After the tragic Albertville-Realschule massacre where a 17-year-old teen went on a killing spree and murdered 16 people, German politicians have been pointing fingers.
Allegedly the teen killer played games like Far Cry 2 and Counter-Strike, and so ministers have motioned to have all distribution and production of ”Killerspiele” banned completely.
According to the interior ministers behind the proposal, videogames lower our inhibitions to gruesome violence and so pose a serious risk to the German people.
The draft bill is quoted as saying, ”the production and distribution of games in which a substantial part of the game consists of realistically portrayed killing or otherwise gruesome acts of violence against human or human-like creatures are to be forbidden”, reports Welt Online.
If such a measure were to pass, of which there is great scepticism it ever could, then Crysis developer Crytek would need to up sticks and move out of Germany.
It’s unlikely such a scenario would occur given the failure of the German government to ban paintball after the tragedy due to protests.
Source: Eurogamer
