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Amazon steps in as Mass Effect critic suffers gamer backlash

mistermostyn | January 24, 2008 | News | XBOX 360 
The 'full frontal nudity and graphic sex acts' report run by FOX News is still causing a stir, with angry gamers now turning their venom towards psychologist Cooper Lawrence who gave a damning (and innacurate) overview of the game's supposedly rude content.

Since her comments, Lawrence has seen a severe backlash directed towards her via an Amazon product back for her self-help book.

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While Electronic Arts has dispatched a fervent letter to FOX News regarding its claims that sci-fi role-playing game Mass Effect contains full frontal nudity and acts of graphic sex, members of the gaming community have opted to pursue more direct and damaging action against contributing psychologist and writer Cooper Lawrence.

Specifically, Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk has recently seen a sudden influx of reader reviews on product pages attributed to Lawrence’s book ‘The Cult of Perfection: Making Peace with Your Inner Overachiever’ after she participated in the scathing attack against Mass Effect.

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  • 2 thumbs!
    DarkLordAkuma | January 24, 2008
    Hahahaha ive been reading the comments people have been putting, she has been slated into the floor.

    Bye bye book sales, bye bye career, bye bye Cooper. Do us all a favour and burn your degree you got out of a vending machine.
  • 2 thumbs!
    Gothic Girl | January 24, 2008
    Serves her right for making up facts about a game she has never even played. And by the looks of it, what goes around comes around. People are now giving her book negative reviews despite not having read it. It may be immature, but it does prove a point.

    Edit: Oh my god! She has 375 one-star reviews on her Amazon page. She sure has pissed off alot of people!

    quote Amazon
    Tags customers associate with this product:

    ignorant (296)
    hypocrisy (244)
    garbage (239)
    junk (225) hypocrite (221)
    hack (209)
    terrible (194)
    bigot (182)
  • 2 thumbs!
    Seeker X | January 24, 2008
    Hell hath no fury like a gamer society scorned, remember this you anti-gaming pricks, WE OWN THE INTERNET.
  • -1 thumbs!
    Play ISDF | January 24, 2008
    Rofl, all I can say is that she is totally deserving those reviews she's getting. More ammo for people to say games are bad and make people do all this stuff and what not but I just gotta smile at how pissed off the gamer community is. Maybe this'll start sending up flags to people that they shouldn't mess with us, or say things they have no idea about. What's happening is completely immature, but very effective. I just spotted this review on the Amazon link Gothic Girl put in the comment above this one and Seeker X's.

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    I was disgusted to get this book and find that not only did it devote entire chapters to graphic sexual discussions, but it even had illustrations of nudity and discussions of violence. I know this book isn't marketed towards children and only adults are supposed to be able to buy it, but as a parent I feel too incompetent to monitor my kids' behavior all the time- or any time for that matter.

    Having this book in my home made it even harder (!) to be a parent because I constantly had to supervise and spend time with my kids to make sure they didn't sift through the pages and see the full frontal nudity spread in the center. Quite frankly, Lawrence's nudity left a bad taste in my mouth and I was rather upset that no one warned me about the difficulties this book would present for parents.

    Disappointed :-(
    --------------------------------------------------------

    All I can do is laugh, and say "pwnd". With hundreds of reviews like that, she'll regret doing what she did.
  • 3 thumbs!
    kik36 | January 24, 2008
    My favorite:

    "LOL's
    I did not read this book, I'm just gonna assume that it has nothing but garbage in it. Why should I waste time reading? I plays teh videogames."

    LMFAO
  • 3 thumbs!
    Wolfwood | January 24, 2008
    Brilliant! On one hand, this probably won't raise the profile of young adult male gamers... but on the other it's just too damn funny, and a sign of our cynical times. There's more than one way to skin a cat!
  • -4 thumbs!
    IAMJOB56 | January 24, 2008
    Nudity!?!? WTF!?!? Someone give me a video!
  • 1 thumbs!
    slumpy monkey | January 24, 2008
    Owned.

    no make that POWNED
  • 1 thumbs!
    Bri | January 24, 2008
    Well-deserved. Ignorance is something that should absolutely not be tolerated. I may buy a book of hers and burn it just for the hell of it, I mean, since it's full of useless information, it's no different than e-mail spam, which we delete without a second thought.
    • 1 thumbs!
      Woudo | January 25, 2008
      She won't care, she'd still get money for it
  • 1 thumbs!
    Gothic Girl | January 26, 2008
    Looks like all the reviews have been removed. Pah.

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