The assault on video games


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We already have a movie-style ratings system for games. In fact, it's even more in-depth than the movie rating system.

This wasn't about that; it was about putting absolutely ridiculous legal restrictions on certain types of games (whatever was deemed offensive; it was never defined clearly), involving putting gigantic warning stickers across the game cases and fining people a ton of money for selling games to minors.

It basically treated mature games like cigarettes, if not worse.

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Fuck I hate lobby groups. People are already using the Norway tragedy to further their anti video game agenda, because the guy played WoW and CoD.

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I tell my friends I'm busy with work so can't go out for the next 6 weeks due to the big project I have, does that mean work should be banned because I use it as an excuse to plan an attack? Christ.

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Fuck I hate lobby groups. People are already using the Norway tragedy to further their anti video game agenda, because the guy played WoW and CoD.

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I tell my friends I'm busy with work so can't go out for the next 6 weeks due to the big project I have, does that mean work should be banned because I use it as an excuse to plan an attack? Christ.

What does WoW have to do with any kind of real world violence? I can sort of understand people trying to link games with guns to violence because they actually exist. Maybe the moment I can hurl fireballs from my hands I'll understand.

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Sadly it's true. The latest state Premier hear just passed a law banning swearing. Fine and all jail time. And don't get me started on porn being illegal, no adult game classification, having an internet black list.....

How have you not had a revolution yet? I'd have thought that came with banning porn.

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Well you can't sell X rated porn in any of the sates, but possession is legal. And the two territories sell it and sell it via mail order, so it's here, no one does anything about it, but in the most populist areas, it's illegal to sell it.

And that poll link, the wording has been changed without a note saying they've done it.

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The guy said himself that he used MW2 to train himself for the attacks. He also said he used WoW so I guess he planned on leading an army of Orcs to invade Norway or something. I still don't get the connection there.

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Crazy people are going to do crazy things regardless of any video game they play, book they read, or movie they watch.

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Yeah the WoW was what he used as an excuse to be socially absent. To cover what he was really doing, planning the attacks. He could have easily said he's started a new dotcom business and all his time is spent on that. Or he's taken up ballroom dancing and is training 4 times a week. He could have said he's joined the freemasons for christ sake, there are a million things he could have used as a cover, but because he chose WoW all of a sudden it's evil video games.

As for the MW2 thing to be used as training, sorry, but in real life, people don't hold a gun in their lap with a hand on either side of it, so I don't see how it's training for anything.

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Norway store cans 51 brands after Oslo, Utøya murders

Coop Norway has announced it is to stop carrying 51 gaming brands and toys previously available to customers, after the horrific events in Oslo and on Utøya, including games CoD4: Modern Warfare and World of Warcraft – titles which the perpetrator Anders Behring Breivik claims to have actively played.

According to a report in Norwegian newspaper Rogalands Avis, Geir Inge Stokke, director of Coop Norway Retail, said the retail giant is temporarily removing the games out of “consideration for those affected,” by last week’s murders.

“The decision to remove the games was made around the time we realized the scope of the attack,” he said. “Others are better suited than us, to point to the negative effects of games like these. At the moment it’s [appropriate] for us to take them down. I wouldn’t be surprised if others do the same.

“We have to think very carefully about when to bring these goods back. The economy involved is of no importance.”

Breivik, the man behind the attacks, mentioned in his “manifesto” time playing WoW and even went so far as to describe Modern Warfare as “training” tool in his “plan.”

Games confirmed as being removed from shelves by Gamers Globe include: Homefront, Black Ops, Modern Warfare 2, World at War, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Sniper Ghost Warrior, and Counter-Strike Source (thanks, distraet).

Toys that “look or function as weapons” have also been removed.

http://www.vg247.com/2011/07/29/coop-norway-to-remove-51-titles-after-oslo-and-ut%C3%B8ya-murders/

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Seven News Reports NSW Attorney General Wants Games Like GTAIV Banned

A pathetically ill-researched segment on Seven News last night claims NSW Attorney General Greg Smith wants games like Grand Theft Auto IV banned.

The segment used a still from the sex scene minigame from seven-year-old video game GTA: San Andreas, a mode removed from the game before sale and only accessible via an unofficial software patch, during its argument. It also made links between violent video games and the Norway massacre and claimed "England and Norway have banned similar games."

This is misleading. Grand Theft Auto IV is rated 18 by the British Board of Film Classification, and is not banned. Grand Theft Auto IV is rated 18+ by the Interactive Software Federation of Europe's Pan European Game Information system. Norway officially supports PEGI and is represented in the PEGI Council, although there is no specific legislative basis.

Most confusing was Smith's position, with Seven reporting that despite the fact that he has approved the introduction of an R18+ catergory for video games he still wants games like Grand Theft Auto IV banned.

We contacted the Attorney General's office where a spokeperson on hand for clarification.

"We are still firmly committed to the R18+ classification but we don't want any dilution of the Refused Classification category, and games should be assessed accordingly," he said.

"Obviously the Attorney General's expressing his opinion of the game, but obviously these guidelines will be developed over time. His main concern is that if something is grotesquely violent and it merits Refused Classification that it should be refused classification... but we're still on board with R18+; we want that to go ahead."

http://games.ign.com/articles/121/1211580p1.html?utm_campaign=twposts&utm_source=twitter

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