Iran Bans Battlefield 3

[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.

 

[Helmholtz Watson]

I just understood what the picture meant.

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...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.

what does the picture mean, I don't get it