Well, though belated, but here you have the third part of my material about computer censorship in different countries of the world. Today we will study the most absurd and most incomprehensible prohibitions in the framework of individual countries.
I will make a reservation right away, the games that will be discussed is my subjective choice. No need to write in the comments "Where is this?". I tried to make a sample of game itself, in terms of prohibitions, well, I also paid attention to the volume of the Titles. These games are still banned somewhere, and somewhere the publisher corrected everything. But, about everything in order. By the way, the first two parts you will find in this and this topics
Football Manager 2005
The region of the ban: China
For those who do not cut at all in sports simulators, I will explain that any football manager, especially so shaggy years, is essentially the same FIFA only if you remove the whole game from it to football. That is, you are building a team based on statistical calculations, standings, and all other things that you were shown in the film "The person who changed everything". It would seem how the game got to the ban?
Easily! Will answer you in the Ministry of Culture of China. With the official wording "causes damage to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country". After the game entered the Chinese market, local officials noted that in the simulator such territories as Hong Kong, Macau, Tibet and Taiwan (Chinese Taypia) are shown as absolutely independent countries with their internal structure. It will declare this through the game, this is the same as in our domestic reality to argue about the belonging of Crimea. Unacceptable, in general.
The game was quickly banned in digital stores, but they did not have time to remove the entire circulation of retail. As a result, a disc with football manager 2005 can still be bought on the black market. However, the fight against the game was not comic. For the distribution of the game, a total of fines of $ 3.5 million were written out, and 12 providers who could not prevent downloading the game in the digital segment received license review and were closed.
Chinese gamers were so unhappy that in 2004, according to the results of the year, the government reported on strong protests among young people related to the game.
Fallout 3
The region of the ban: Australia
Yes, yes, it would seem, the epoch-making creation of the “gazebo” also fell under the dragon prohibitions of the Green Continent. All because of the extremely unusual system for awarding the rating of games and films in the country.
For a long time, the most tough rating in the country was Ma 15+. That is, admitted to people over 15 years old. If the game is guided by the initially different age cohort, which is already older and more psychologically more stable, then the game simply did not receive a rating. And according to local laws, this is an equivalent ban on sale.
The motivation is also amazing, according to which the game did not go through the qualification. Australian censors drew attention to … chemicals in the game, including medical. In their opinion, it was a direct analogy of drugs. That is, you want to shoot in the face of explosive? Please! Put yourself, or shoot at someone with a trick? Not so fast!
The problem was aggravated https://casinosnotongamcare.co.uk/review/love-casino/ by the fact that local chemistry not only looked like real, but also caused various side effects, positive and negative, including addiction. It was laid down in the game mechanics. As a result, Befesda remade the game for 9 months to get access to Australia.
Mass Effect
The region of the ban: Singapore
Singapore has always been, is and remains not the LGBT-FREEMENTENTENTENTENTENT COUNTION in the world. But how about the expense of the game at the expense of one scene of sexual proximity between a person and a gumanoid? "Yes, we can"-shove Obama in the city-state.
The official ban on the game read the following "for demonstrating the intimacy of two lesbians". And all because in the game from BioWare, choosing a female alter ego Sheppard, you can enter into an intimacy with an alien, which looks like a girl.
But, in fact, we are talking about Azari. She represents the race of aliens who have only one floor. But who needs to understand the lore of the game?
After the local gamers raised the buch and explained what and what, the government allowed the game, but put it M-18 rating. Interestingly, this is a rating for films, and the scandal around the game led the local authorities to the decision to draw up a rating system for computer games. In general, almost a revolution. What’s in sex, what is in the country!
Left 4 Dead 2
The region of the ban: Australia
Back to our rams. More precisely, to the kangaroo. The story with Folych did not teach anything local power, and as a result, a zombie symbol in which you can cut off your heads, and where wounds and corpses are shown in detail, the country was also not allowed. The reason is the same-the game is 18+ around the world, but for the M-15 rating is too much.
Here, the consequences to which the ban brought to. Epic Zombie Lurch and 170 of its activists in November last year even entered a street protest in Sydney, with a demand to introduce the R18 rating in the country+. By the end of this year, this legislative initiative should be considered in the parliament of the country, and, perhaps, after that, the Austilians will cease to be soft and fluffy.
Pokemon Games series
The region of the ban: Saudi Arabia
Unfortunately, even a cute and pleasant world of Pokemon is not safe from Domoklov Sword on the ban on games. In 2001, all Pokemon franchise products were banned in Saudi Arabia for the propaganda of gambling, Zionism and other religious intolerance. It is claimed that the games contain crosses (Christianity), triangles (masses) and "Star of David", and since a number of them are card games, they are gambling.
You will laugh, but in 1999, two nine -year -old boys sued Nintendo because they argued that the card game with Pokemon caused their game addiction. In general, the madness of the Arab world, as it is
Battlefield 3
The region of the ban: Iran
The one who played knows that the plot of the game includes the assault on Tehran, the capital of Iran. It goes without saying that this was not ignored by the authorities of the Muslim Republic, and the game was prohibited.
Some newspapers, such as Lebanon Daily Star, reported that the authorities are very, very serious about the ban. The shops in which the games were sold were searched, copies were seized, and, even, it was reported that people were arrested only because they had copies in their hands.
The National Agency FARS (analogue of ITAR-TASS) said that the fictional American-Iranian conflict has strengthened fears and military moods that were already present in society, and thousands of signatures collected online patterns about the prohibition of the simulator.
EA Games, in turn, published its own statement about the prohibition. And after it there was a complete sensation of a panopticum.
Electronics claimed that Battlefield 3 never officially went out in Iran, EA has no distributors or direct retail sellers in the country.Supposedly, copies that were seized by the authorities were pirate.
Although we will be honest when the EA was the last time we generally defended gamers and did something for people, and not for their wallets and reputation?
Everquest
The region of the ban: Brazil
And what about seeing in MMORPG the late 90s, calls to undermine the public system and overthrowing power? And this is not in Russia, again, but in Brazil.
According to the legislative act of 2008, Brazil banned the sale of Everquest from Sony Online Entertainment on the grounds that it encouraged the “Break of Public Order” and carried the “attack on democratic values, the rule of law and public security."
Just for you to understand, we are talking about the incredibly successful MMORPG, released in 1999, where users can play for bards, paladins, wizards and druids, exploring magical lands and all that other else. In addition, according to the Black of the game, all races and nations in the world exist in harmony.
There are no official explanations about the reason for the ban, as well as the news about the upcoming shift of the ban.
Well, friends comrade! Thanks to those who noted my cycle and to all those to whom it seemed interesting. I was also offered to write a text about countries where everything is allowed, and what and how is there.
If you think this topic is interesting – write in the comments. Well, in general, I’m waiting for feedback. All is allian!
* The activities of the International Public Movement of LGBT are recognized as extremist and is prohibited in the Russian Federation