Not in the Middle East.Colonel Alzheimer said:
In Saudi Arabia, they still have public executions. UAE residents, count yourself lucky.
United Arab Emirates Bans Dead Rising 2
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In Saudi Arabia, they still have public executions. UAE residents, count yourself lucky.
You're the one who's brainwashed if you think life sucks in the UAE, top professionals all over the globe jump at the chance to work there, maybe they're all brainwashed too?DTWolfwood said:
Having grown up in the middle east, this dosen't strike me as news at all. If there was a new article every time a game was banned in a middle eastern company... well you'd need a whole new website.
I grew up there; Censorship is rampant. Piracy is rampant, so people play it anyway.
I grew up there; Censorship is rampant. Piracy is rampant, so people play it anyway.
Aversions to violence, gambling, nudity and alcohol are just part of the societal norm among the electorate of the UAE. Some of that derives from the state religion, but I'm not sure there's any reason to think that religion is behind the decision to ban this game.Colonel Alzheimer said:
Like we generally don't go to work on the sabbath. That's not a rule that we follow because it's one of the ten commandments. We just do it because it's become the norm, regardless of how it originated.
But the generalisation [that religion is not separate from government] applies nearly as much to the West as it does to the East.ciortas1 said:
It's a shame. They'll miss out on wailing on a zombie with a broadsword, or a home-made flamethrower, or a lightsabre. Hell, anything in that game that makes it fun (which is everything).
I'm going to the other side of the room away from the religious aspects of this argument to discuss something else about this story. How could they possibly neuter this game to make it appeal to these countries? We're talking about killing zombies... you couldn't even challenge them to a pants off dance off to defeat them! So if you take out the violence, blood, nudity and alcohol... what is left? A guy running around in Vegas with a bunch of infected people that he can do nothing about. I guess if you made it like Mirror's Edge where you spend the entire game avoiding the zombies, you might be able to release this game. Granted, it would be a pain in the ass to have it span more than a few levels, unless they got really creative about aversion in the game, but I doubt anyone would want to play that.
Clearly, you have never been to the UAE, or the Middle East. There are not the same freedoms we have, and its not like there is freedom of choice. Pretty much, if they are raised that way, thats how it stays, rarely are they objectional to their culture, without risk of being...cleansed...sometimes to death. The UAE is not so bad, but, I wouldnt count out the possibility. Also, when I was there a couple years back, I was able to get PS3/360 games weeks earlier than any other country, I had Resistance 2 a full month before stateside people did.
Work there is great i agree, shit i would love to work there too. They have some serious money to throw around. For tourist traps like Dubai its probably great to live there too, assuming you can afford it. The UAE is quite the secular nation from all outwards appearances and they are courting the western nations because they have the foresight to see that oil wealth will not sustain them forever.SimpleReally said:
But at what point did i say anything about foreigners being brainwashed? I thought i was obvious in my implications that this for those born and raised as muslims in the UAE. Having spoken with gamers on Teamspeak who are born and raised there, the awkward conversations that would happen when anyone mentions anything about the military or religion in general most definitely leads me to believe they are not as progressive as their outward appearance would suggest. (i.e. I had mention Hezbollah once and dear god you wouldn't believe the praise and rampant condemnation of Irael that came forth. When I asked if they ever consider that the air-strikes were self-defense, they damn near chewed me out.)
Knowing that, for anyone who isn't a devout muslim living in the UAE and is actually a gamer, this piece of news isn't news. Games with sin city as the backdrop being banned there ISN'T NEWSWORTHY. what would be if they didn't ban the game. So yeah it does suck to live there if you game and hasnt been brainwashed
I actually don't know. I *know* the Pokemon thing was Sharjah. I know Origins was actually banned countrywide (Messiah was censored if anyone remembers that game, but even that was available).Greg Tito said:
I don't actually have Dead Rising 2, but I'll go to the store and see what they say on Thursday. I was talking about the list of games it joined.
"Mass Effect 2, Red Dead Redemption, Mafia II". Origins I got when I was in the UK. I'll also ask about the other titles and see if they got banned after I bought them.