Re: soccer moms

They aren't Rockstar's target demographic; they weren't going to buy Rockstar's games anyway, and Rockstar knew that the people who did buy their games (20-something guys) liked the violence. Hence my point.

As far as Dragon Age: Origins goes, that's pretty much the OPPOSITE of an intrusive commercial break. You don't have to talk to the character, and you can pretty much ignore him for the entire game. I suppose that he could have been left out of the game entirely, but, considering that he was advertizing an expansion for the game itself, I think that BioWare had the right to stick him in. It's not like they were forcibly interrupting the game to shill for Pepsi or Reebok.