Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Kae'Yoss" data-source="post: 3643613" data-attributes="member: 4134">I doubt that anyone here would blame the game, but I'm sure you know better than anyone here that there are people who will blame games. We don't have the same prejudice against D&amp;D or RPGs here in Germany, I guess mostly because is is virtually unknown here, but we have some &quot;anti-gamist&quot; movement here: The target of this is &quot;killer games&quot;. Mostly First Person Shooters. I stopped counting the number of killing sprees on schools we had, followed by a media frenzy against computer games because those who went postal happened to play them (nevermind that millions of perfectly normal people do so, too), and then the media makes a point of blaming the games, politicians follow, some even stricter laws against such games are publicly demanded, and so on.In fact, I was quite surprised when there was an incident in a school less than 50km from here and they didn't blame computer games. (Some guy shot his ex GF in the leg and fled into the city, where he shot himself when the police caught up with him. I think they later said that he had a incurable disease that would have killed him anyway, and that this, combined with rampant jealousy, was the reason why he did it).Hereabouts, in order to get a decent shooter that isn't kindergardenised, you'll have to buy a foreign version (which is, of course, imported, so the price is often higher than that for local games), since local games are censured - often even those who'd have been cleared for adults of age 18+ only, anyway. I don't have much hope for living to see the day when games will be blamed for all sorts of crimes first, instead of looking for the actual problem. Even if I lived another hundred years...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kae'Yoss, post: 3643613, member: 4134"] I doubt that anyone here would blame the game, but I'm sure you know better than anyone here that there are people who will blame games. We don't have the same prejudice against D&D or RPGs here in Germany, I guess mostly because is is virtually unknown here, but we have some "anti-gamist" movement here: The target of this is "killer games". Mostly First Person Shooters. I stopped counting the number of killing sprees on schools we had, followed by a media frenzy against computer games because those who went postal happened to play them (nevermind that millions of perfectly normal people do so, too), and then the media makes a point of blaming the games, politicians follow, some even stricter laws against such games are publicly demanded, and so on. In fact, I was quite surprised when there was an incident in a school less than 50km from here and they didn't blame computer games. (Some guy shot his ex GF in the leg and fled into the city, where he shot himself when the police caught up with him. I think they later said that he had a incurable disease that would have killed him anyway, and that this, combined with rampant jealousy, was the reason why he did it). Hereabouts, in order to get a decent shooter that isn't kindergardenised, you'll have to buy a foreign version (which is, of course, imported, so the price is often higher than that for local games), since local games are censured - often even those who'd have been cleared for adults of age 18+ only, anyway. I don't have much hope for living to see the day when games will be blamed for all sorts of crimes first, instead of looking for the actual problem. Even if I lived another hundred years... [/QUOTE]

Verification