Counter-Strike and EverQuest Banned in Brazil

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This is two-weeks-old news, but nevertheless:

AFP said:
Brazil bans popular video games seen to incite violence
Jan 18, 2008

RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) — Brazil this week imposed a ban on popular role-playing computer games "Counter-Strike" and "EverQuest," claiming they incited violence and were "harmful to consumers' health."

The federal prohibition on the sale of the games was being applied across the country, the official consumer protection agency in the central state of Goias said on its website Thursday.

Both games allow players, typically teenage boys, to connect online to fantasy worlds where they interact with other players, form groups and carry out joint missions usually involving combat.

"Counter-Strike," a first-person-view shoot-'em-upper based on the motor powering the popular "Half-Life" game, requires participants to choose a role as either a masked terrorist or an anti-terrorist officer before going forth with an ever-sophisticated array of weapons.

An adapted version in Brazil permitted players to take on the perspective of either a police officer or a narcotrafficker in Rio de Janeiro's infamously crime-ridden slums.

"EverQuest" is a swords-and-spells game in the mold of "Lord of the Rings" in which human or elvish or other imaginary characters go on joint adventures to gain treasure and increase their avatar's abilities.

Both began in 1999 and have since developed huge worldwide followings.

Some psychologists have described them as addictive as drugs. A few players have turned professional, earning money from powerful characters they sell, or from the auction of hard-to-win virtual items.

The ban was ordered in October 2007 by a Brazilian federal court, but was not immediately implemented.

The judge, Carlos Alberto Simoes, ruled that the games encouraged "the subversion of public order, were an attack against the democratic state and the law and against public security."
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SuAside said:
haha, oho, wow.

that'll help for sure.
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LMAO! yeah... I'm sure Brazil has violence and civil-unrest because of Everquest....... LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
 
BHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA I'm going to ask my brother in law what he thinks! He's from Sao Palo.
 
Man, I recall Sweden wanted to do the same (or did?), but they wanted to ban ALL computer games, because as they stated it - they can't tell the diffrence between gambling and computer games. I'm not 100% sure about this, though, it was some years back.

As for this ban.....another example of irresponsibility. Or the inability to admit to one's failures, thus looking for someone to blame for them.

Ah, feels like home.
 
Ravager69 said:
Man, I recall Sweden wanted to do the same (or did?), but they wanted to ban ALL computer games, because as they stated it - they can't tell the diffrence between gambling and computer games. I'm not 100% sure about this, though, it was some years back.

As for this ban.....another example of irresponsibility. Or the inability to admit to one's failures, thus looking for someone to blame for them.

Ah, feels like home.
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Isn't that in Greece?
 
Ravager69 said:
Man, I recall Sweden wanted to do the same (or did?), but they wanted to ban ALL computer games, because as they stated it - they can't tell the diffrence between gambling and computer games. I'm not 100% sure about this, though, it was some years back.
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It's disgusting to see those cultural bullies toying with people's lives...
Playing with them just because they have power :evil: ...
 
SuAside said:
i say we ban religion before we ban video games. who's with me?
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I talked with a girl that wants to kill 80% of earth's population because they aren't Christian enough, so I agree with you :D .
 
Sorrow said:
SuAside said:
i say we ban religion before we ban video games. who's with me?
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I talked with a girl that wants to kill 80% of earth's population because they aren't Christian enough, so I agree with you :D .
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hey, at least it'd be a better world, right?

you go, girl!
 
The reason for trying to ban CS was a map called Rio that is placed in a shantytown. They say the game teaches terrible things like guerrilla techniques to combat the police in Rio de Janeiro.

Actually I haven't tried to shoot anyone today. Maybe I should click on the Steam icon and go for a walk later.
 
They banned the trade of CS, though they didn't ban half-life itself :roll:

Lan houses that have the game aren't forced to unninstall it.
 
Duccini said:
The reason for trying to ban CS was a map called Rio that is placed in a shantytown. They say the game teaches terrible things like guerrilla techniques to combat the police in Rio de Janeiro.

Actually I haven't tried to shoot anyone today. Maybe I should click on the Steam icon and go for a walk later.
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never played it. it's not even a default map, is it?

Duccini said:
They banned the trade of CS, though they didn't ban half-life itself :roll:

Lan houses that have the game aren't forced to unninstall it.
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that wont do much good now will it? CS 1.6 comes for free after all...
 
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