Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) related to insider trading, and lawmaker actions triggered a separate investigation by the Federal Trade Commission.
Further, Rockstar's parent company, Take-Two Interactive, was already at the tail end of an investigation from the U.S. Rockstar recalled all retail versions of the game and reissued a new version that blocked access to the Hot Coffee scenes by the end of 2005, as well as issuing a patch for existing owners of the game to prevent the Hot Coffee mod from being accessed.Ĭoverage of the Hot Coffee mod raised concerns from lawmakers related to mandatory game ratings, and several civil suits were launched against Rockstar. The ESRB re-rated the game as Adults Only (AO), causing many retailers to pull it from sale, while the OFLC reissued a Refused Classification to the game, banning it from sale in Australia.
Within a month of the patch's release, both the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) and Australian Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) began re-evaluation of the content rating for San Andreas, and drew media attention to the Hot Coffee mod. Modders discovered evidence of these scenes after the PlayStation 2's release in 2004, and fully confirmed their existence with the Microsoft Windows release on June 7, 2005, releasing the "Hot Coffee" patch to unlock the minigame two days later. Near the end of development, he was warned that the content would likely bring Adult-Only ratings rather than their target of Mature ratings, and significantly impact their retail sales, but as the content was so engrained in the title, most of the sexual content was hidden from players using cutscenes rather than removed in the case of the Hot Coffee situation, having the player view the exterior of the home and hear only muffled sounds. More sexual content was included in San Andreas as part of the vision that company president Sam Houser had for the Grand Theft Auto games. The minigame allows players, as protagonist Carl "CJ" Johnson, to have animated sexual intercourse with an in-game girlfriend of their choosing. Hot Coffee is a normally inaccessible minigame in the 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, developed by Rockstar North.
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