Apologies for not speaking German: Ban on Games?
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Master0fCeremony,
Posted on: 2009-08-06 07:18 in Zukunft (EU)
In Germany we have a good old saw for this but its hard to translate, it's something like
"Things are never as bad as they seem.".
There are some plans from the politicians to ban action games but they call this games "killer games" and i think CoX is not on that list, so there i see no problem.
Maybe in an other way there could be a problem, some politicians want to increase the age limit for MMOG based on addiction to a minimum age of 18. So that is not really a problem because 95% of the german community is old enough.
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Originally Posted by Master0fCeremony
In Germany we have a good old saw for this but its hard to translate, it's something like
"Things are never as bad as they seem.". There are some plans from the politicians to ban action games but they call this games "killer games" and i think CoX is not on that list, so there i see no problem. Maybe in an other way there could be a problem, some politicians want to increase the age limit for MMOG based on addiction to a minimum age of 18. So that is not really a problem because 95% of the german community is old enough. |
Thank you for clarifying the issue a little
I'm happy to hear that it's not as bad as some sites are making out.
Eco.
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The Echo, Arc ID 1688 (5mish, easy, drama)
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
[The Incarnate System is] Jack Emmert all over again, only this time it's not "1 hero = 3 white minions" it's "1 hero = 3 white rocks."
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We have a few overzealous politicians and district attorneys who love to rage against video games, but a lot of the foreign news coverage is blown out of proportions or is simply a rumour (like the "the 5th Column was removed from CoH because of german laws" legend)
What concerned me this year after the Winnenden school shooting was a bill to ban paintball. Thankfully the politicians reconsidered it after massive protests.
My apologies for not speaking German.
I am British, I live in Poland, and I play on the US servers. There have been reports on a few sites of Germany's interior ministers collectively asking the government to ban action video games. As the EU CoH servers are hosted in Germany, this may be worrying.
Does anyone here know any more about this? How true is it? If they do ban such games, is it likely that the servers would get shut down? Obviously it would be a disaster for German players.
Regards,
Eco.
MArcs:
The Echo, Arc ID 1688 (5mish, easy, drama)
The Audition, Arc ID 221240 (6 mish, complex mech, comedy)
Storming Citadel, Arc ID 379488 (lowbie, 1mish, 10-min timed)