Rockstar's Biggest Scandal

[@morsmutual]

Sorry for the long wait on a new video. Rockstar news has been dry lately, but I will try my best to push out videos more frequently from now on. Thanks for your support ♥️

[@NobleGamer889]

Daniel give me coffee

[@Red_hoodeditz]

Make memes again

[@StrangePall]

Its alright man

[@muscletype2]

hop on mmi smp i love you

[@MeLoNarXo]

dont worry your videos are always a banger i dont care how long ill need to wait for them

[@Dragono_]

Never forget the insane transformation of this channel. From silly minute long skits to production quality documentary esque productions, it’s incredible

[@Syntex366]

Not to mention how instantly it happened, like flipping a switch.

[@clipsdelosmajes]

I would say there was a taste of it in those skits. I still remember the "last day of GTA Online" (don't remember the actual name but it was about that) short video and it was really emotional. Made me cry. Song choice was crucial too. Footage and narration. EDIT: I found it, it's "The Life of a GTA Player".

[@Doc084]

yeah, the old times were funnier

[@baybora01]

yeah we love to see it

[@StuartLugsden]

He still makes them he just wants to make news videos as well.

[@Milty2001]

I like how Hillary Clinton tried to remove san andreas from shelves all because of the mini game and rockstar later added her face on the statue of happiness holding a coffee cup as a last screw you to the whole incident

[@GKapin]

Hilary Clinton wanted to drone strike Edward Snowden

[@emilylee6018]

The whole point of proposing to "ban" the game at a governmental level, was to maximise its mass adoption by the young public. This is a tried and tested method. The rulers want you occupying the short arc of your life, indoors gazing at screens.

[@BrownDaddy007]

@@emilylee6018 Exactly this!

[@SeriousDragonify]

​@@emilylee6018"Nice" conspiracy theorist statement. Youre ignorant.

[@emilylee6018]

@@SeriousDragonify You're* simple, don't panic, there are many like you.

[@Fxlkxn]

bro went from a troll to a professional youtuber

[@estertreier2779]

He is still a troll.

[@SomeGuy_Somewhere]

How is he a troll?

[@-sanju-]

"Thanks" to AI 👍

[@Fxlkxn]

@@SomeGuy_Somewhere watch his old posts.

[@pluto6184]

all copied from Simplicissimus

[@Goro69]

so many games have very strong sexual content now, like cyberpunk, witcher, baldur's gate, and no one complains about that, not to mention, that are a lot of video games on steam that are just about sex and nothing else, I hope GTA 6 won't be affected by these complains and give the players what they want among many many other things.

[@Syntex366]

This is a video about a VERY old topic, from an era where the whole “video games cause violence” thing has basically just begun due to games taking on 3d and minor realism. This isn’t even a thought anymore in peoples eyes, you’ll never have to worry about it.

[@Goro69]

@@Syntex366 I hope you're right.

[@Profinoob1337]

I bet they wont show more than boobs and hanging dicks again. Which makes me wonder why they draw the line at vaginas

[@flidirfesfe]

@@Goro69Why you mean the game is 20 years old. Never know With GTA6 💀

[@rayh6118]

Not to be like a video game nerd but GTA4 and GTA5 also had explicit acts and got M rating Society changed just like back in the 70s sx in movies was a big no no

[@ropej00]

For me, real scandal was when Rockstar released GTA trilogy Defective edition.

[@mr.e3247]

Truth!!

[@LESLEYYY0]

it's not that bad imo

[@BishopDeeds]

The definitive edition is MUCH better than the originals

[@r0b3rt_959]

​@@BishopDeeds lay off the copium dude

[@BishopDeeds]

@@r0b3rt_959 go enjoy your ps2 graphics, controls, and lack of quality of life improvements DUDE

[@StuartLugsden]

Fun facts: 1) Theres 2 another hot coffee easter eggs in GTA 4. An achievement of the same name after your first invite in and one where Michell/Karen says no to sex and mentions that it would cost $20,000,000. 2) When RDR2 came out someone made a sex minigame for the saloons and when Rockstar found out they terminated it. Obviously they couldn’t allow another lawsuit.

[@jackmills7758]

modders making hot coffee mods from scratch and developers hiding hot coffee code are two different things, rockstar would be fine when its the modders making the mechanics themselves, r*'s problem is they kept the code in instead of removing it which is how they got into hot waters, lol

[@StuartLugsden]

@@jackmills7758 You watched the video 2 huh?

[@SeriousDragonify]

​@@jackmills7758Lol the animation is literally from the mission. There's nothing much. Youre not supposed t see when thats behind door. Youre only seeing cutscene when ya enter. Mission is when Arthur and Lenny get drunk.

[@jackmills7758]

@@SeriousDragonify difference is the mission's context is its suppose to be funny wheras modders straight up make p*rn

[@jimmymetal713]

I bet lazlow game up with that idea. He started up another game company with another one of the rockstar guys who left. Their new game sounds so dope he talks about rockstar and his new game on Dan Soders podcast.

[@Its_Danny-]

Yeah as a european i can't wrap my mind around us logic, so shooting a gun is perfectly legal from 12 under supervision, getting your drivers license at 15 is also okay, buying guns at 18 is okay, joining the military is also okay at 18, drinking and smoking cannot happen before 21, you can watch movies with gore and sex scenes which is totally fine, you can play a pixelated game killing people and shooting them at 17 but oh no if you want to kiss your in game girlfriend that has 5 pixels as a face it's a national security issue and must not be allowed at any given time if you do you go to jail. 😂 also the lawsuit of that grandmother, she already broke the rules by buying a 17+ game for a 14 year old and still has grounds to sue for 5 million? Understood if she got a refund but oh no that's america, we usually have laws of common sense if you try something like that the judge will laugh at you and ask you if you're sane and why you can't seem to think normally and recognize you also have some responsibility

[@vikkij5221]

That's US for you. But then, you have to understand, there is a massive water gap between our land of logic and american logic, so it's like a different world. Imperial measurement, despite being against imperialism and english history (imperial measurement was, is and probably will be used by british country and their former colonies; and well, US was former british colony); guns are allowed because citizens have right for self-defense (although Europe doesn't have legal guns and somehow our continent is safest in the world; you can ask Google); questionable age restrictions; confusing driving laws and intersections (look that up on some YT channels); MASSIVE amount of obese people due to MASSIVE amount of Fast Food Restaurants. America is weird, man.

[@TargaryenAC]

Well apparently you havent played the mod. Its not just kissing, it was never the issue and its even present in the final product. There was literally a sex mini game that caused the problem.

[@vikkij5221]

@@TargaryenAC Sir, no offense, but how can a game or mod for the game including sex be in anyway offensive? Especially if the audience is mature or adults. At this stage of life you already know what is sex and how people are getting born. So having that kind of entertainment should have not been an issue. That's part of our life. I understand if the game was meant for younger audience, but whole drama just bcs game had sex, but had rating for mature and adult audience sounds like looking for a hole in a whole.

[@kirby1225]

@@vikkij5221 Europe does have legal guns. Some places even allow concealed carry.

[@TargaryenAC]

@@vikkij5221 none taken, its not about what makes sense, its about law and as said in this video, sex mini game makes it an 18+ product which Rockstar was trying to avoid. The whole issue was just that SA, a 17+ game had this 18+ content. I’m a Rockstar fanboy btw they can add whatever they want and I’ll enjoy it.

[@StoneOcean24]

What’s crazy is that you can still do the Hot Coffee with mods.

[@revengefulsouls5201]

Even on gta v😂

[@Death_Jaw]

I have a PS2 version on an emulator that has the mini game. I don't mess with it but I found out by accident and was surprised to actually see it. I think it's stupid that they made a big fuss when it was just low polygon models moving up and down and they still lost their minds even though it was still a mature game. It should be the parents that get in trouble or who ever bought the game for a child.

[@StoneOcean24]

@@Death_Jaw I wish they would’ve kept it Adult.

[@Brownmamba8]

@@Death_Jaw I bought san andreas in mexico when i was 7 and it had it, When i was a teen i tried to play it again and was so mad when i found out it did not come with it lol.

[@TheVigilantCritic]

I told my mom this story, and she called Hilary 'Tipper Clinton' for the rest of the day.

[@flamingeel3196]

and the icing on the cake, they've still kept it on the dedinitive edition and they got no backlash almost 2 decades later

[@JDC369]

15:39 >buys 14 year old, a 17+ rated game >lawsuit? lol?

[@aYTcommenter]

Biggest Bozo of the Whole World💀💀

[@TheFunnyDictator]

Some people are just silly.

[@alimonydodger]

@@TheFunnyDictatoru can call her silly but she won 5 mill sooo...

[@bestlaptop_psn]

​@@alimonydodgershe did not

[@TheFunnyDictator]

@@alimonydodger Just because she won $5 million, it doesn't mean that she's not silly.

[@JetroYT]

No trailer 2 got me feeling ways, but in comes MMI to save us with this masterpiece.

[@thunderdragondome]

the head of rockstar not answering any phone call and advising the company to not respond to anybody, was a precursor on how they would deal with gta online's problems lol

[@XTreMelyEpicYT]

Another gta documentary before gta6 💀

[@D4RKM1DNIGHT]

"No shit" - CJ

[@araylaurence6220]

how is this one even suprising

[@royale7620]

How r u kids not tired of this dumb joke?

[@Goro69]

brainrot

[@AshleyYoung87]

I Got A Bad Feeling if that Game Would be Flop

[@X.V.P]

They also mocked the hot coffee situation in gta chinatown wars with Haung Lee the protagonist offers Ling shan a coffee she declines saying "Very funny"

[@balrogbox]

After Dogpack504 everyone's doing the detective-case Tumbnail💀

[@akiluro2981]

I think it’s inspired by the German KZbinr Simplisissymus who did that since 2017/2018.

[@balrogbox]

@@akiluro2981 No, its literally copying Dogpack because his video went viral so youtubers are trying to get some of his success since the algorithm is now pushing that kind of Tumbnail thanks to him.

[@aYTcommenter]

​@@balrogboxno lol these type of thumbnails are already popular since early 2020s

[@AKAK-rh7lr]

@@aYTcommenterFacts. Dogpack probably saw it on the German KZbinr’s channel, which was mentioned by the guy above me. Even if not, it’s been popular for a while, and is on MANY channels.

[@Synclon]

​@@balrogboxDogpack didn't start the thumbnail Style Trend, it's fern

[@handsoffmymacaroni102]

Even though I've heard of this story before, I learned a lot of new things in this video, also great production quality!

[@xiled9841]

I love how still rockstar makes Easter eggs of this episode in 2024 by adding Brock Thompson as a bounty target as a parody of Jack Thompson

[@foopington]

The average person couldn’t even access the content without going out of their way how was there even a lawsuit

[@DaRabbit4Life]

6:40 LMAO Sam Houser and Rockstar's vision with every single game, without the corporate wording xD

[@EditorHeart]

Finally Remembed The Password 😂

[@lokamtywa]

Your first

[@TKsh1]

There's something really funny about Sam Houser knowing that hell would go loose on them and he just "ok that's actually pretty cool". Too bad Patrick and modders got what they didn't deserve.

[@lynelone5989]

Wow MMI is dropping movies outta nowhere

[@aurimasm]

This was so overblown god damn

[@D4RKM1DNIGHT]

This one file almost made the company shut down

[@S1nGuLariTY_]

Movies can have violence and sex scenes. But if games has it, ITS A PROBLEM!

[@debroopsarkar4613]

That being all said and done, I just don't think hot coffee would be this devastating if Manhunt didn't exist the previous year.

[@FR0Z0NEkeys]

Rockstar was wilding during its prime. You could run people over in the first two Midnight Club games.

[@TouringWolf42]

I always wondered what was more dangerous to kids. A disc of code, or actual rampant gun violence and school shootings and drugs. I dunno.

[@UltraBrian]

It’s all dumb

[@MrVendingMachine]

It should be up to parents to make sure the kids aren’t playing inappropriate things not the government

[@Dragono_]

3:50 among us reference 😳

[@rayh6118]

I saw Leslie Benzies vent

[@SovereignSpectre]

I was always baffled how a liberal politician was angry about this scandal. You would have thought a conservative would be mad about this like Jack Thompson but it was Hilary Clinton. This is how I knew the change in liberal politics has occurred and liberalism wasn't the same anymore entering the age of progressive liberalism and 2015. You'd expect liberals to be ok with "free artistic expression" and was angry about this. This when a political shift occurred where liberals and conservatives changed sides where it was the conservatives finger wagging and morally scolding culture but now it was liberals doing it. I would say we still live in that age and flavor of liberalism. Thank you Hilary Clinton.

[@peacebewu]

I'm not from the US. Here in my country it was conservatives that discouraged kids from playing violent games in the early 00's. A teacher of mine from a Christian school said he played GTA and it was so brutal and told us not to play it😅 US politics is interesting.

[@CesarR1037]

Dude I totally agree. I’ve been saying the same thing for years now. I always used the example of Christian conservatives trying to censor everything, mostly between the 60’s and 90’s. They called rock music satanic, tried to tell people what they can and can’t say, always said things like "think about the children", etc. Nowadays it’s the so-called progressives who try to censor shit, I’d say even worse than their conservative predecessors. It’s crazy how they’ve all done a complete 180

[@10thDent1st]

Rockstar is probably the most influential studio in all gaming history. Right next to Valve and Mojang

[@BoldAMATUER]

It baffles me how age of consent is 16 in the UK but you need to be 18 to purchase GTA 5.

[@barrupa]

Imagine all the taxpayer money wasted into investigating a feature that wasn't even available in the game. Do rating boards also sniff around into parts of movie scripts that never get shot or edited into the final cut?

[@ThatOneChick420]

Another great video, thanks for an interesting and good watch MMI. Can't complain about the wait when you put so much effort into it, enjoyed the editing. Keep up the nice work! 🙂

[@thejudgefrom69]

Rockstar: for GTA VI.. make litter/garbage crush physics, a coffee cup should not be able to hold a 3400 lb car..

[@BishopDeeds]

Sam (and Dan) and Rockstar are true visionaries in the gaming industry. This is just another of the dozens and dozens of reasons why GTA San Andreas is still the best GTA to this day. He really wanted to create a second world for people to live in - you could literally do just about anything in SA, other than this one thing they were unable to get in. It will continue to be the greatest GTA until GTA 6 comes along - which will be the true fully realized evolution of the series. They are taking a full 7 years to work on it because they want to and need to - not because they had to.

[@Jeff-BronxBombers]

Your production value is top notch. Thank you for your hard work. I love how your videos capture your enthusiasm and admiration of Rockstar Games and the Grand Theft Auto series.

[@Mohamed58290]

Its stupid how making your game 1 year higher in its rating can move it from success to failure the system of age rating games is broken

[@This_isPOWER]

It's actually not broken

[@LaczPro]

This was a reminder of how the company was like before, controversial, crazy, the dollars didn't matter to do stuff like this (but they were still important)... Just like when Mortal Kombat started this whole ESRB stuff, Rockstar basically changed the view on this subject, even when US politics tried to stop it (but, even at the cost of lawsuits, employees being harassed, and all the PR drama, the game got a boost on sales because of it). Current day Rockstar only obeys Take 2. Don't go crazy, make money first.

[@aitovege]

new Mors Mutual Insurance videos > old Mors Mutual Insurance videos

[@jitteryjet7525]

I like how Rockstar threw their own employees under the bus. They left inactive code in a computer program because removing it would "break" the computer program... - I never bought that story. Rockstar liked trouble, in my opinion they left the code in for it to be discovered or to use it later.

[@zematic_4881]

these long video essay are awesome keep it up please.

[@DaRabbit4Life]

8:46 This makes me wonder if Sam still visits forums such as reddit and gtaforum to see what horrendous ideas people come with for VI lol.

[@divyankkumar1796]

MMI making these kind of videos is truly unexpected W video

[@jason96]

If movies can have violence and nudity, so can video games

[@AizenSam-l2q]

Well if They add Hot Coffee back in GTA 6, They wouldn't even get controversial cuz people are more into men to men and women to women

[@blackfox7448]

Now that you say that, it might be even a posibility now, now that i think of it lol altough i doubt it, maybe would give the tools to modders tough at minimal xD

[@CesarR1037]

lol yeah nowadays they’d be mad if gay sex ISNT an option

[@cypressdogsy425]

Rockstar's history is basically people telling Sam to not do stuff

[@RoleAce]

Mors really did a glow up 😭 I'm proud of everyone behind the scenes, getting sponsored and shit *sheessh*

[@exgamer3459]

Imagine creating a game so good that pisses off the government.

[@StuartLugsden]

I’ll say one good thing about the Rockstar Hot Coffee docodrama. Daniel Radcliffe did a great job at playing Sam. I actually forgot it was him after a while. If they ever make a sequel they should being him back and get Loan Gruffudd to play Strauss Zelnick.

[@christycullen2355]

Genuinely forgot how good The Game changers was. Might have to watch it again

[@CesarR1037]

Wait they made a movie about this?? Holy shit I gotta watch it

[@StuartLugsden]

@@CesarR1037 Its a docodrama centred around the making of SA and the hot coffee controversy. Its based off the words of ex staff and journalists so its not completely accurate. Sam or Dan even criticised it on Twitter and even Jamie King denied a lot of it.

[@StuartLugsden]

Archive

[@StuartLugsden]

Thats where you can watch it. They keep deleting my comment with the link.

[@alfonsoatoms]

When Niko finally took that girl on a date in GTA IV, the mission name was Hot Coffee ☕️

[@zkittlezthabanditt604]

I love how this channel started out with stupid memes, and now, here we are.

[@NobleGamer889]

This is truly a Daniel give me coffee moment

[@tausifjahangir]

Rockstars Biggest Sandal. Time to get glasses

[@zainiftekhar]

This is some eye watering producting quality. Love your documentaries!

[@Thirsty555]

15:40 That grandmother just wanted cash for doing nothing.

[@ElPatron42069]

Honestly I've heard about this so many times to the point where I am sick of hearing about it

[@vamptheEater]

The game is too good that they give it lawsuit

[@r3tr0c0e3]

killary had a lot of nerve

[@hugo.thefrenchie]

Why does this feel like an @fern crossover episode? Either way I'm here for it

[@jimmymetal713]

I bet lazlow game up with that revenge idea. He started up another game company with another one of the rockstar guys who left. Their new game sounds so dope he talks about rockstar and his new game on Dan Soders podcast about a month or 2 ago.

[@christycullen2355]

The glow up this channel has had Is insane. From minute long skits to really good documentaries

[@MarkCuckerberg666]

I loved all the easter eggs about this in GTA IV, especially with the Statue of Happiness being Hillary Clinton holding a cup of coffee

[@art_of_anarchism]

It's not like 17 years old were virgin innocent and know nothing about sex smh

[@weishen2407]

You guys are becoming the new GTASeriesVideos, keep it up!

[@kaskbtw]

This channel just has blown up, i subbed at like 2k subs and now youre at over 600k

[@andrewwright.]

That must of been a beautiful moment when the hacker got that call to say thanks. This is why I like rockstar

[@Llamazalt]

its crazy how a game supposed to recreate what was going on in america during the 90s is getting massively censored by its own country.

[@your6322]

bruh i accidentally skipped a part and suddenly it said "this video won't be possible without hot coffee"

[@blankalphachannel]

This guy is an ABSOLUTELY GREAT STORYTELLOR!

[@ACE-tr1df]

Sex should be normalized in GTA games !!!

[@jakemccloud9518]

I mean it is isn’t it? GTA 5 and RDR1 both had cutscenes of NPCs having sex.

[@aiIeri]

i think it should be on the same level of violence in any game i dont see 2 polygons having intercourse a big deal violence = ok sex = BANNED GAME

[@Das_Unterstrich]

To give Rockstar credit, they still tried to push the boundaries as much as they could and didn't just completely give in

[@yungakie]

That sex minigame was funny ash

[@dyon1576]

I met Patrick once at the nightly release for GTA V. We were waiting in line and he took a couple of pictures. He told me he was very active in fan fora and other stuff. Never knew he was the person behind Hot Coffee..

[@DimTragic]

Please make more longer content just like that!

[@technologykid7041]

As a software engineer I can tell you near launch removing code can actually fuck up the program, microservices were not that big back then…

[@ovidiuz34]

all that crap for some animations that barely resembled sex 😂

[@Sp0ntanCombust]

I didn't even know this scandal went all the way to the government level.

[@ChrisVesgo]

I remember watching the movie with Daniel Radcliffe this brings me back a long time ago

[@MaQuGo119]

Anita Sarkeesian was the new Jack Thompson, Horseshoe theory.

[@-sanju-]

A woman making very mild feminist analysis and critique of games is comparable to Jack Thompson? What?

[@ShivanshRana]

I like how rockstar puts hilliary clinton’s face at state of liberty in gta 4 😂

[@concolas333]

this is so good, it deserves more views

[@psyduck8025]

Jeez man, imagine going through all this trouble, causing this much of an uproar over a goofy mini game where two fully clothed characters jankily have 'sex', hidden in the game code that no kid would ever know how to access unless they knew how to modify their console for a game that they weren't even allowed to buy in the first place due to the M rating. Heck, they likely wouldn't have even been aware of its existence hadn't it been for all the public uproar ... Humans are a special breed, man.

[@HeroVax]

How Cyberpunk 2077 had scenes but nobody barks?

[@redcobra6016]

Different times.

[@Acacius0]

they suffered so much for us let us do the same by forgetting their one and only mistake the defective edition. 😢💔

[@SC2_WARRIORS]

I like the way the videos are created and played.

[@shoreseventyeight4445]

THE TRANSFORMATION OF THIS CHANNEL IS INSANE

[@danfox2263]

i remember being 4 years old playing this on my older sisters ps2 lmao

[@Incognito-eg9]

This dude went from being a meme youtuber to a commentary youtuber

[@johnmielvital8974]

Can't believe GTA: San Andreas is about to turn 20 years old in a few days.

[@henrik1743]

Awesome improvement in production!!!

[@sebhhh]

Imagine being a kid at that time and you just downloaded this mod and you do your stuff and right there your mother/father opens your door and they caught you right in the middle of the act 😂😂

[@timyassa4343]

All this over a single scene... there's soooo much more to the game

[@leo13246]

Back when Rockstar would go all out and give fxkall just to go to the leveles others didn't dare just for the sake of sales and amazing games for fans Unfortunately, today's rockstar has become a milking company they'll sacrifice sales knowing they have endless money making opportunities ingame

[@Jortan]

Wow, he got a call from THE Rockstar!? I don't think anyone has even seen Mr Rockstar!

[@MoGumbo_]

This was possibly the most stupid shit ever. All over unused assets

[@paco680]

I knew that Rockstar had so many scandals and controversies with governments and agencies because of the content they are making, but i think its prosecution and restriction to freedom of expression

[@Yourcheerz]

You can sell drugs in chinatown wars, but hot coffee crossed the line 😹