Hot Coffee

Rockstar have settled the class action suit they were facing over the Hot Coffee mod. The result is that if you can prove you bought the game before July 20th 2005, Rockstar owes you US$35 or a new copy of the game. Rockstar and Take-Two estimates that this will cost them $1.025 million. Interestingly, they believe that had they kept going they could have won the trial, as Ben Feder, Chief Executive Officer of Take-Two said:

“If the case had continued, we believe the court would have agreed that Take-Two was not liable for consumers acting independently to modify their games with third-party hardware and software to access normally inaccessible content. Nonetheless, we believe it is in the best interest of the Company to avoid protracted and costly litigation to prove our case and to finally put this matter behind us.”

Reminds me of a spoiled child, but what’s a few hundred thousand in legal fees to a million in payouts? Yep, makes absolutely no sense.

via Destructoid