Comments on: Forbidden but not quite? Germany passes new video game distribution legislation

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Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:39:26 +0000

[...] I have written about games politics on this blog before; once praising the state of Delaware launching a campaign to make parents aware that games carry ratings and another time on how Germany passed a new legislation disallowing games on the index to be advertised in shops back i…. [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:08:00 +0000

Meh, the not selling it to minors is fine, but putting it under the counter is just shit.

And as an aside, you can’t do anything about parents buying them for their kids. If it’s someone over 18 paying for it, you have to sell it. No way to prove it’s for their kids. And I know some parents do let their kids buy some M games, but just not certain ones.

By: Cat

Cat — Fri, 16 May 2008 09:10:26 +0000

It just doesn’t make sense, you know?

If they would ban both than fair enough, but this half assed attempt?

By: B0bbyG

B0bbyG — Mon, 12 May 2008 21:22:57 +0000

So let me get this straight – heavily censored (and from the sound of it, quite clumsily, too) 18-rated games are considered worse than 18 rated movies?

That’s messed up. Seriously.

By: Ashish

Ashish — Sun, 11 May 2008 05:59:39 +0000

Lol. You’ll never find it on the shelves.. it was banned. I got it in a 25 CD pack when we bought a Joystick.

By: Cat

Cat — Sat, 10 May 2008 17:26:40 +0000

I don’t know, I never played that game.

But blood is generally removed or has a different colour, like green in a skating game.

By: Ashish

Ashish — Sat, 10 May 2008 07:41:37 +0000

What is it? Are games porn now? UNDER THE TABLE?!! Just because you can’t educate the masses doesn’t mean the masses shouldn’t write. More of the same – old world establishments trying to keep newer technologies under their sway.

Btw, is this the very same country where Carmageddon was released with robots [or Zombies]? Find it hard to believe.