Petition for freedom of games. Please sign

[SupahFly]

Dear fellow gamers,

I live in Belgium and recently two teachers started a hysterical crusade agains "violent videogames".

They have already spoken with a minister, got lots of media attention and they are running an anti-violent-game petition...
(It kinda resembles "Blame T&P, blame Canada" from the South Park Movie)

Their arguments are like poo. Really ...
Things like : "after playing the game manhunt a teenage boy killed another one in the same style" or "did you know that the US government uses violent videogames to recruit new soldiers ?" ...

It started with a lot of comotion about the new Rockstar game "Bully", but the focus of their ridicoulous action quickly broadened to "all violent videogames". (GTA, CS, America's Army, ...)

Anyway, the Belgian gamerscommunity has started an online petition on december 6 2005. FOR freedom of games and AGAINST any kind of restrictions, prohibitions or bans.

If you sign the petition you agree that a "guiding system" is ok, e.g. recommended age is mentioned on the box. But that it's up to the partents & the gamers to decide wheter or not they want to buy the game.

PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION on www.gamers4games.be
please keep this topic high & please spread the word around.

THANK YOU ! :cheers:

note : the fields they ask you to fill are :
1) Name (Surname & first name)
2) Town / Country
3) E-mail adress (acts like your signature. Privacy rights will be respected. Adress wont be given to third parties)

 

[Ennui]

I recommend you spell the link address right next time, as the one in your message is broken.

Real site is www.gamers4games.be i believe.

 

[Kamikazie]

if AA is violent, then wouldnt all war games be considered violent? or is it just because it teaches you how to use your weapon...or because it has "America's" is it...the world may never know...

 

[SupahFly]

@Ennui : fixed it. My mistake.

@Kamikazie : the AA reference / focus is obviously a cheap trick to try to get some sympathy from US haters here in Belgium. And yes : they consider all war games to be violent. (and all shooters, beat em ups, hack & slash,....) but GTA & AA are games they call by name. (eduactive and peaceloving games are allowed though ... makes me wonder what they will do with hybrids like black&white)

 

[Kamikazie]

how many sigs do you need?

 

[little.rebel]

I hate people like that

 

[SupahFly]

I don't know.
I guess they want to get more signatures than the ANTI violent games camp.
And since that camp already gets support from certain massmedia, schooldirections & parentgroups I thought that some help from the international gamercommunity would be welcome.

Most important thing is that as many ppl as possible sign the petition.

So that it can be a counterweight for the stupid petition organised by those narrow minded teachers.


By the way : if you have sympathy for www.gamers4games.be and their cause, or just plain aversion for retarded game-banners, please don't just say so on this forum, but go to the site, fill in the 3 fields & show some solidarity with your Belgian game-brothers !!! :dork: thanks !

 

[DoctorWeeTodd]

I can't read dutch, so how do I know this isn't some elaborate scheme to make me sign away my earthly possessions?

 

[SupahFly]

omg, you paranoid pokemon player :rolling:

Okay already, if i translate the page , will you then sign the petition ?

 

[Patriarch2000]

Has anything ever been accomplished with an online petition before?

 

[DoctorWeeTodd]

Has anything ever been accomplished with an online petition before?

There have been reports that petitiononline as well as other physical forms helped make Starbucks increase the wages for bean pickers. It also is well known for pissing off a lot of geeks with that phony petition on changing the for the second LOTR movie.

Okay and I'll sign it SupahFly but if some lawyer shows up and tells me my nuts are now some corporation's property I'll see you in hell.

PS: Will american signatures help considering theres a lot of "US haters"?

 

[MiccyNarc]

Oh yesh, because only petitions ALWAYS work!

 

[WhiteZero]

Online petitions never work.
Peroid.
Anyone serious about starting a petition dose it hard copy, else no one will take you seriously.

 

[Patriarch2000]

It also is well known for pissing off a lot of geeks with that phony petition on changing the for the second LOTR movie.

Changing the what sorry?

 

[magpie]

yeah, online signatures suck.

also i think that the age ratings on games should be stricter. as it is now a parent can buy a high rated game for a 4 year old.

and it is true that the us is the biggest funding body of the computer games industry. but banning things is not good. no one HAS to play games that they don't want to.

 

[Kadayi]

Changing the what sorry?

Some Americans started a protest over the fact that the 2nd LoTR film was called 'The two Towers' in light of 9/11 (even though that was the title of the book way before 9/11)..because 'it was an insult to all those brave Americans who died'.

Needless to say it was just an excuse for a bunch of inbreds to get their faces on TV, cry a bit and threaten Newline cinema with unfeasibly large lawsuits for causing 'emotional distress' ...:dozey:

 

[<RJMC>]

why you just do this

go to gamespot or a webpage like that and show them how is the game bully cuz I hav read about it and there is no blood or high violence in that game acording to the developers,infact is more like a cartoon

 

[Ravioli]

One of my history teachers have bought Call of Duty 2 and he loves it. Its a part of the history and another way to study it and experiance it then just reading from a book.

Some students in school think that WW2 was nothing so i really hope that i can put it on a projector and show Stalingrad...

 

[Flyingdebris]

ooh AA is a violent game made by the military used to desensitize troops. Ooooh scary.

As realistic as AA is, it wa very boring. Nor do i remember all that much gore. And as for desensitizing troops, a ball of lies. The game, among a few others, is merely used for the purpose of teaching and learning tactics. Not about something so stupid as "desensitizing."

 

[Shasta]

I can't stand ANYONE who feel's the need to impose their beliefs on everyone, even to the point of changing laws. As for games causing violence in the community, well, if anything I think these games are a safe output for people who want to pump a few rounds into someone before bedtime. If some idiot is messed up enough to want to do i for real, then a game isn't going to change that. I love violent games. I love horror movies. I love gore and blood and action. I'm not going to kill anyone. (I promise!....) Dont let people like these tossers impose themselves into YOUR life- and it is just that. Your life. Half of these opinionated eggs have never even played a video game in their life. Word of warning- the same sort of thing is already happening in New Zealand. And not just with video games either....

 

[Beerdude26]

I can't stand ANYONE who feel's the need to impose their beliefs on everyone, even to the point of changing laws. As for games causing violence in the community, well, if anything I think these games are a safe output for people who want to pump a few rounds into someone before bedtime. If some idiot is messed up enough to want to do i for real, then a game isn't going to change that. I love violent games. I love horror movies. I love gore and blood and action. I'm not going to kill anyone. (I promise!....) Dont let people like these tossers impose themselves into YOUR life- and it is just that. Your life. Half of these opinionated eggs have never even played a video game in their life. Word of warning- the same sort of thing is already happening in New Zealand. And not just with video games either....

Indeed. I live in Belgium too, and the articles in the newspapers are just plain hilarious .

A 9 year-old girl (how does she know about the game anyway, we don't have game commercials here :|) said she thinks that the youngsters in France burnt all those cars because they looked at Bully and thought, "Hey, cool idea!"

She should just shut up, grow up and then look at the matter again :hmph:

 

[Barney Fife]

Without violence this world would be gay and you would see men hagging and cheek kissing each other on the streets.
Animals including humans are violent by nature and there is nothing petitions can do about it.

sheesh! we can't even kill artificially? What is this world coming to? and by the way south park is why i come home everyday.

 

[Birdie]

"Their arguments are like poo" made me laugh for five minutes straight. I must be tired..

Anyways, I do support your cause but at the same time don't think that online petitions are the right way to get things a-rollin'. People who decide about these things and the common folk are rarely affected at all by some shady "internet signatures".

You should seek other ways to get your message through to the right people.