Blizzard Forced to Censor StarCraft II

ionveau

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Just like they tell their players that in game advantages is a choice, it was there choice to change the gore they where never forced
 

joystickjunki3

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Marmooset said:
joystickjunki3 said:
[edit] For the record, it makes no mention of whether or not the US version is affected.
Except on the last line.
Note: This does not affect StarCraft II in other regions, such as the U.S.
But it does not say it twice, at least...
Note: It did not say that when the article was posted. And if it did, the my bad.
 

Canadamus Prime

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rembrandtqeinstein said:
Repeat after me....It is the job of parents to "protect children" not the government.
This X 1000000000000000

However since it's natural human tendency to blame everyone and everything else for your mistakes, when the parents fail it's only natural they look for a scapegoat.
 

Eric the Orange

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Vitor Goncalves said:
By the way, I hope the final game looks better then that picture and the youtube videos as it looks something middle way from warcarft 2 and warcraft 3. But probably its due to the bed resolution, hopefully. Anyone here in the beta of the game with some reliable idea?!
Well from my experience it looks very good, noticeably better than WC3. But much like WoW it has a variate of sliders to facilitate various ages and qualities of computers. So, at lower graphic levels it probably doesn't look that good. My computer is very new so I got the graphics up to full and I think it looks very smooth and clean.
 

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Slashe said:
am i the only one who is shocked that this kinda of rating is given in South Korean?
Seriously? The South Korea? AKA The Capital of Starcraft with actual television channels featuring the tournments daily?

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Maybe they wanted to restrict it so that their children don't get addicted like their adults
Nah because now they just made it so that children can play it by censoring it.

I am aware that it is considered to be a professional sport, so perhaps it was censored for accessibility.
 

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Brad Shepard said:
rembrandtqeinstein said:
Repeat after me....It is the job of parents to "protect children" not the government.
But when the parents fail, they blame the government, its a never ending circle, thats why the censor everything, Digimon, Pokemon, Starcraft, even Yu Gi Oh cards.
We need a government that tells said anti-fun people to stfu :D Freedom over oppression ... sadly it's like: freedom 4, oppression 3523495235398 and counting :(
 

Frannyboy

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Tough censoring laws in south korea i suppose

Smoking and blood in an RTS >_< ..... come on !
 

swolf

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Why is black blood better than red blood? It's still blood. Why can't kids see people smoking? I mean, people smoke and kids see that in real life. Just a side thought, why are some people offended by seeing women in lingerie? I mean, typically, it's the same type of stuff that you would see in a bathing suit at the beach. In short, Why so SERIOUS?!?! (Sorry, couldn't resist making that "Dark Knight" reference.)
 

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canadamus_prime said:
rembrandtqeinstein said:
Repeat after me....It is the job of parents to "protect children" not the government.
This X 1000000000000000

However since it's natural human tendency to blame everyone and everything else for your mistakes, when the parents fail it's only natural they look for a scapegoat.
And then repeat it more.
 

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If it does not change a the actual gameplay, then it does not matter...for us.

No, this situation speaks more about the upcoming politics between Korea and Blizzard.
 

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chemicalreaper said:
Eh, the two Koreas are really screwed up. I wonder why? (*starts flicking through a modern history textbook.*) Oh yeah, because we went in to try and democratize them.
The fault lies more with the Soviet Union, as it was North Korea, the portion they controlled, that launched an attack on the South. The US defended the South, and nowadays South Korea is a nice place with a great economy that can compete in the world market. The North, as far as anyone can tell, is a train wreck being kept as secret as possible. The entire Korea could be like that had the US not stopped the North's invasion, soooo

anyway, it's too bad the Koreans won't get the real deal. Starcraft is such a big deal over there, after all. Shame that it has to be censored.
 

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This immediately made me think of this:


Speaking as an Aussie who got around the Left 4 Dead 2 censorship, I have to say I'm not a fan of the whole concept of meddling with the artistic vision of a game to respect the sensibilities of people who won't play them. Of course 12 year olds shouldn't be playing R rated games, but that doesn't mean adults should be prevented from having the full experience as it was intended.
 

DTWolfwood

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release both versions id say. hopefully South Koreans aren't as retarded as half the americans who complain when they buy M rated games for their kids, and will actually look at the rating on the box. Best to give them a choice and imagine they have the wherewithal to choose correctly.

Black blood hah its the same thing they did to get a lot of the Bloody anime on cartoon network XD
 

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I think it's on Russian TF2 servers where people explode into cogs and metal or festive party articles. It ruins the fun a little IMHO.
 

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Surprised it was rated T by ESRB.
http://www.esrb.org/ratings/synopsis.jsp?Certificate=28134&searchkeyword=Starcraft%202