Dumb germanz

[Magyk]

German ministers have today agreed to ban the production and distribution of all violent video games, with the law only having to go through parliament in the next few weeks.

According to german website Chip Online and supported by Spiegel Online, ministers of the interior of all sixteen German federal states came together for a conference today in Bremerhaven where they agreed to forbid the production and distribution of all video games "where the main part is to realistically play the killing of people or other cruel or unhuman acts of violence against humans or manlike characters."

The country has been infamously hard on violent video games before now, but an outright ban would result in a huge loss for the video games industry in one of its most successful European countries.

The law would result in no Call of Duty, no God of War, no Crysis, no World of Warcraft, no BioShock, no Uncharted, and no Grand Theft Auto.

Moreover, since a ban on the production of violent games would also be included in the law, German studios, such as Crytek, would have to outsource development to other countries.

The law is hoped to come into effect before the country's federal elections in September. The minister of the interior of Lower Saxony commented:

"Violent games lower the inhibition level for real violence and spree killers always played such games before they did the crime."

Note the second part of that sentence: "spree killers always played such games before they did the crime." That's quite a statement; one we expect they'd like to support with the German school shootings on March 11th, which were linked to Counterstrike and Far Cry 2.

All violent video games to be banned in Germany - Gamezine.co.uk


Hi <_<

[schrotti]

Been a few days already since they first agreed on it.

[giga]

"spree killers always played such games before they did the crime."

all serial killers are video game nerds?



Hi magyk

[evilwevel]

again with the video games. they should focus on punishing those fucktards who killed people instead of wasting their time on shit like that.

it probably never occurred to them that 90% of the people plays or has played COD4 or any of those popular games. it&#39;s like saying we&#39;re going to make it illegal for mothers to give birth because we have found out that every criminal was born at least once in his life.

[The_Real_PlodeZ]

Wow, who would have ever thought Germans would be anti-violence? :mellow:

[Dro]

Owned.

Damn, that one came out rusty.

[soenne]

Wouldnt be suprised that the EU commission will make a law like this, so we will be stuck with the same crap >.<

[Uzu]

like if that&#39;s going to stop me ^_^

[aligator]

School mobbing and bad parenting are the reasons. Not gaming.

Imagine if like.. 15% of all gamers would be spree killers.. Dayummm

[Uzu]

School mobbing and bad parenting are the reasons. Not gaming.

Imagine if like.. 15% of all gamers would be spree killers.. Dayummm[/b]

come on, who cares, it&#39;s normal in such a country as germany that stupid kids become insane.

[Ethernal]

Yea, so instead of stopping the bullying and subsequent hate for humans remain, just make sure they dont use a 22 button controller to shoot people.

[Kronos]

Ban games and employ all those kids in Heckler & Koch :lol:

[AsSaiLaNT9082]

Well no since there wont be any video games you can almost guarantee the rise of serial killers/rapists.

[Private]

"with the law only having to go through parliament in the next few weeks."

is there even a chance it will pass ? i give a shit about germany but if u guys read half the shit that american senators and congressman propose u&#39;d shit your pants

wat will really blow ur mind is the things that actually pass that are slipped into bills last minute like nancy pelosi banning gardens under marshal law

[Magyk]

Anyone remembers when they tried to do the same thing in babaland?

There was even a joke about that (specially when paja told that in vent):

"So whats u in for?"

"Killing 2 families, raping their dead bodies and setting their pet camel and male pet bellydancer on fire. U?"

"Ko."

It was back then ofc when we needed a whole clan to kill TK