Two German states have drafted a bill which would ban all video games which allow a player to inflict "cruel violence on humans or human-looking characters". This would mean a ban in all FPS games along with almost all MMORPG's in Germany, crippling the nations gaming economy and closing many German Counter Strike teams.
Germany already has the toughest game restrictions in the world and GoW has already been banned in the country but these new laws take the ban to a whole new level. The new laws come as a consequence of an attack on a school by a Counter Strike player which ended in his suicide.
If one thing comes from this, it makes Jack Thompson look like a pussy cat!
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.
tech is different because they buy threats and then kill them. Twitter bought Vine and did nothing with it. Despite people seemingly liking it. Could've had tiktok a decade before bytedance. go figure.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
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With articles like these cant you tag the games mentioned so that we can know ahead of time if there’s a spoiler to avoid?
Not clicking on your article otherwise.
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But they probably wont let you hunt for any endangered or protected animals.
I forgot to mention on the article, it also bans development of the "violent" games so how will this affect the development of Crysis?
Viva La Revolution! If I lived in Germany I'd be going nuts.
I'm all for keeping games like GoW, Rule of Rose or Mahjong from minors. Right now in germany its a little bit like porn. Its allowed to be sold if the one buying it is 18 or older. You arent allowed to show it to minors thus having public ads for it is forbidden too.
Lets constuct an example with porn. Watching porn disturbs kids into rapists. Thus porn is responsible for all the rapists here in germany. The only effective way is to ban porn in germany and prohibit the filming of porn.
So everyone owning porn would be criminal ( including politicians ).
So if politicians would play as many video games as they watch porn we wouldnt have to face the threat of a ban here in germany
lame
right now it is only possible to ban a game if it violates our laws. Most famous example is Caste Wolfenstein which would violate the restriction of showing nazi symbols (only exception for that restriction is art and documentaries).
If a game/movie/book features simply violence it is added to the index which means it can still be sold if you are 18
more on the topic here
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