Germans shun violent video games
Mon 23 August, 2004 15:13
By Georgina Prodhan
LEIPZIG, Germany (Reuters) - Germans' reluctance to play violent video games and to spend much in a subdued consumer climate are proving stubborn obstacles to the growth of Europe's least-developed games market.
http://www.reuters.c...70§ion=news
#4
Economic Extraordinaire
Posted 23 August 2004 - 03:27 PM
I guess it would be kind of weird playing a military FPS that is aimed at killing your great grandfather.
It seems like they are over-compensating for their past.
Yeah - that would be like the British buying a game about the American Revolution
#10
CAGiversary!
Posted 23 August 2004 - 06:22 PM
what do you expect from a culture who thinks David Hasselhoff is a good entertainer? (No offense to David Hasslehoff fans or Germans)
Dude, it takes REAL talent to drive a talking car and run slow motion on the beach.
and not having a hard on from all the hotties.
#12
Your Tax Dollars At Work
Posted 24 August 2004 - 04:29 AM
Germans don't need violent video games...they have violent disgusting porn instead. *shudders* Maybe they should ban that instead. I don't see how Germans could find anything offensive after putting out bondage scat humilation movies. Ick.
#15
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Posted 27 August 2004 - 05:25 AM
Im mostly German and I dont feel bad killing Germans in WW2 games. Im not entirely German though, and I dont live in Germany.
An old saying about WW II goes that we won because we had better German generals (Eisenhower, for instance) than the Germans.
#16
CAGiversary!
Posted 27 August 2004 - 05:32 AM
This article completely misses that theGerman government spent the 80's training its citizens to get all of their games via imports and piracy.
When I was at Cinemaware we had to produce a special Nazi-free version of Rocket Ranger just for that country. It had altered artwork to change all the uniforms and use a different symbol where swastikas appeared in the original. By the time it was done the story made almost no sense.
It sold badly to say the least.
Strangely enough, we still got plenty of fan mail and tech support letters from German addresses. These should all have gone to Mirrorsoft in the UK if they were owners of the offical German game. It became apparent there were more US imported and pirated copies of Rocket Ranger in Germany than the legal de-Nazi-fied version.
When I was at Cinemaware we had to produce a special Nazi-free version of Rocket Ranger just for that country. It had altered artwork to change all the uniforms and use a different symbol where swastikas appeared in the original. By the time it was done the story made almost no sense.
It sold badly to say the least.
Strangely enough, we still got plenty of fan mail and tech support letters from German addresses. These should all have gone to Mirrorsoft in the UK if they were owners of the offical German game. It became apparent there were more US imported and pirated copies of Rocket Ranger in Germany than the legal de-Nazi-fied version.
#17
CAGiversary!
Posted 30 August 2004 - 01:51 AM
As a German-American (100% American in my heart, but my great grandfather was from the "Home Land") I would like to pass something that my Grandfather once said as he watch me playing Doom: "If Hitler had that maybe he wouldn't have been such an a-hole" Look at the upsurge of Nazi-youth in Germany now, France is a not-too-distant second when it comes to violence against imigrants. I would think if they had an outlet for this anger (in the form of a game that allowed them to kill) it might not be as bad.
#19
Keeper of the CAG Shrine
Posted 30 August 2004 - 06:16 AM
As a German-American (100% American in my heart, but my great grandfather was from the "Home Land") I would like to pass something that my Grandfather once said as he watch me playing Doom: "If Hitler had that maybe he wouldn't have been such an a-hole" Look at the upsurge of Nazi-youth in Germany now, France is a not-too-distant second when it comes to violence against imigrants. I would think if they had an outlet for this anger (in the form of a game that allowed them to kill) it might not be as bad.
#21
Raising 10s on a 3 flush
Posted 30 August 2004 - 06:27 AM
what do you expect from a culture who thinks David Hasselhoff is a good entertainer? (No offense to David Hasslehoff fans or Germans)
Dude, it takes REAL talent to drive a talking car and run slow motion on the beach.
and not having a hard on from all the hotties.
agreed
