This is fucking bullshit, my main beef is with japan, what a bunch of ass holes.(talking about their government) I live in the US so this doesnt affect me, but it still pisses me off with this censorship crap.
Dead Space
Game » consists of 13 releases. Released Oct 14, 2008
Engineer Isaac Clarke battles a polymorphic virus-like alien infestation that turns human corpses into grotesque undead alien monsters called "Necromorphs" while trying to survive on board an infested interstellar mining ship named the USG Ishimura.
Banned in Japan, Germany, and China!
This is shacknews quoting destructoid quoting Andrew Green, community manager of Dead Space. And he got his facts wrong. EA has already denied this.
Gah. Furthermore, there is no banning of games in Germany. Jesus Christ. Some games are not released because they would get too high a rating to be commercially successfull. This is a choice of the publisher, not of the government. The german government has officially recognized video games as objects of cultural value, and just recently reinforced the statement that violent games will not be forbidden. Even if a publisher decides to not release an official german version, most retail stores store and sell the austrian german version, which is legal. German government neither censors nor bans games or movies. All they do is make sure that violent games are not sold or advertised to minors. And because of that, some games won't get published. By the publisher. Because they fear for their income.
I imagine it's the same with Japan: The publisher deciding not to spend money in advertising and publishing because they fear a strict rating and low sales. NOT a government telling companies what they can release and what they can't!
China may be a different story, though.
"Why does it make you so angry if it doesn't affect you?"People being denied good games?
Meowayne said:
"Um, the German government has banned many games for depicting violence against other human beings before...but it's good to know that the German government wasn't involved this time...This is shacknews quoting destructoid quoting Andrew Green, community manager of Dead Space. And he got his facts wrong. EA has already denied this.
Gah. Furthermore, there is no banning of games in Germany. Jesus Christ. Some games are not released because they would get too high a rating to be commercially successfull. This is a choice of the publisher, not of the government. The german government has officially recognized video games as objects of cultural value, and just recently reinforced the statement that violent games will not be forbidden. Even if a publisher decides to not release an official german version, most retail stores store and sell the austrian german version, which is legal. German government neither censors nor bans games or movies. All they do is make sure that violent games are not sold or advertised to minors. And because of that, some games won't get published. By the publisher. Because they fear for their income.
I imagine it's the same with Japan: The publisher deciding not to spend money in advertising and publishing because they fear a strict rating and low sales. NOT a government telling companies what they can release and what they can't!
China may be a different story, though."
And in other news...is it banned in Australia? I would be amazed if it wasn't!!!
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