Fox News guest Cooper Lawrence admits she “misspoke” about Mass Effect

Psychology expert and self-help author Cooper Lawrence who appeared on the segment that featured EA’s Mass Effect in bad light has admitted her mistakes, saying she “misspoke” about full nudity and graphic sex scenes in Mass Effect. Lawrence is currently weathering a storm raging on the internet caused by her remark on Fox News. More details at the full article.

After psychology expert Cooper Lawrence joined Fox News‘  Live Desk With Martha MacCallum and offended Electronic Arts by claiming the BioWare developed RPG Mass Effect shows full digital nudity and graphic sex scenes, gamers fired back and attacked her through message boards, blogs, and other places on the Internet. Not long since the book she’s selling on Amazon, The Cult of Perfection: Making Peace With Your Inner Overachiever, got hundreds of negative reviews, Lawrence finally admitted that she “misspoke” about the game.

According to The New York Times, Lawrence said in an interview:

I recognize that I misspoke. I really regret saying that, and now that I’ve seen the game and seen the sex scenes it’s kind of a joke. Before the show I had asked somebody about what they had heard, and they had said it’s like pornography. But it’s not like pornography. I’ve seen episodes of ‘Lost’ that are more sexually explicit.

Publisher EA already requested Fox News to correct the wrong information spread around via its segment featuring Mass Effect. On the other hand, developer BioWare’s CEO Ray Muzyka dropped The New York Times a phone call to say:

WeÂ’re hurt. We believe in video games as an art form, and on behalf of the 120 people who poured their blood and tears into this game over three years, weÂ’re just really hurt that someone would misrepresent the game without even playing it. All we can hope for is that people who actually play our games will see the truth.

Behind the banter between the game industry giant and Fox News, enraged gamers also played a major role in events that led Lawrence to actually see Mass Effect.

As The New York Times noted, negative user reviews of The Cult of Perfection represented by one-star ratings have reached 412 last Friday. Only 12 reviews were three stars and above, while 48 were two stars. It’s also interesting that the book was tagged with the keyword “ignorant” 929 times, 744 for “garbage” and hypocrisy,” and 710 for “hack” and “hypocrite.”

As an act of retaliation, most of the reviews were in the same vein as Lawrence’s comments on Mass Effect – bad reviews came from people who never read the book.