-challenged-rockstar-forgets-its-raison-detre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2007\/11\/01\/parody-challenged-rockstar-forgets-its-raison-detre\/","title":{"rendered":"Parody-challenged Rockstar forgets its Raison d&#8217;\u00eatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is some commotion between EA and Rockstar over the new Simpsons game, which was originally slated to include <a href=\"http:\/\/news.spong.com\/article\/12509?cb=273\">a level called Grand Theft Scratchy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/gta-scratchy.jpg\" alt=\"GTA scratchy\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Rockstar <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1up.com\/do\/newsStory?cId=3163846\">pressured <\/a>EA to remove Grand Theft Scratchy from the game, because, you know, &#8220;we need to protect our IP&#8221; or some such. Nobody really knows, except that Rockstar apparently feels that parody is not something you should have in games.<\/p>\n<p>Parody was supposed to be protected from this type of legal problems, apparently not.<\/p>\n<p>It would be redundant to describe Rockstar as hypocritical here, but certainly someone took a wrong turn somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Gamasutra has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/php-bin\/news_index.php?story=16026\">link collection on the story here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/gamepolitics.com\/2007\/10\/29\/rockstar-spazzed-out-like-little-babies-says-simpsons-producer\">Gamepolitics has some developer interviews<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is some commotion between EA and Rockstar over the new Simpsons game, which was originally slated to include a level called Grand Theft Scratchy. Apparently, Rockstar pressured EA to remove Grand Theft Scratchy from the game, because, you know, &#8220;we need to protect our IP&#8221; or some such. Nobody really knows, except that Rockstar &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2007\/11\/01\/parody-challenged-rockstar-forgets-its-raison-detre\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Parody-challenged Rockstar forgets its Raison d&#8217;\u00eatre&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}