In true Scottish style: GET IT RIGHT UP YE Jack Thompson

Gamers are undivided in the fight against Jack Thompson and similar idiots who want to force the government into telling us adults what games we can and can not play, and so are game companies.

Glad to see EA will try to get Ea in a respectiful manner

I usually don't say this but OWNED. I was expecting EA to turn down his offer but this is just a slap to the face.

EA got to be the most split company I ever seen. On one side, they have great companies, making great games. They got people like Peter Moore, Will Right, Bioware, Criterion, etc (I would now put Mariam Sughayer on that list). But they also have idiots that make bad games like Catwoman, sports games(releasing a new one every year, and 2 fifa games per year) and god forbid, ET.

Oooh... You want a tissue Jack?

Or are you going to sue them too, now?

Ouch!

They seem to be taking all the right PR steps at the moment, they just need to release more games without numbers at the end of the title....

Well what else can they say to him, EA cnt work with him so they have to tell him that, it doesn't mean that they're ignoring him, it means they want him to shut up and stay out of it. It wouldn't be smart for Jack to sue them for some terrible reason on this either as EA has a lot more money than his past opponants and can prolly put 6 feet under legally

whoops misread the article. EA is making a good call, i thought game politics was saying something else, I retract my last statement

aww, did EA tell him to GFH? Some people never learn (or simply refuse to.)

Another cookie for EA, though... despite the whole maddenopoly thing, but I'm not a real hardcore sports game fan, so that's not my concern.

OMG!! To many JT picts back to back! I'm starting to have strange flash backs for thing I never lived through. For a heartbeat I seriously considered that I went the official JT fan club site and we were ready to sing M-I-C-K-E-Y_M-O-U-S-E together. The humanity of it all...

Hey, there's something wrong with this bridge. It appears burnt.

good.

I was kinda expecting this. EA was so adamant about defending Mass Effect. Looks like they did some research about who Thompson is.

This must be an huge blow for Thompson's ego. Wonder how he took it.

Pwnd!

Hey EA, if you're still looking for help, I'm available.

Ahahahahahahaha....

BURNED!

How do you get the job to write these sorts of letters for a corporation? Who can honestly say their job description as: "I get to call people D-Bags in the most polite way possible".

I may never say this again, so savor it... kudos EA on a job well done.

I can see Jack's response now...

"Dear ass-faced, pedophilic, brain-dead, nerds and murderers at EA,

You've just dug your own grave. I'll see you in court for slander and libel. Govern yourselves accordingly. Hooah.

Jack Thompson"

PWNED :lol:

Unruly:

Actually he's probably just gonna say that EA's rejection is EA playing right into his hands, and that the letter fits perfectly into JT's plans.

If there's one thing that has to be said about JT, it's sure hard to get him down. what an optimist.

JT makes false and inflammatory statements about games, and now a game company doesn't want to hear from him when he offers to 'help.' JT reaps what he sows.

(And apparently JT sowed a big ol' sack of pwnage seeds.)

He is wrecking himself.BAD.

@Viralhunter

No.

Like Rodrigo Ybáñez García said, no. He's done enough. He should just go in a corner and die.

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The only reason JT bowed out of the Mass Effect "scandal" is because he epends time on gaming websites- hoping to find mentions of himself to masturbate to. He found out the whole thing was stupid before he had time to act (remember, the conservative blogger started it first).

JT will either respond to EA by doing one of the following:

A) Sue, or threaten to sue EA.

B) Issue a statement about this being the single greatest thing that has ever happened in his law career- and it being the final weapon he needs to destory TT/R*/videogames.

C) Go on to personally attack Mariam Sughayer for being part of the homosexual conspiracy and being a drug addict.

D) All of the above.

laughing so hard at this right now.....


john boy is comedic gold

Sorry for double posting, but I can't edit. I know that Peter Moore now works for EA Sports, and I just bash EA Sports. Peter is a great spokes man, and I hope he could make some changes.

People don't forget, and it's obvious that EA never forgot his comments about Sims 2. Anyone smell another obvious lawsuit, this time because EA turned him down?

Dear EA,

Though i do hate you for making CnC3, CnC Generals, MOH:Airborne a flop and all you want is to suck our money...

I'm behind you all the way on JT. STUFF IT DOWN HIS THROAT GOOD!

@Aragorn

No, optimists still know they could be wrong and things won't turn out well. Jack is either in denial or completely delusional. Or maybe a little of column A and a lot of column B... A LOT of column B.

thank you ea

Ah...now that just gives me warm-sunshine-y feelings.

HA HA HA! Oh, this is the best thing I've read all day!

While Jack contacted them for publicity, I really think EA is only doing this to get themselves and the merger back in the spotlight.

Nice to see someone dismiss him and bring his past stupid claims back up, but I just can't trust EA's motives.

FANTASTIC

Great response there Mariam Sughayer. Nice to see a blunt response as well given Jack's tendency to waffle and self-promote.

Chalk up another win for the gaming community!

EA is a strong supporter of creative freedom for game developers.

I was too lazy to do more than a ctrl+F but am I really the only one commenting on the irony here?

Within a week Jack will name EA as a defendant in some court case. Just wait and see.

Yet ANOTHER libel suit he'll never be able to pursue in 3...2...

"I’ve just seen excerpts at Gamasutra. That’s fine. Then I’ll be involved at the Take-Two shareholders meeting. Oh, and EA’s improper collaboration with modders of the Sims was and is absolutely correct. "

LOL. If I take a copy of the Bible, glue pictures of naked women into it and give it children, are the people who published the book guilty of improper collaboration with me? Thompson's claims about the Sims were and are absolute bullshit.

Also, there's no way at all he'll be involved at the shareholders meeting. Even if he attends, what does he expect to accomplish? Whinge at the people? Threaten them?

Even though his threats are empty and he is pretty powerless, the man's zeal is kind of scary.

"I’ve just seen excerpts at Gamasutra. That’s fine. Then I’ll be involved at the Take-Two shareholders meeting. Oh, and EA’s improper collaboration with modders of the Sims was and is absolutely correct. "

And so begins the temper tantrum.

I'm still seeing him in the animations version of a tantrum.
Angry face.
Fists balled up.
And the legs up, then down, then up, then down...
All with the growly sound bite.

Nightwng2000
NW2K software

Typical Jack Thompson. Jack doesn't get his way, Jack throws a fit, and no, you dumbass, EA was not in collaboration with those modders who made those skins.

Brandon, he doesn't let facts get in the way of his finger pointing.

Everytime he opens his mouth, he seems to think that people won't remember what he has said before. It's almost as if he feels he is some sort of super genius and the rest of us are idiots that will believe everything he says. When we challenge what he is saying, he acts as if we are breaking some sort of rule.When we recall what he has said in the past, he acts as if it isn't allowed. As if life is some big court case and he can say, "Wait a minute, I'm not the one on trial here, let's keep focused on T2, ok?"

Jack, if you lie about a company, if you insult a company, if you make your personal cause the bringing down of the very industry the company represents... don't issue a press release to the company and expect a happy-happy responce.

[...] Jack Thompson Fires Back at EA, Claims He Has a Client with a T2 Claim March 06th, 2008 | Category: Gaming News …so by now you’ve read Electronic Arts stinging dismissal of controversial attorney Jack Thompson’s offer to help it acquire Take Two Interactive. We’ve just received from Thompson that copy of his response to EA: I have in the last few days been contacted by a company with whom Take-Two does business.  that company is now my client.  [...]

"Oh, and EA’s improper collaboration with modders of the Sims was and is absolutely correct. "


He... has no idea how modding works does he?

But thats Thompson, engineer of the Failtrain.

PWNED!!!

How much lower can JT go now that the devil of the video game industry has just given him the proverbial bird?

Oh and JT... This is what happens when you make ENEMIES OF EVERYONE!!!

"Oh, and EA’s improper collaboration with modders of the Sims was and is absolutely correct. "

And he's wondering why they refused his help.

And what makes him so sure Take Two will want his help either? He's been out to destroy them.

Now that is a nice way to tell someone to eff off.

@ Mystic

I heard he had 100 shares.

That won't get anybody's attention either.

Jack, Jack, Jack

EA didn't collaborate with anyone.

- Warren Lewis