Versagen: German Anti-Game Protest Falls Flat
The German government hasn’t had the greatest of relationship’s with computer games, even going so far as to raid Crytek’s German operations with over one hundred flak-jacketed riot police and recently trying to pass a bill that could ban violent video games from being produced in the country, a move that could force beleaguered developer Crytek to leave Germany. However the German population doesn’t seem to mirror it’s leader’s views, with over 60,000 people petitioning against the ban and with Germany overtaking the UK to be Europe’s biggest game market.
However, every country has its crackpots, such as the German activist group ‘Aktionsbündnis Amoklauf Winnenden’, who announced that they were holding a game burning event, rather reminiscent of book burnings, and invited everyone to turn in their “killer” violent video games in the name of all that is good and pure. Unfortunately for the group, things didn’t turn out as spectacularly as planned, with only a few games being left in the massive container that was used.
Tempted to burn all your games? Tell us your pyromaniac desires in the comments below.
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11 Responses to “Versagen: German Anti-Game Protest Falls Flat”
LOL. Guess they wasted some money on dumpster rental
next time get a head count on who is comming before you get a container.
I doubt there were even games inside those cases lol
lol wow i bet only crappy games were there too
1st of all who the hell would burn a game, u could sell it instead and 2nd if people actually threw their games in there other people like me would have probably picked it up; free games=win
EPIC FAIL!
Hah! They even paid an artist to paint the side of the container. What a waste!
The funniest part is if they had gotten tons of games to burn, they would have all died from toxic fumes, so really this is an act of god.
lol. I won’t even burn my Bionic Commando. Even if it was a really disappointment even though i bought it for only $20.
Wow. Germany is really insecure after the whole Nazi/Hitler/Take Over the World debacle of WWII.
An open letter to the German people:
Germany, it’s OK, you don’t have to harbor these insecurities anymore. We all know that it wasn’t Germany that was bad, but Hitler and his looney followers. That’s like saying the KKK represents all White people; they don’t. So you don’t have to always be front and center at the whole “violent video games” debate all the time and trying to prove you guys are all about extreme pacifism.
Oh yeah, and you might want to reconsider the whole burning-of-what-you-disagree-with route of action. That’s one thing the Nazis did do, so if you’re trying to separate yourselves from that sort of thing it’s best not to duplicate it. Good luck!
^Cool story, Bro