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I believe this is quite relevant as well.

But it eased over the last couple of years.

How so? Even cartoony games like Team Fortress 2 still can't show any body parts.

http://www.dorkly.com/post/809...

A common theme in Germany is that any game that involves killing Nazis has to replace the Nazis with some other group. They just don't like it when people pretend to kill Nazis I guess.

no publisher tries to challenge that unconstitutional ban.

That would probably cost the publisher more than what their game would even make in Germany. Besides, the EU gives Germany explicit rights to engage in censorship of practically any kind. Article 10 of the EU human rights convention spells this out. Section 1 says you have full freedom of speech, whereas section 2 says "lol jk, we put really vague rules in place here, such as protecting "morality", that gives your country enough of a loophole to censor whatever the hell they want."

The antifa is not responsible for game censoring.

I never said they were, dummy.

On the other hand, while I would not ban the game I still find it tasteless. Going postal was dark humour. This is meant as a simulation without the comic relief.

While I don't know anything about this game, it would be absurd for any country to ban it.

Same here. Even 2D version!

FYI, Wolf3D is in this game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... from http://www.dorkly.com/post/632... ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... from http://www.dorkly.com/post/632...

As for the always-on requirement, sure, you can play the pedant by pointing out it only needed to phone home once a day rather than constantly, but that's pointless, since it does nothing to address why the requirement was such a source of contention. The reason it was annoying was because it immediately eliminated a number of valid and legitimate use cases in which gamers wouldn't have a regular connection to the Internet. In the armed forces? Too bad. Internet down for a few days? Too bad. Just moved? Too bad. Traveling? Too bad. Out at sea? Too bad. Vacationing in your summer cabin? Too bad. Don't want to connect devices that have no practical need to be online? Too bad. Don't think a company has any business tracking what you're doing with offline, disc-based, single-player games? Too bad.

Well said. I think a lot of folks (apparently including MS execs) tend to fall into a bubble of sorts where they assume that since *they* have ubiquitous access to extremely fast, always-on internet, then *everyone* has access to extremely fast, always-on internet. It's certainly true that *most* people do at this point, but the fact that MS execs basically flipped the bird at anyone who didn't certainly didn't endear them to potential consumers. One more example: my brother works on a tug in Alaska - they currently have a 360 console in their boat, and the original Xbone plan would have ensured that they couldn't use it.

Interestingly, this seems to be in midst of Microsoft's "arrogant" phase (well, more arrogant than usual) - the same time period in which they also dismissed customer feedback about Windows 8 usability. Having seen MS from the inside several times in the past, Adam Orth's comments don't seem out of line for an exec, except that most MS execs have the brains not to post things like that publicly. From his twitter history, Mr Orth obviously enjoyed trolling the internet, yet somehow seemed surprised when the internet eventually raged back. It seems that MS as a company finally figured out that even *they* can't afford to ignore so much consumer feedback or openly mock their customers, and seem to be taking a slightly more humble approach, at least in public. As bad as they are, could you imagine what MS would be like without competition from Sony? Oh, yeah, I can. Just think of the cable companies.

I'm like you - own all three last gen consoles (and all three before that), and none of the current gen. For the first time, my first console might be a Playstation rather than an Xbox, but it will probably depend on who gets the first must-have game.

Everyone in a high-profile position should learn from this, but it seems like the Internet has a special hatred for people that mess with their gaming. One recent example is EA's two-time "worst company in America" award from the Consumerist.

Really? Worst company in America? Worse than Haliburton? Worse than Bank of America? Worse than ExxonMobil?

http://www.dorkly.com/article/51363/eas-reponse-to-being-named-the-worst-company-in-america - Totally fake reply letter, but puts things in perspective. Don't fuck with the Internet's vidja games or we will rate you worse than murderers, thieves, and mass-poisoners.

Additionally, game companies' bottom lines can be made or broken by fan rage, so they tend to take more dramatic action about an employee who shits the bed on a social network.

http://www.dorkly.com/comic/41589/rpg-lady-armor

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These accusations are retarded in a level that shows how blind these groups are to their cause. I thought their cause was to reduce animals getting hurt. Not pixels on computer monitors.