Political Correctness in PC games

[The Mad Monk]

You have to remember, we enjoy re-enacting our own Civil War.

[raghar]

I WANNA FUNDAMETALISM in Civ. Civ isn't nice without it.
And when we will see some game about 9... It could be fun terrorist simulator. Wipe US from the earth.

There is reason why some of my games would be ilegal is several mostly democratic countries. Some people like laws I like art.

[Giancarlo]

The origins of the swastika:

http://www.luckymojo.com/swastika.html

The nazis just gave it a bad name.

[Dauphin]

The Commando series show many Swastika all over the place. Adds more fun to the game when you knife the Nazi soldiers.

[Kropotkin]

Imran: I'd say you're wrong. Swedish law doesn't state that a swastika in itself is 'hate speech' or something like that. There was a controversial court decision from 1996 that ruled against wearing a number of symbols as a political statement for racial superiority or racial hate. AFAIK it has to do with the german market in this case.

[Az]

Fallout was awesome... though I never became a 'child killer'

That's right. I always just kicked one of them gently, and let cassidy finish them off with the Pancor Jackhammer.

[Spiffor]

I have patched my French copy of Fallout 2 to have children in. It was a possible tweak, although not advocated by Interplay

Edit : in Germany, there are now new laws regarding videogames. The brainless cencorship is to stop, but it is now illegal to sell games to too young children (the legal age changes depending of the game : Civ3 is allowed from 3 years-old on, Counter Strike is only allowed to 18+ people)

[Imran Siddiqui]

There was a controversial court decision from 1996 that ruled against wearing a number of symbols as a political statement for racial superiority or racial hate.

How does that contradict my statement that the swastika is hate speech in Sweden and thus can't be used? It is a political statement for racial superiority (ie, hate speech).

[Kropotkin]

It's hatespeech if you wear it on your clothes as a statement for white supremacy etc. It doesn't say something about using it in any other context as in a text book about the war or in a computer game. If it was the explicit intent of paradox to spread ideas about arian racial superiority it would be a problem. Considering how my red army crushed the nazi pigs in my last game that's not the case.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Yes, but the one main problem is that you can have the Nazis take over the world. I'm sure they didn't want to take any chances.

[Kropotkin]

I would think that they where much more concerned with the german market.

[Imran Siddiqui]

They may have been, but it isn't like it is HARD to change that.

I mean, they have a German language game, just take out the swastika for that one. I'm sure they were concerned about home laws too.

[Guynemer]

Originally posted by Dissident
actually most leftists feel it is ok to kill children under certain circumstances (like you are mentally retarded, or just depressed). But that doesn't really belong in this thread, so I won't continue.

I beg your pardon?

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Guynemer


I beg your pardon?

Don't mind Diss, I think he's mentally retarded himself. We leftists should have offed him years ago!

[Skanky Burns]

In Grand Theft Auto 3, the Australian version removed sex from the game in a bid to remove sexual violence. You see, you could use a hooker and then mug her afterwards to get your money back.

It is easy to get around though, just by changing your location settings in windows.