Comments on: Those silly Germans

By: Vinzenz

Vinzenz — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 05:30:25 +0000

Well I can say as both a german and an ardent fascist, this is plain silly nonsense indeed. Try to remember however, as Volker stated their ‘bans’ are not all the same, although language-wise it does get rolled together once translated. The regulatory bodies that be like the seem to first ‘ban’ a game, and then decide how serious the actual ban should be. Perhaps they ought to pick up a thesaurus before frightening the gaming public even more than they already do, as a lot of the times the ‘ban’ winds up being for advertising and store displays only, they can still be passed towards persons over 18 ‘under the counter’ with the proper IDs. At its heaviest this sort of restriction limits sales to specialty shops and discourages sales at major department chains and the like.

If they really wanted to ban dangerous ‘media’ they would pick on destructive influences such as that damned awful Spock baby book or It Takes A Village. Therefore it seems to be the interactive portion they are afraid of and misunderstand, not the actual violence, political suggestions, or ‘obscene’ materials within.

By: Volker

Volker — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 08:25:07 +0000

First thing, I as a german don’t think that I have to atone for anything.
Second Jericho isn’t banned, if you want it you can buy it. We have laws to protect our children and Jericho isn’t a game that kids should play. If you are over 18 you can go to a game shop and ask them to order that game for you, or you can purchase it on the internet. Advertisement for that game isn’t allowed and the shops cannot display them on the shelfs, if all of this is necessary to protect children is debatable but that doesn’t mean we are fascists.
And third please don’t write hateful propaganda about my country if you don’t know the first thing about it.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:20:26 +0000

Hi Jingo, thanks for this. I worked with Germans in our industry for many years. They are just as enthusiastic about the games and the industry as we are. They are also, if anything, far more fed up with their stupid politicians.

By: jingo

jingo — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 04:49:06 +0000

1. Racism and anti-semitism are still prevelant in Germany.

2. Germans LOVE games like CounterStrike.

3. Germans should not shoot up their schools.

4. Germans should instead go to http://www.GetGosu.com and get paid to play CounterStrike professionally.

5. Again, please don’t shoot up your school.

6. I, nor the industry that I work in, can accept any blame for your immorality.