In a way, it’s surprising Friday the 13th: The Game got as much support as it did. However, outside of important announcements, you won’t see much activity from the title’s official social media channels, and while you’ll still be able to visit the official community forums, you won’t be able to post on them. In the meantime, it said it will fix “a long list of player issues.” Those who need to get technical support will be able to do so through and the game will continue to be sold.
Gun Media promised to share more details on the update one week before it lands in November. The good news is you’ll still be able to play online through peer-to-peer and private matchmaking, and you won’t lose any progression you’ve made due to the server shutdown. Publisher Gun Media says it will release one final update for Friday the 13th: The Game before shutting the multiplayer slasher fest’s dedicated servers down. Rowr.After a three year run, the latest chapter in the Jason Voorhees story is coming to something of an end (via IGN).
So can you get away with it or will you and your parents share a moment that none of you ever want to remember? There’s only one way to find out! If you’re playing it at work, do remember that this is a game about porn ( about!), and there will briefly be some sexy noises - and some even sexier question marks and plus signs.
After all, what is getting attacked by a serial killer compared to having your mom walk in on you while you’re gazing slack-jawed at milfs? Survival, here, means avoiding the sort of embarrassment that at least feels like being stabbed by a thousand knives. Rather than axe-wielding murderers or otherworldly monsters, the jump scares in You Must Be 18 or Older to Enter revolve around the paranoia of getting caught by your parents in f lagrante delicto with the hottest pics a 14.4 baud modem can download. It’s a painfully realistic experience in how scary, thrilling and confusing it is to the young mind of your protagonist. You play as a kid who’s home alone in the 1990s and decides to log on to AOL and look at porn for the very first time before his parents return.
Just in case there are any lingering questions about the salacious nature of You Must Be 18 or Older to Enter, it is useful to note that it is a) made partly out of ASCII art, and b) a horror game. The good news is that you still can - and you should, because it’s great. But if you’re anything like me, this will only make you want to play the game more. What entertainment is about is not what it is horror games, for example, are typically games about murder, but they are not actually crimes (except in the case of Friday the 13th, which is a travesty).ĭismissing a game with obvious artistic merit as porn is an especially poor precedent to set within a medium that has long struggled for artistic recognition.
This is a conspicuously bad decision, and one that betrays a deep lack of nuance about art and entertainment in general - something that seems relevant to the largest digital distributor of PC games in the world. In a landmark obscenity case, the threshold test for pornography was famously articulated by Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart as “ I know it when I see it.” Unfortunately, it appears that the digital games distributor Valve has a harder time making the distinction between art and base titillation than a 50-year-old judge back in 1964.Īccording to one of the game’s developers, Valve’s distribution platform, Steam, recently removed You Must Be 18 or Older to Enter from its online store on the basis that it was porn (which, again, it is not). To be clear, it is not actually porn, a rather important differentiation.
You Must Be 18 or Older to Enter is a game about porn.