Iran Bans Battlefield 3

[Gmans uncle]

This feels appropriate...

Honestly, this is IRAN we're talking about here. It's a wonder it ever made it there.

 

[thepyrethatburns]

Remember when Russia invaded Washington in MW2? Remember all the trouble that caused? Good times!

I think it would have caused more trouble if the Russians were presented as the good guys in that one ^^

and detonated a thermonuclear weapon on U.S. soil.....or, at the very least, attacked New York in less of an ass-stupid manner.

 

[Andronicus]

I just understood what the picture meant.

...
...
...and you're a horrible, horrible man.

OT: Poor Middle East. They just can't catch a break, can they? Hell, they can't even play videogames without being shot at by Americans.

 

[octafish]

Why is there what looks like a picture of Malcolm Mclaren accompanying this story?

Because Andy Chalk is a lover of terrible puns? (Hint: Flock of Seagulls, not Malcolm McLaren).

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Battlefield 3 has a single-player campaign?

 

[Moosejaw]

Unfortunately it seems the youth organizing that petition are as ignorant about the people buying that game as we as a society are about Iranians in general. The truth is that we've been conditioned to view the entire Middle East as a cauldron of evil boogeymen who want to blow us up because (and ONLY because) we don't make our women wear burkas.

So, they're a convenient enemy to put into a video game. Blowing up Tehran has exactly as much meaning for us as being in a game where you kill demons in hell. That's the simple of it, depressing as it is. That's why we don't care about indiscriminately bombing civilians in the Middle East for poorly justified and antiquated reasons, because it's not like they're people anyway.

 

[brazuca]

The men who gives the orders to blow shit up, the men and women who command the world do not play or care for video game. In fact I do not recall seeing the Ayatollah Musavi Khomeini saying anything about weapons. What about the restrictions to the coalision for attacking a country and desrespecting international laws?

See world politics works in two standards. Video games do not set them. It's just a stupid ban, Iran should be more concerned with things like not allowing terrorist hide in their territory so the US do not blame Iran and invade them.

 

[Sixties Spidey]

I'm unsurprised, given that the people that run that country are, for lack of a better term, nucking futs.

 

[Zach of Fables]

You know, I hear there aren't any gays there either.

 

[geizr]

Sometimes, there are things you just shouldn't do at particular moments and under particular circumstances, particularly because of how others may be affected. Being able to discern when such moments and circumstances occur requires empathy(not the same as sympathy), which is the ability to understand and account for another person's perspective on things.

 

[Moosejaw]

Iran should be more concerned with things like not allowing terrorist hide in their territory so the US do not blame Iran and invade them.

That is certainly NOT why they're saber-rattling at Iran and illustrates my earlier point.

 

[Dutch 924]

"We understand that the story of a videogame is hypothetical... [but] we believe the game is purposely released at a time when the U.S. is pushing the international community into fearing Iran,"

Yes Iran, you're right. This is all a massive conspiracy to make the world declare war against you. Gold stars for everyone

 

[Zetatrain]

These games dont make me fear Iran, or Russia, or North Korea (although that one doesnt need a game to be scary), these games just make me understand how USA sees the world.

Really?...I think you're taking these games a little bit too seriously if that's the case.

 

[Zetatrain]

Very stupid of Iran, obviously, but I get the feeling that if a game was made in Iran depicting an Iranian attack on Washington, the US government would be pretty quick to ban it.

There'd definitely be a lot of calls for a ban either way.

The only way that could even possibly happen is if they could prove that the game was created to incite or encourage violence against the U.S., which in itself would be very hard to prove.

 

[Delsana]

These games dont make me fear Iran, or Russia, or North Korea (although that one doesnt need a game to be scary), these games just make me understand how USA sees the world.

USA = video game developers? Idk I, for one, liked the last Iranian guy I met.

I know that the game isnt even american but it falls into that stereotype of USA saves the day crap. And by these games I mean these "realistic (barely though) modern war FPS" games that all surround the US being the hero against some other usual minority.

Be to be fair and honest, the US is the one who is the "hero" at least in how they present what they do and more likely than not, those who disagree are the most likely to be invaded next.

The last statement on this story was quite true, people are worried about them having nuclear capability and Israel will most likely do a pre-emptive sabotage job of extreme action as they did with Iraq.

 

[Haelium]

Seems reasonable. Iran is under siege by constant propaganda right now, everybody is saying that they have nukes just like they said Iraq had nukes. Right now, the US, the UK and Canada is putting Iranian banks under sanction. It seems that everybody is doing what they can to make Iran look bad, and now a game comes out where Iran has nukes and gets invaded?


Banning that game seems pretty reasonable to me.

 

[BlackKraken]

I must have misunderstood battlefield 3's 'story' (for want of a better word), because I thought that although you were fighting in Tehran you weren't actually fighting Iranians but some multinational terrorist group that had invaded Iran.

AKA you're actually DEFENDING Iran.

I could quite easily be wrong, the 'story' was a little hard to follow...

Im surprised Russians haven't made any big statements as they seem to be the Big Bad (TM) in games currently, aping the cold war a bit.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

I don't know why this is shocking. Iran blamed a drought on the west, telling their people that they were not having rain, because the West was stealing it from them! (At the time the UK was having a particulary dry summer, there was even a hosepipe ban!)

 

[gphjr14]

Why is there what looks like a picture of Malcolm Mclaren accompanying this story?

May be a little too young to know this song.


I'm sure a lot of people are confused about the picture.

"We understand that the story of a videogame is hypothetical... [but] we believe the game is purposely released at a time when the U.S. is pushing the international community into fearing Iran,"

Yes Iran, you're right. This is all a massive conspiracy to make the world declare war against you. Gold stars for everyone

Well it's not like the US didn't invade their neighbor (Iraq) on the pretense they had something to do with 9/11.

..... No wait yeah they did.

 

[duchaked]

I'm just surprised it took them this long to do it lol

 

[Helmholtz Watson]

Why is there what looks like a picture of Malcolm Mclaren accompanying this story?

my thoughts exactly.

I'm surprised that they didn't blame "Zionism" for making the game.