After the recent success of Jack Thompson and other advocates forcing an “Adults Only� rating on Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas due to a highly controversial “Hot Coffee� modification, Jack Thompson has decided to set his crosshairs on a new title, The Sims 2 from Electronic Arts. Jack Thompson is attempting to get EA to pull The Sims 2 off store shelves due to what he believes is even worse than the “Hot Coffee� mod for GTA: San Andreas.
While EA has gone to great lengths to insure that The Sims 2 is safe for teenagers to play, including “blurring outâ€? the nudity on naked Sims and by choosing to not show alcohol and similar items in its recent University expansion, Jack Thompson insists that EA is “cooperating, gleefully, with the mod community to turn Sims 2 into a porn offering.” This attack is the result of mods which can be readily downloaded from various websites which will remove the blurring on nude Sims.
EA’s has countered this recent controversy by saying, “This is nonsense. We’ve reviewed 100 percent of the content. There is no content inappropriate for a teen audience. Players never see a nude sim. If someone with an extreme amount of expertise and time were to remove the pixels, they would see that the sims have no genitals. They appear like Ken and Barbie.” Indeed, once the blurring has been removed, all that can be found underneath are mannequin like models which contain no unwanted body parts whatsoever.
This, however, is not enough for Jack Thompson who plans on moving further with his case against The Sims 2. In reference to the blurring, he has stated, “”Electronic Arts has done nothing about (the blurring removing modification).” Stay tuned for more developments on Jack Thompson’s cases against gamers everywhere.