Take-Two’s Karl Slatoff, who’s President of the parent company of Grand Theft Auto V‘s Rockstar Games, has spoken out against those who petitioned Target and K-Mart to remove the game from store shelves in Australia.
“It’s one thing for someone to not want to buy a piece of content, which is completely understandable,” Slatoff said in a conversation with GamesIndustry.biz. “And that’s really the solution. If you don’t like it and it’s offensive to you, then you don’t buy it. But for a person or a group of people to try to make that decision for millions of people… We have 34 million people who bought Grand Theft Auto, and if these folks had their way, none of those people would be able to buy Grand Theft Auto.
“And that really just flies in the face of everything that free society is based on. It’s the freedom of expression, and to try to squelch that is a dangerous and slippery slope to go down. So it’s really more disappointing for us in that regard than it is in the context of our business. Our business is going to be completely unaffected by this; it doesn’t make a difference to us. At the end of the day though, it’s not something you want because it’s a poor leadership decision.”
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