Police have condemned adults who play the latest in Nintendo’s popular Animal Crossing series, “Animal Crossing: City Folk”, as being predatory paedophiles, saying “There is no reason an adult should have this game”, and claiming that the only motive an adult could have for playing it is to seduce children.
The warning comes from the Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force, where investigator Andy Anderson warns that any adult playing the game “is likely doing so for the wrong reasons”, and points out that online predators could be lurking in the game thanks to its multiplayer capabilities.
Anderson further warns that police just don’t have the resources to stamp out the Animal Crossing lolicon menace, meaning parents may even have to resort to supervising their own children: “The equipment is real expensive and we cannot afford to buy all of the systems and do not have the resources either to examine all of the possibilities.”
The source darkly talks of the game’s relationship building system, where players can exchange letters, gifts and favours in pursuit of friendship, implying out that these elements are tantamount to putting children on a nationwide lolicon meat-market.
Via KMIZ.
Animal Crossing: City Folk, for the Wii, has been available for a number of months now.
The game even offers voice chat, so clearly children are at an elevated risk of verbal molestation.
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Ok... I can see how they can get that, but wow... that's just... I'm speechless at this.
So if I go and buy this game at a store and the clerk sees me as one of these predators, they'll call the police on me? This is ridiculous!
Um... I play this game for a little bit nearly every day. Don't really even use the online capabilities, and I know a lot of adults who enjoy this game who are pretty definitely not even slightly interested in molesting little kids. Funnily enough, I live in mid MO. I might have to make a few nasty phone calls here.
The message I'm getting here is that it's normal for someone of my age to want to play a game where I shoot things up until they explode... that's ok, it's normal. But if I want to make a little theme town (Earthbound in my case), plant some trees and pay off my mortgage, clearly I must want to give children a nice dicking. Seems a bit backwards to me.
Blatant misguided paranoia always irks me.
OMFG A PAEDOPHILE, QUICK, CALL THE COPS!
dont forget!!
bring the UNICEF officer!!
we must protect 2D loli to...
what the police try to do is a faggotry
"Funnily enough, I live in mid MO. I might have to make a few nasty phone calls here."
I wish you the best of luck. Hopefully it won't be Andy Anderson picking up the phone.
I emailed him, and gave him my name as well. I was civil and constructive about it. Though if his judgment is that Animal Crossing is a danger, he would probably construe this place as a pedophile haven.
Well, I feel as though maybe I was a little too nice. So here's his email: AAnderson@boonecountymo.org
Congratulations, Anon. Now please someone e-mail the Animal Crossing thing from Kotaku linked below to him, attached to some polite comments about his statement that do not include the phrase "pants-on-head retarded" more than twice.
That's true I own it too and all my friends who I sometimes play with are all over 20.
Even if you were looking to molest little kids. You would first have to fine them and convince them to give them your friend code. Which would mean they are on a chat site of some kind. Every one knows going on the internet when your above 18 means your a petifile.
NOT TRUE! You could also be a potential spree killer in case you are playing first-person shooters or a terrorist if you are using Google Maps or like to play Counterstrike.
That's why you only buy online.
Very cunning. That way the police only get your credit card purchase history, address and bank details.
hm.. so that's a really good reason to get rips from the net. Like how every american should download their loli manga ilegally, because he otherwise is sure to be imprisoned.
Police drives honest buyers in delinquency.
Any adult buying a game rated 'E' is a pedophile now! Didn't you get the memo?
I dont even owned a wii..
Hi law enforcers. Please die.
O shit they found out
hurry, get them out of the closet
hide them under the couch!!! before they arrive!!
T-T wish i had a wii ....im a poor loicon :*( someone buy me a wii!!!!!
Hi, I would like to know if you're interested in the small sum of 10 Million American Dollars. I'm Nigerian royalty.
Sounds like something out from spam e-mails, lol.
that guy sounds legit, I mean his Nigger royalty.
lol I think they're thinking a little much about the pedophilia possibility
people are getting more and more paranoid......
perhaps too paranoid for their own good...
Hopefully they all die out soon...
The sheer level of ignorance is mindblowing.
Muwhahahaha
Sometimes I just dislike people of authority >.<
This does not bode well for anyone. The gaming population grows older everyday. Next thing you know there'll be max age restrictions on games. Can't play games if your over 18.
CG+13
Children Strongly Cautioned
Your Parents Might Be A Paedophile
GOD DAMN NO. My games my classic gameing noooo!!!
Oh no! You mean parents might have to supervise their children's online activities?
It was bad enough getting leered at when buying DOAX, now I get the same looks for Animal Crossing too?
You know, that's basically what I thought when I read that part of the article. Had a good chuckle. It's too bad that there are parents out there that would be pissed off over this because the police aren't doing their job...
It's also too bad that lots of parents are like my dad, totally technologically illiterate. Because of that, and the time constraints of making enough money with either dual income or w/e to keep afloat, they have no interest or ability to learn enough of what's going on to monitor their children's online activity...
no. it's your kids that have to supervise you playing games if you're over 18
Those bastards have gone too far this time! Lets all buy a copy and do stuff
Rated E for Everyone*
*Except adults
LOL
they're too young to see this kind of stuff?
A CO rating will be introduced before 2015, mark my words.
Even though it's out for Wii too, no Animal Crossing post is complete without this story: http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2007/11/animalcrossing_mirror.jpg
Someone should show this story to those police, then punch them all in the face.
that story was so bittersweet.
I cried a single tear.
...*tear*
I curse you for my manly tears.
I curse for my manly almost tears :/
*sniff* *sniff*....I doubt its a true story....but still, sad.
Gah, I still cry when I read that T_T
..wait, aren't those letters/gifts sent from your IN-GAME mother? It couldn't have been the dude's mother, since you can only send one letter to the future to yourself :V lol
He had a character in the game, he just never played it. We're talking about the original Animal Crossing, you know.
manly tears swell my tearducts. touching story, regardless if it was real or not.
manly tears everywhere.