Female Gamer "Sexually Assaulted" While Playing PS3

[CakeDragon]

Oh come on, seriously?
Home isn't Home without being harrassed/danced at/interrogated.
Fortunately I learnt the very same lesson a long time ago and haven't used Home since...
That's Sony's heart in the wrong place.

 

[chenry]

Griefing. Look it up.

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

It's in

I disagree with this. Your avatar is a digital extension of yourself to be sure but we cant start confering human emotions and capabilities on them, your avatar is no more capable of sexual assault in say Home than he is of murder in an FPS. Griefing has been around for aslong as multiplayer and so long as people can have anonymity and interaction your going to get assholes. So somebody followed her around and made a crouch gesture, to call it sexual assault to me cheapens the term and is an insult to women who have been sexually assaulted. Imagine this woman showed up at a support meeting and claimed there she had been sexually assaulted the people would be disgusted.

As I understand it, it's the room mate who called it assault. I wonder how you all would have reacted had he said 'harassment' rather than 'assault'?

If he'd just called it harassment I'd still say, "It's called griefing, woman. Welcome to the internet. Develop a thicker skin and ignore him or log off". There's tons of worse things going on in Halo games and such, so I personally don't think she or her over-sensitive roomie have a leg to stand on.

 

[Skooterz]

An Australian newspaper picked up the story today and opined that just because such attacks occurred in a game, that doesn't mean that they aren't real.

Yeah, it kinda does. Its annoying, but its hardly emotionally damaging. It's probably some 12 year old kid who just discovered an interest in the female population, and who spends far too much time on the internet.

 

[LWS666]

when people do htat ignore them, or move near a more attractive avatar and they'll follow them.

 

[mikecoulter]

She could have just gone elsewhere, then quick travelled back and he wouldn't know where she went...

 

[Sovvolf]

While were doing this whole attention seeking thing I'd like to add my own to the list. I'm going to take infinity ward to court for the assaults, murders and rapes that have happened to me during playing the online mode on Call of Duty MW2.

 

[ryukage_sama]

Harassment, maybe; Assault not even close.

If a man followed her around in real life and was constantly crouching down with his face near her but, that still wouldn't qualify as assault. Assault must include some kind of physical contact. She should complain about the user to Sony, and maybe stop using Home, an application totally unnecessary to using the primary features of a PS3.

Don't make a mountain out of a mole hill.

 

[Kurokasumi]

I rarely post on the escapist... but this one time this is so stupid I need to say something.
That's what the POWER BUTTON IS FOR.

Guess I should've made a news article all those times I got teabagged in modern warfare 2, characters using the 'lie down' emote on me in MMO's when they beat me in a duel, and when I got PM's on forum sites asking to cyber.

Christ sake grow up and try to be a big girl and handle it like an adult rather then crying for attention?

 

[stonethered]

[HEADING=1]NOT THE CROUCH EMOTE![/HEADING]

Seriously, this isn't sexual assault. This is some douchebag being an idiot and thinking that he's funny.

Agreed.

I give it a week tops before Attkinson leaps on this one. This sort of incident is the sort of thing is right up his alley.

 

[Normalgamer]

God I hope they never play anything on xbox live, what's next?
Australian man and woman are now sueing Halo 3 for promoting Necrophilia and sexual acts.

 

[Caliostro]

I say, I'd like compensation for all the times I've been murdered in-game please. I hear it's the sort of thing people in real life go to jail for.


... Come to think of it, I've committed regular mass slaughters, so... I'm getting the chair I guess.

 

[1gremlyn1]

Yes, its annoying, but it's not sexual assault.

 

[Knight of Cydonia]

I wish people would stop attacking the game industry for every little thing that happens to do with them, but this is just....

 

[Sixties Spidey]

lolwut? In HOME of all the fucking services!

 

[Twilight_guy]

Sorry, female gamers are just going to have to learn with stupid juvenile boys just like the rest of us gamers. Trying to remove the juvenile pranksters would remove more business then that of the offended female gamers. Sony will say "its bad" and then promptly do something in an attempt to appease her that will go nowhere and forget about the whole thing.

 

[Cmwissy]

The Female player then went to the Virtual shower and cleaned herself furiously for two hours whilst chanting 'Must be clean, Must be clean.'


The virtual female then contemplated suicide for an hour over the shock of the assault.

 

[Whytewulf]

Wow if everything that happened to me on-line had a real life consequence.. YIKES.. ok if I everything I did on-line had a rea life consequence.. YIKES!

Can't they simply add a report feature so repeated abusers get a ban, just like on forums. DER, not hard!

 

[Lono Shrugged]

I wonder what an actual sexual assault victim would say to all this?

 

[IckleMissMayhem]

Why is Australia still allowed to have opinion on things?

Heh.

Wait til Dickhead Atkinson hears about this... He'll probably try to ban all multiplayer, in case anyone gets cyber-raped. Goodbye Aussies!