Jack thompson takes on Halo 3 and Big B

Bill Gates
Microsoft Corporation
Redmond, Washington
Re: Halo 3
Dear Mr. Gates:

As you know, the Federal Trade Commission has repeatedly found that games rated "Mature" by the video game industry-captured Entertainment Software Rating Board are routinely sold to kids under the age of 17 despite the age rating. The most recent failure rate of the ratings on "Mature" games, according to the FTC, is 42%. The entire rating system is a fraud, and "broken," the latter description aptly provided by Senator Hillary Clinton.

As you also know, Lee Boyd Malvo trained on Microsoft's Halo to further enable him to become the remarkably efficient "DC Beltway Sniper." That was reported by NBC News at the time and was noted in Malvo's criminal trial.

You appeared on CBS' 60 Minutes II and rather revealing and usefully noted that "the cool thing about these games is that they transport you to a world you think is real." Precisely. Capcom has recently disclosed to investors that your video game industry's violent games, sold to children, pose a real hazard to the health of the industry. Right on.

The hyperviolent Microsoft Xbox 360 game Halo 3 is scheduled by your company for commercial release in September of this year. The Beta version that was released last week shows us all just how violent the game is and how inappropriate it is for play by anyone under 17, as the "Mature" rating it will surely receive indicates.

Here's the deal, Mr. Gates: Either Microsoft undertakes dramatic, real steps, through its marketing, wholesale, and retail operations to assure that Halo 3 is not sold, via the Internet and in stores, directly to anyone under 17, or I shall proceed to make sure that Microsoft is held to that standard by appropriate legal means. I have done that before successfully as to Best Buy, and I shall do so again as to Microsoft and all retailers of Halo 3.

Regards, Jack Thompson 

:lol: oh jackie, jackie, jackie. Thres one thing you need to learn in this life, you dont mess with Bill 'moneybags' Gates. This man has more money than god. I give him five seconds in the court room before Bills legal team squashes him.

Lol this guy needs to dieRossdaboss777

careful, he'll read that and interpret it as a threat to his life and call the FBI on Gamespot/CNet just like he did for Kotaku.

:lol:

i like how he calls halo 3 "hyperviolent"

please, its not nearly as violent as many m rated games

MS is already part of an organisation that is supposed to help parents understand the content a game has.

They launched it along side Viva pinata last year.

[QUOTE="Rossdaboss777"]Lol this guy needs to dieFlawlessSeasons

careful, he'll read that and interpret it as a threat to his life and call the FBI on Gamespot/CNet just like he did for Kotaku.

I think we need to stop jumping to conclusions and ask where the link is?  Where this info came from?  Otherwise,

I must dismiss it as BS. 

Does Jack Thompson not realize its impossible to "train" how to shoot a gun from playing a videogame? If this were true not only could we learn to shoot a gun but also learn to throw a football, drive a car and learn to use the force.Ghost_Warrior

Exactly. there are so many different things that effect the bullet while its going, it not simply point and it goes straight at the speed of light and hits what ever it was aimed at like it is in video games. 

Because when you shoot someone in real life they start beeping and glowing blue before finally catapulting in the air in a ridiculous rag-doll style. Jack Thompson is a fool.Mope01

I agree he is an idiot, especially IF, he wrote this letter, but what you just posted is even dumber, and you're just making

**** up now.  He never said anything about people beeping and glowing buddy.   

Wow just wow,

Where did you find this btw?

I doubt this is real.

Why would he attack Halo 3? Why not Splinter Cell: Conviction- its set  in DC. Thtad be an easy game to make an arguement with, and even easier to bring down (game has nothing to do with terroists) 

All right, my blood boiled when he was making punches on GTA, but now it's just personal.

But we have nothing to worry about, Jack Thompson is a scrawny guy in a boxing ring with the strongest man in the world. 

I'm still waiting for a source as to wear this information came from. A reputable source.  No "The Onion" or any crap like that.

Hell, look at the way it was written up, looks like some random guy just tossed it together, doesn't sound professional at all. 

I thought those ratings were just a strong suggestion, not legally binding.blue_tape

exatly..Game,movie and Music ratings are not law.they are just a tool to let people know whats inside 

um...wasn't that sniper trained in the US military kinda like a certain sombody who murdered JFK...wreak

ya but they couldnt blame video games in Lee Harvey Oswalds case because they hadnt been invented yet.oor else they probably would have 

[QUOTE="Mope01"]Because when you shoot someone in real life they start beeping and glowing blue before finally catapulting in the air in a ridiculous rag-doll style. Jack Thompson is a fool.SymphonicWaves

I agree he is an idiot, especially IF, he wrote this letter, but what you just posted is even dumber, and you're just making

**** up now. He never said anything about people beeping and glowing buddy.

your right jack never said anything about people beeping or glowing but Mope01 never said that Jack said that. he just was giving an example.so you pretty much made yourself look dumber there 

I'm still waiting for a source as to wear this information came from. A reputable source. No "The Onion" or any crap like that.

Hell, look at the way it was written up, looks like some random guy just tossed it together, doesn't sound professional at all.

SymphonicWaves

why are you trying to defend him. and i dont know what "professional" means to you but that sounds pretty damn professional

This thread is full of sheep. I'm glad I left the herd.SymphonicWaves

how do you figure that. your the one who is making a fuss about it. i wouldnt be so surprised if you were Jack yourself 

[QUOTE="SymphonicWaves"]

I'm still waiting for a source as to wear this information came from. A reputable source. No "The Onion" or any crap like that.

Hell, look at the way it was written up, looks like some random guy just tossed it together, doesn't sound professional at all.

FUBAR24

why are you trying to defend him. and i dont know what "professional" means to you but that sounds pretty damn professional

lol, defend him?  I am not trying to defend him.  But I'm not gonna flame him for something he didn't say.  Me asking

for proof that he said that, before going on a rant isn't defending him, it's trying to sort out the truth, from the bull. 

Wow just wow,

Where did you find this btw?

II-FBIsniper-II

THis was actualy posted by a user on a website Forum, I do not know the exact link. I do apologize for the lack of link, I jus tposted what he found out.  

whats this guys beef with videogames he probably got pwned when he was playing pong one to many times. 5 words THIS GUY IS A DOUSHEBAG......(did i spell that right XD)sonofabear17

No, it's douche, and I wish 360, but never will we be free of them.  I once played a game of gears with a 10 and 11 year old...