Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency is reporting that the government had announced new bans on certain video games. In total, 50 popular titles will be banned from sale and use in China. Xinhua further noted that the move was part of an effort in 2005 to combat "illegal publications". Also affected are "pirated textbooks, electronic publications and illegal journals that will have negative influence on the youth".
Of the 50 games banned, notable titles included Age of Mythology: the Titans, The Sims 2, Manhunt, FIFA 2005, Battlefield Vietnam and Painkiller: Battle out of Hell as well as Conflict Vietnam, Vietcong: Fist Alpha and Devastation.
The Chinese government has called on local departments to confiscate copies currently available, and stop further distribution. Since last year, Game producers have been forced to submit their games to examination before sale in the country to check that they don't contain un-acceptable content.
View: Xinhua Story
Of the 50 games banned, notable titles included Age of Mythology: the Titans, The Sims 2, Manhunt, FIFA 2005, Battlefield Vietnam and Painkiller: Battle out of Hell as well as Conflict Vietnam, Vietcong: Fist Alpha and Devastation.
The Chinese government has called on local departments to confiscate copies currently available, and stop further distribution. Since last year, Game producers have been forced to submit their games to examination before sale in the country to check that they don't contain un-acceptable content.
View: Xinhua Story
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isn't that an educational game?
anatomy & stuff ... ?
"negative influence on the youth" my ass.
and that's excatly the answer
Hehe. My girlfriend was on the organizing commitee
teenage kids building their dream houses and interacting with other virtual people and talking gibberish? whoa, negative influence indeed *sacarsm*
and as with conflict vietnam and stuff? come on man, we can tell the difference whats real and whats not. might as well ban games like counterstrike saying u'll get to play as a terrorist and plant bombs. sheesh. maybe china should go back to playing pac-man.
my 2 cents.
Its China... They can get it through Piracy anyway...
They portray communists as the enemy...I don't think the government wants that!
Thats another reason why warez is good
It's trivial to us (United States) but the Chinese get in a heated tizzy everyday about it.
Welcome to world politics!
As for the other games, it most likely what someone else said, they want their youth to be program...er raised without certain influences.
it's probably this mindset as well as the political reasons (taiwan) mentioned above that spured this decision. 'we don't want a generation of undesirables'. it's almost the same opinions gamers had to put up with here in the UK in the 80's. :>
The decision makers involved probably realized that too, and thought of it as a calculated benefit.
1. they are cutting off another source of revenue to us capitalist pigs.
2. they are making more criminals out of their people. (although I don't understand what positive effect this has, the US is always doing this kind of stuff).
I find it worse when democracies ban stuff ... wasn't return to castle wolfenstein banned or something in Germany?
ABC and a half!
ABC and a half!
I think the real reason is that they have issues with the content of those games, and FIFA 2005 is a good example, as #3.3 pointed out.
I think I gonna side with China , I hate EA more than anything
Id say SIMs2 is a weirder choice.
But if games had a influence on our youth, then why aint everyone going out running people over in cars. stealing more than usual. More gunfights, and people going out and finding mushrooms to get stronger and jumping on peoples heads (last part maybe
Last edited by 62216 on 27 Jan 2005 - 06:47
It's not only the games, but every other imports as well.
..in China. I think that the true reasons behind it is to push chinese's videogames over foreign videogames, in other words :$$$ money for they, not for the rest of world.
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