We German Gamers need ur Help

[Lemonking]

Help us by signing this petition PLZ

http://www.gamestar.de/aktuell/petition/frontal21/


If you can read german sign it plz we need ur help


you can wtach the TV report that schocked Germanys gamers
http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/inhalt/26/0,1872,2285338,00.html

[Recoil]

Pfff, will be forgotten in a few days... :|

[Maxi]

What's it about?

[satch919]

I signed! Good luck Herr Lemonking!

[Recoil]

What's it about?

...a TV show reporting. Videogames make people violent blahblah, the usual crap. They try to make that show excuse or correct.

[Lemonking]

What's it about?


friggin TV Channel for Grandmas says that we Gamers are poteniel
Columbine Killers and stuff like that plz help us

[Lemonking]

I signed! Good luck Herr Lemonking!


thx every sig counts

[Eg.]

but we all know that if germans get a hand on violent games, it will make teh 4th reich come around quicker. god i love the reasoning behid the censorship there

[<RJMC>]

but I hear that in germany are many antiviolence laws,for example that in videogames the humans are chaged whit robots cuz its forbiden to shoot people in videogames(they did that whit halflife1)

so whats hapen now?

[The Monkey]

I can read German...I thought. Obvouis not well enough to understand that.

[<RJMC>]

I recomend you to explain what to do for lazy people like me :E

where I sign?

[Lemonking]

just click the link and enter ur info
and at the second link I posted u can watch a vis on the right side of the page it says Video click it watch it



30380 and counting

[Pauly]

Eh... I can read little german, but that must be some pretty good slang terms.

[halflifeguy]

I would sign but i cant read german
Video games are being attacked for no apparent reason............
Its just another form of entertainment!!!
Why cant they protests against movies
Some movies are more violent and gory than videogames!!!(Saving Private Ryan)

[Fat Tony!]

Doesn't seem that bad for me to bother to sign ;)

[Samon]

Online petitions burn away into thin air given a few days/weeks. They make very little difference. But if you must...

[mortiz]

DON'T!!!

You're actually signing up for gay porn! ;/

[Anthraxxx]

if you don't understand what either page says, just C&P the link into google and have it translate

German gamers have my support!

[Lemonking]

thx guys

[DieHard]

If I sig that will it go for volience in video games in germany? Cuas if it dont then I aint sign'n.

[Alig]

Can anyone point me in the direction of a successful petition? thanks.

Edit/ It was to my understanding that the government (or whatever you have over there) always have the final decision and that decision sticks whether you like it or lump it...that goes for any country on the planet.

[Zeus]

Can't read it, won't bother. I'm not signing up for something that I am not 100% sure what it is. Use petitiononline next time

[IchI]

Sigh.... its so pathetic how teachers seem to think its video games that make there kids crazy and hard to control. May be they should look at the high sugar and fat diets they are giving small children at school.

[Razor]

The Columbine shootings were blamed on violent computer games, violent movies, rock music, Marilyn Manson and the National Rifle Association. What they should of blamed were the kids with mental problems.

[Alig]

Its not games, its not guns, its nothing at all of the sort, its because there is to much human rights and there is no punishment in the system anymore..., what? 150 hours community service is punishment? please! (this is in UK btw).

[Samon]

The Columbine shootings were blamed on violent computer games, violent movies, rock music, Marilyn Manson and the National Rifle Association. What they should of blamed were the kids with mental problems.

.Word.

[Tee Kyoo Em]

If one looks back at history, it's evident that every major medium had to struggle with similar problems. Books, paintings, radio and television; they have all been accused of being responsible for the downfall of society at one point or another.
Now it's the computer; a relatively new medium. The majority of people fear what they don't understand and hence are quick to blame what they fear. A fact is that the majority of people who use a computer to play graphically-violent games aren't incited to mimic in "real life" what they've experienced in the safe "sandbox environments" of games. It is only a very, very small minority of the whole game-playing population who run amok or otherwise turn extremely violent. The problem is with those individuals. They are having mental problems and their violent behaviour could've been triggered by any kind of expressive media. They lack a high-enough threshold against using violence that prevents saner persons from flipping out and turning into a danger to society. This problem certainly isn't solved by giving up or limiting the freedom of the majority of people to participate in and consume interactive games of violent nature.

Regarding the petition I have to point out that it is mostly directed at Germans playing interactive games and everyone is urged not to devalue the petition by entering false information.
In short, the German TV station ZDF (a non-profit corporation regulated by public law) recently aired two reports about violence in computer games that were obviously biased and contained highly-controversial opinions on the matter. The petition asks the station to treat the matter of computer and video games with fairness in the coming future, especially since the station receives compulsory, monthly charges from anyone who watches TV.

I won't give in. I signed the petition.