Crytek, the developer of Crysis, may be on the verge of leaving their German headquarters due to a possible ban on violent video games in the country.
The German government has had the ban - involving video games where “human or human-like characters” are harmed - opposed by nearly 70,000 e-petitioners. The government, known as the ‘Bundestag’, will have to – by law – review the ban, due to a ruling which allows such a thing to take place if 50,000 votes are reached in a petition pertaining to rulings.
Yet the government recently allowed a ruling on internet censorship to be passed, despite the public producing an e-petition with 130,000 votes. Although the government modified the ruling so that a governmental warning appears to the user when accessing any banned site, it still allows users to surf the sites.
The co-founder and President of Crytek, Cevat Yerli, signalled in 2006 that Crytek would leave the country if a ban on shooters were to go ahead. Crytek and Spellbound, creator of the new Gothic game, have been contacted for comment.
Personally, I think the ruling will prove too complex. What of games like The Sims? You can clearly harm your Sims by sending them into the middle of a fire, or by doing that old glitch where you lock them in-between four walls and watch them suffer.
Yeah, we don’t do that kind of stuff…
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THIS IS WHAT THE GERMAN GOVERMENT HAS BEEN DOING IN ORDER TO CURTAIL THE VOILENCE IN GAMES SINCE THAT KID OPENED FIRED IN A SCHOOL IN THAT COUNTRY A FEW MONTHS AGO.CRYTEK IS A GOOD COMPANY AND ITS A SHAME THAT THE COMPANY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO COMPLETE THE SERIES THE WAY THEY WANT TO IN THAT COUNTRY.ON THE BRIGHT SIDE IM GLAD THAT CRTEK IS NOT CONFORMING TO WHAT THE LAW MAKERS IN THAT COUNTRY WANT THEM TO DO.EVERYONE THAT PLAYS THE GAME IS GOING TO RUN AND OPEN FIRE IN A SCHOOL.ITS SAD THAT EVEN IN THIS DAY IN TIME THERE ARE STILL ALOT OF CLOSED MINDED PEOPLE.AND WHO IS TO SAY THAT GAMES ARE THE CAUSE OF THE VOILENCE.IF ALL OF THE VOILENT GAMES ARE REMOVED FROM THE COUNTRY ALONE WILL STOP VOILENCE.I DONT THINK SO.SOME PEOPLE JUST NEED TO REALIZE THAT GAMES ARE A FORMAT OF RECRE
GAMES ARE A FORMAT OF RECREATION.
Caps Lock makes it true?
Anyway, Crytek should probably try and do something else than more shooty shooty on a tropical island.
Crytek will just get bought up by EA and become a yearly feature, crysis 2010, 2011 etc. /nocare
I doubt Crytek will get bought up, but i can see them moving to somewhere else in europe. Its a loss to the german economy if all the devs leave, and germans dont like that
Does Sir Cevat really seem like the sort of person who would let his company be bought out? And also, from what he’s said in the past, they are working on non-shooters at the other studios, while Frankfurt is focusing on the Crysis series.
whats next removing the army?
i dont understand why violence is so sternly looked down on in some countrys.
but than drugs and porn meh who cares.
hmmmmm i wonder if GG will be moving to.
Sanpaku if you think crysis games can be done in yearly additions your surely mistaken.
look at crysis took years to finish and STILL to this day its the most technical advanced game out there, and i cant see that changing till mayb GOW3 if not than crysis 2.