China Bans 50 Games

Stargoat writes "The official mainland Chinese news agency, Xinhau, is reporting that China is banning 50 gaming titles. These titles include Battlefield Vietnam, The Sims 2, and FIFA 2005. A similar game banning event occurred six months ago in China, but not to this scale."

Comments

FIFA 2005

[CoMmEnT23]

Last time I played FIFA 2005, I had to turn away because the gore was so bad. I mean soccer, geez, what's next, a ban on any E rated games?

Capitalist Overtones

[Anonymous Coward]

Battlefield Vietnam makes sense from the perspective of Bejing, but the Sims? Maybe the strict control of your people hits a little too close to home :-)

Sims 2?

[Rahga]

Well... if women in Sims 2 are allowed to have more than one child, then maybe the Chinese people will start getting ideas.... The sims could lead a revolution, and their government simply can't allow that. :)

Re:Sounds like a piracy crackdown, not a ban.

[Anonymous Coward]

There might be a chance that FIFA has a country listed that China doesn't recognize as sovereign, but I'm not sure which one that would be (I don't even play FIFA

Yes.. They fail to recognise that Cupertino and Vancouver are not part of China.

In PRC

[ackthpt]

Government bans Sims 2, they don't like competition when trying to run the lives of 1.5 billion people.

Slashdot got the headline wrong

[snakecoder]

It should be China promoting 50 new games

AP- In a flash of brilliant marketing, China has given 50 games the kiss of life by banning them. Young students were clamoring to see the list so they could figure out what games they wanted to get ahold of first. One unnamed student was quoted as saying "I've never had a way to find out what games would be good. This list is awesome".