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Geek Culture / Man stabbed and robbed in London of Grand Theft Auto game

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Nickydude
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Posted: 17th Sep 2013 17:15
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Quote: "A man was hit with a brick and stabbed before being robbed of the much awaited Grand Theft Auto V video game in north London. The 23-year-old was returning home from shopping when he was attacked in Colindale at 01:20 BST, police said."


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-24127999



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Posted: 17th Sep 2013 17:20
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Posted: 17th Sep 2013 17:21
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Quote: "The victim, who is in a stable condition in hospital, was also robbed of a watch and a mobile."

Just as I thought. People get mugged in London all the time, but if it involves a video game then it's suddenly the game's fault? This is, yet again, despicable sensationalism by the media.


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Posted: 17th Sep 2013 17:26
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Quote: "Just as I thought. People get mugged in London all the time, but if it involves a video game then it's suddenly the game's fault? This is, yet again, despicable sensationalism by the media."

Agreed. It's you can't blame the game if the person who robbed him hasn't even played it yet

He was robbed because he had something someone wanted. If the game caused this kind of thing to happen then crime rates would go through the roof overnight, right? How many millions of copies have sold already?

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Posted: 17th Sep 2013 17:31
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It's like the last COD game, someone tried to rob a guy at gunpoint outside Walmart.

It's £40 that you can take to practically anyone and sell for £20-30 - a videogame is an easy sale, if the tabloids and blowhards don't understand that, then they don't deserve our attention... if they did in the first place.

I just feel bad for the guy who got robbed.

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Posted: 17th Sep 2013 17:32 Edited at: 17th Sep 2013 17:40
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Quote: "Experts believe Rockstar Games could sell 25 million copies, generating £1bn during its first year on sale."


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Quote: "in north London"


Typical north Londoner; Trust that to happen here. Was it necessary to through a brick at the person, and to also stab the person? My word, what waste-person. At least the gamer didn't die, but the trauma and regret...

There must of been a organized ring of GTA5 dealers.

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Posted: 17th Sep 2013 17:41
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Quote: "It's £40 that you can take to practically anyone and sell for £20-30 - a videogame is an easy sale, if the tabloids and blowhards don't understand that, then they don't deserve our attention... if they did in the first place."

Exactly, games are commodities like anything else. I think it's slightly more likely that the mugger was a junkie who has a habit to feed, I doubt he rushed home to fire up his console!


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Posted: 17th Sep 2013 17:48
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Quote: "My word, what waste-person"


I know right, a true gamer would simply have drove him over with a car. What a noob.


No, sorry - that was distasteful, I absolutly agree that this "games make people violent" assumptions needs to stop. ASAP!



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Posted: 17th Sep 2013 19:24 Edited at: 17th Sep 2013 19:25
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If should really say he was hit by a brick, stabbed, and then robbed of his watch, mobile phone, and a video game he was carrying at the time. But that doesn't make for a very exciting headline I guess...
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Posted: 17th Sep 2013 19:42
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In the year 2023, if the media still exists....

"Grand Theft Auto V related Violence Continues!

A man who was rumored to have once played Grand Theft Auto V was brutally beaten and robbed today as he left a local department store where the game was sold ten years ago."

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Posted: 17th Sep 2013 23:34
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I know what is coming next....

legalise piracy, then nobody needs to suffer wanton attacks on the street.



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Posted: 17th Sep 2013 23:44 Edited at: 17th Sep 2013 23:44
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Quote: "legalise piracy, then nobody needs to suffer wanton attacks on the street."

Maybe the thug was hired by Valve to encourage us to buy games off Steam...


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Posted: 18th Sep 2013 00:56
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My KGB opinion is that it is fake accident and hidden promotion.

Hint: a person who has Xbox can't buy a single exclusive game that was announced long ago? ORLY?

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Posted: 18th Sep 2013 01:53 Edited at: 18th Sep 2013 01:55
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The strange thing about this is that the guy got robbed carrying a game about robbery. But I agree with most of you, it's just the media getting back on this stupid non-connection, aka coincidence. After all it is not that unlikely to get robbed in the middle of the night, right?

Sometimes I wonder if they would make the same assumption if a guy who played Tetris or something else with no violence at some point goes nuts (or gets robbed, man now the victims are the culprits just for liking games).

Maybe we should all sit together, create some nice fluffy-looking game for young kids and give it a name that sounds like it had something to do with violence just for the sake of the argument.

Reporter: Police have found the video game "Super-Killer Monster Game" at the home of the newest homicidal maniac.
TGCuser: You do know you are claiming that a game about teddy bears cuddling caused this guy's killing spree?

Anyway, I hope the victim in this case gets well fast.

Edit: Just realized this idea sounds a lot like Teletubbies. So we might trigger a maniac even with this.


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Posted: 18th Sep 2013 02:45
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The media knows nothing about video games, and absolutely nothing about gamers. They see this as an opportunity, but we all see it as a reflection of their ignorance.

I am sure if GTA5 was not in that plastic bag, it would not have been a major story.

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Posted: 18th Sep 2013 03:11
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Quote: "The media knows nothing about video games, and absolutely nothing about gamers. They see this as an opportunity, but we all see it as a reflection of their ignorance."

I don't think they really are all that ignorant, I think they know exactly what they are doing and that what they say is complete rubbish. They are only writing this stuff to sell papers and increase their viewer ratings. They are fuelling the ignorant opinions of the public because people want to have their views supported, they are waiting for the next "video-game murder" "muslim terrorist" or "government conspiracy", and the media is all too happy to serve it up to them, whether it's real or not.


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That is spot on true and one of the main reasons I don't listen to the media (other reason being I'm too lazy to migrate from my laptop to the TV).

And it makes perfect sense; the media intentionally scares people, appalls people, and stirs up controversy to get more viewers. More viewers = more money for them, so they do it.

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Posted: 18th Sep 2013 15:34
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Quote: "It's £40 that you can take to practically anyone and sell for £20-30 - a videogame is an easy sale, if the tabloids and blowhards don't understand that, then they don't deserve our attention... if they did in the first place."


And yet people think DRM is bad for you... if it were the game to blame, then this is a good sign for DRM... I am not against it nor for it...

Quote: "I just feel bad for the guy who got robbed."


Me too.... if this is even a real report, then I hope the guy is doing well and recovers well, and that RockStar gives him a free copy like Sony did with that Malaysian? guy who was mugged in London after having his jaw broken during those riots? they gave him a free new PSVITA I think it was...

It makes for a simply a circumstance that he had bought GTA V that night...

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Quote: "And yet people think DRM is bad for you... if it were the game to blame, then this is a good sign for DRM... I am not against it nor for it..."

What does this have to do with DRM?


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Quote: "Three teenagers have been arrested after a Grand Theft Auto V fan was stabbed and robbed of the game in north London.

Police said two boys aged 15 and 16 and an 18-year-old man were arrested on suspicion of robbery in Colindale area.

The 23-year-old victim was returning home from buying the game when he was attacked in Princes Avenue, Colindale, in the early hours of Tuesday.

The injured man is still in hospital recovering from his injuries.

He was hit with a brick before being stabbed and robbed, police said.

A mobile phone and a watch were also stolen from him in addition to the game, which was officially launched in the UK after midnight on Tuesday."

Don't hear anyone blaming the game yet. Seems to me it just gets more media attention if it has "GTA5" in the title. People get stabbed every day and have watches & mobile phones taken, if this guy hadn't just bought GTA5 we wouldn't have even heard about it. That's the really sad part.

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Posted: 18th Sep 2013 18:08 Edited at: 18th Sep 2013 18:09
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Quote: "What does this have to do with DRM? "


If it were intentional that it was because of the game, say he was followed, DRM would use this as a plus, it is all speculation ^^ and not serious at all ^^

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if this guy hadn't just bought GTA5 we wouldn't have even heard about it. That's the really sad part.
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Truth of it all...

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Another article on the matter, from a corny source... http://megagames.com/news/british-press-keeps-blaming-games-everything

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Posted: 18th Sep 2013 20:45
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Quote: "because people want to have their views supported"


Many people want to have their views fed to them. It's quicker and easier than taking the time to form their own.

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Posted: 18th Sep 2013 22:01
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Quote: "If it were intentional that it was because of the game, say he was followed, DRM would use this as a plus, it is all speculation ^^ and not serious at all ^^"

I know you're not being serious but I still don't see how DRM would do anything.


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Quote: "I know you're not being serious but I still don't see how DRM would do anything."


Then there is no need to explain it further

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Posted: 18th Sep 2013 23:26 Edited at: 18th Sep 2013 23:27
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From MrV's link:
Quote: "The fact that [Call of Duty] is the most popular computer game on the market should make us all shudder, and pray that the violence on the screen doesn’t bleed into Britain’s streets."

This is dripping with sensationalism. The writer is practically demanding that we be outraged and horrified by video games or else our morality is somehow questionable. I find it so nauseatingly over-dramatised that I can't help picturing the writer raising a frilly cuff to his forehead and swooning as he delivers his putrid rhetoric.


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