Came here to ask the same question.

Lol yes…yes I do! I didn’t know it was banned because it was played quite a bit on whatever I used to watch. Man I want to say G4 but I’m not sure the time lines work out.

The only thing I can think, is it was marketed to those ‘cool’ parents. “Like, wow man! My kid needs this edgy game!” Even that’s a stretch…

Yeah, I’m not sure who kicked it off but the Nintendo, Sega wars in the 80s kind of started with the quirky ‘edgy’ crap and that carried over into the PS/Xbox era. The Nintendo power mags had some seriously nonsense ads and the tv commercials kind of ran the gambit. A lot of ‘we’re gamers, parents just wouldn’t understand’ type ads. Here’s one that even teen me was like ‘wtf?’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-qBkWerZDg

Yeah I enjoyed OW for a bit. Me and the gf would play mayhem mode when it was up. We stopped playing when they forced the change to OW2 and took some of the skins. I miss ow, but have no desire to play OW2.

Hahah! This was us way back with EverQuest. She would die and have to do a corpse run and want to quit. Now she’s a video game addict…

Thanks! Edit: Link isn’t working for me for some reason. Bummer

Can someone sum up the controversy? I’ve seen quite a bit but not sure exactly what’s what.

As opposed to figuratively a discussion forum for talking about whatever you want?

You know what’s crazy is I am pretty sure I remember that thread…

Morally wrong? lolwut? Please don’t ask the internet moral advice…