Power company asks Epic to remove utility poles from Fortnite

So now we wait for a letter to Disney to not allow Spiderman swinging from the buildings, from a City Management Services, and so on.

Interesting that this company found that people can climb in the game so this is kinda dangerous, but ignored automatic guns and overall killing spree in there - apparently killing is acceptable, climbing - not this much;)

Still, I do appreciate the concern and general tone of the letter.
Well, the difference is that the utility poles are in public places and easy to access. No matter how I look at it, guns should be significantly more difficult to access than utility poles - especially to children.
 
Also most of the current teen Fortnite players players are probably too fat and unfit to climb anything.
 
The concern is legitimate, particularly in this day and age where children, in the attempt to be cool and fit in can be convinced to do just about anything. Further exacerbated by disconcerting parents that simply don't watch out for their kids. Better still would be an alteration to the game to prevent anyone from climbing those poles but regardless of the approach Epic has some social responsibilities and if they refuse the courts would have every right to hold them responsible as contributors to any child's death that (a) had and plays the game, (b) imitates behavior seen by and taught by the game, (c) a company that is non-responsive and who's non-responsive behavior can be linked (by a&b) to behavior that resulted in death of injury.
Simply put, our corporations need to go back to being concerned for the effects of their products, services, etc and when they don't comply, they must be held liable.
Hi Jack Thompson. Did you get your BAR certification back yet?

GTA V doesnt make people car thieves, shooters do not make people mass murders, D&D does not make people satanists, bad music doesnt make people gangsters, violent comics do not corrupt our youth, ece. Fortnight does not make kids climb poles.

This same braindead argument gets rolled out every few years, never with any evidence to back it up, and the moral purity guardians squeeze their pearls a little tighter on how we need to be concerned with the nebulous "effects" of whatever is in the spotlight that hour.
 
Good advice.

But it's nuts to suggest that a games developer/publisher is responsible for the personal safety of their consumers. A duty of care in relation to content, but nothing more.
 
Is there an end to this? If Fortnite teaches kids somehow to climb up electricity poles than it also teaches them to shoot people, jump from a hill and whatever crazy things you do in that game. But why Fortnite? What about other games? They do the same thing, so why not just ban all games, and while you're at it ban movies and music cause whatever you see or hear you automatically think that's what you're supposed to do, right? Or maybe just realise that 99.9% of people and kids are not that stupid to climb electricity poles because you can do it in the game and the rest are mentally ill and need someone to take care of them.
 
This generation of parents is really not giving their kids enough credit. Ain't no one trying to climb effing power poles IRL because of Fortnite.

If you were to climb one of these live poles which would be stupid in Real Life from the Game sessions. You don't need to touch the conductor wiring. It will find you about 2 metres away from it and kill you whilst setting you on fire (11000 Volts or higher voltages seek ground references) hence massive Ceramic insulators hold the wiring from metal objects. Most youth's will not know anything at all because it can't be seen, smelled or Heard. Danger signage is the last defense a company has of the hazards of trespassing near to these objects. Electrical Distribution engineer UK. NB spider-man is obvious and Not for Real.
 
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