Germany to forbid the production of violent games?

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ban paintball?! rotflmao....

[Jetsetlemming]

When I was 12 my older brother shot me in the ass with a paintball gun out of nowhere. It hurt

Have Germany also banned lightguns yet? Or arcade booths with guns?

[Jetsetlemming]

Rock Paper Shotgun just linked this in an article on this topic.

Very relevant.

Longer version:

"Broadcast from the fucking Lego Dimension"

[Taylor]

Charlie Brooker is great. Newswipe and Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle are the only two shows on TV I've enjoyed recently.

Kind of off-topic, but more entertaining than people stuck in the mid-90's trying to ban video games again.

[FrieChamp]

I was going to open a thread about this and then I remembered for how long this topic is being brought up by politicians and nothing actually happens. Take the paintball ban for example (to non-germans reading this: yes german politicians actually decided to ban paintball for the same reasons as they want to ban violent videogames) - big agenda setting by the press, huge uproar in the paintball community (for obvious reasons) and the result? They silently scrapped the ban under the table again.

yeah but it never got to the point were all 16 ministers agreed on the ban and were this close to making it a law. it might actually become a reality this time around

If they actually go through with it (which I do not expect) then they won't keep male teenagers from playing these games, they would just alienate them further. Anyway...idiots...

[-HP-]

They would just warez it! lol

[Jetsetlemming]

":3mb1s4nc]They would just warez it! lol

It's what they already do anyway, because the alternative is censored versions

[Sentura]

if this ever sets in motion, will it have an effect on german studios?

[Steppenwolf]

I guess this would also criminalize modders who work on fps stuff.

Fucking retarded.

[kleinluka]

It's time for all the german modders to make use of their EU passport and move to Austria (or the netherlands )

[Deathy]

if this ever sets in motion, will it have an effect on german studios?

[Psy]

Charlie Brooker is great. Newswipe and Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle are the only two shows on TV I've enjoyed recently.

God, yes. I absolutely adore Screenwipe/Newswipe. I really look forward to Gameswipe.

[kleinluka]

if this ever sets in motion, will it have an effect on german studios?

Sentura doesn't speak german as far as i know

[Deathy]

if this ever sets in motion, will it have an effect on german studios?

Sentura doesn't speak german as far as i know

Haha good point.. sadly, theres no interview in english.

basically they say that they will move out of germany, if they forbid the production of violent games.

What else is left anyways.

[-HP-]

I don't think It's good for the German economy for Crytek (HQ) to move to another country... they are not exactly just another small company.