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Bully Banned by Some British Retailers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the obviously-never-played-the-game dept.

stormhair writes "The BBC is reporting that shops in the DSG Group (Currys and PC World) are banning Bully from their shelves. A spokesman says: 'We took a view that because it touches on a sensitive issue — violence in school — that it is not a product we would stock.' DSG has withdrawn other games from their shelves in the past — Hitman and Manhunt."

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  1. PC World and Currys... by LighterShadeOfBlack · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just to clarify, PC World and Currys are NOT major games retailers, Currys is an electrical goods store and PC World is primarily for PC hardware. This isn't much of a blow to Rockstar at all.

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  2. Re:No biggie by Broken+scope · · Score: 2, Informative

    Eh,there has been a roaring discussion on gamepolitics today about this. The store that does this claims it is doing this to help their "Familiy friendly" image.

    Then they take pre-orders for vice city stories, the new scarface game, and the next GTA.

    Family friendly my ass. This is pure knee jerk reaction, it has nothing to do with settign standards.

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  3. Re:-1 Misleading by Broken+scope · · Score: 2, Informative

    It is called canis canum edit (Dog eat Dog) in europe.

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  4. Re:No biggie by LargeWu · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's pretty apparent, they come right out and say it - they object to school violence specifically, rather than violence in general.

  5. Re:No biggie by laxcat · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't know if they're reacting to the game itself or to its (most definitely misinformed) reaction in the public. But misinformed or not, the reason they state for not carrying this game just happens to be true. I played 4 hours or so of the game last night and it most certainly "touches on a sensitive issue -- violence in school." Overblown in the media? You bet. But the simple fact of it is this game has plenty of violence in it. No guns, sure. No one dies, sure. But I've beat up like 20 kids already with pretty much no consequences. Some people in the community might, and justifiably so, take offense to that.

    It should also be noted that a good number of these beatings were required to progress in the game.

    That said, I don't feel as if the US rating of "T for Teen" is wrong. I understand the rating is even a little stiffer in the UK.