GTA: San Andreas' developer has set up a website detailing the compensation one can expect to receive. The more detailed proof you have, the better your cash reward.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas First Edition Disc gets you a replacement disc. All other kinds of proof:
Detailed Store Receipt Cash payment up to $35.00
General Credit Card Statement or Check Cash payment up to $17.50
Disc/Purchase Details Cash payment up to $10.00
No Disc/Purchase Details Cash payment up to $5.00
To give your word that you totally really did have the game click here.
GTA Settlement
Hot Coffee [Wikipedia]
Regardless of what content shipped with the game, if it's not accessible without modding the game, they should NOT be held responsible.
]]>If that. I assume the settlement has a provision that kicks the refunds to a charity if too many people respond.
]]>Good, $5. Perhaps I'll use it to unlock the "Stale Coffee" mod wherein I can go to church to confess all my crimes, since moral substance is obviously the point of the GTA series. /sarcasm
Honestly, not to approve of this ingame behavior, but the consumer should not blindly accept that the game will be morally perfect. Did I run crying to my mum after visiting the House of Earthly Delights in Suran in ESIII? Heck no; I just 'cleansed' the place and walked away. Parents, research games before you buy them for your dumbass children. Caveat Emptor.
]]>@Benstein: Yeah, I can tell you were honestly offended.
Per the settlement agreement, if claims don't add up to $1.025M (or some such), RockStar will donate the balance to charity.
I'd rather the charity, or even RockStar keep the money, if I have to lie on 3 of the 4 questions.
]]>What if you got a version without 'Hot Coffee'? I did not like this game as much a previous incarnations and the act of unlocking the Hot Coffee is the only thing that made it interesting.
For all of you who got a version WITHOUT this mod I emplore you to join together and sue them class action style since you bought the game thinking you were going to get some hot sex action and all you really got was the same thing as in the previous GTAs.
]]>Well, not Animal Crossing. You've gotta draw the line somewhere.
]]>Yeah, it didn't bother me.
Fuck Congress & Jack Thompson.
]]>i hate censorship. you can watch a movie where a bad guy kills cops, rape, steal, etc, and gets away with it, but heaven forbid you put it in a video game.
]]># Were offended and upset by the ability of consumers to use third party software and/or hardware to modify and alter the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas First Edition Disc to display the Hot Coffee content;
# Would not have bought the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas First Edition Disc had you known that consumers could modify and alter the game content; and
# Upon learning the game could be modified and altered, would have returned it to the place of purchase for a refund if you thought this was possible.
With these requirements, I will be shocked if even one person legitimately qualifies for the payout.
]]>I'm gonna spend mine on hookers to help soothe my moral outrage!
wait....
]]>people are utterly unoffended by the language and violence, but heaven forbid there's a mod to unlock hideous polygonal sexual content. ffs. class action lawsuits for everyone!
]]>this was on their sister site Kotaku yesterday
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