Game development in germany.
category: general [glöplog]
As perceived and experienced by someone at crytek:
http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/showthread.php?t=31767
<< In 2004 the Bavarian authorities sent in the state troopers. Ostensibly it was as a response to a claim made by a former employee that we had illegal software installed on our machines. Their remit, however, appeared to be a lot wider. When the small tech team appeared to inspect our computers, they were accompanied by over one hundred flak-jacketed riot police, all armed with Heckler and Koch sub-machine guns.
It was a total overreaction. It was like they expected to find us hunkered down behind our desks, pulling out our shotguns and semi-automatics and shouting "you'll never take me alive, polizei!" They arrived first thing in the morning, and kicked down our doors. They even raided the nearby private residences, with one of our programmers forced to lay down naked on the floor with a gun to his head after he discovered armed police in his room after finishing his shower. >>
http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/showthread.php?t=31767
<< In 2004 the Bavarian authorities sent in the state troopers. Ostensibly it was as a response to a claim made by a former employee that we had illegal software installed on our machines. Their remit, however, appeared to be a lot wider. When the small tech team appeared to inspect our computers, they were accompanied by over one hundred flak-jacketed riot police, all armed with Heckler and Koch sub-machine guns.
It was a total overreaction. It was like they expected to find us hunkered down behind our desks, pulling out our shotguns and semi-automatics and shouting "you'll never take me alive, polizei!" They arrived first thing in the morning, and kicked down our doors. They even raided the nearby private residences, with one of our programmers forced to lay down naked on the floor with a gun to his head after he discovered armed police in his room after finishing his shower. >>
Thats awsome. I wish I was the police in such a raid. Id f*kn shoot whoever was the DBA.
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It sounds reasonable enough to me.
GESTAPO!!
wait
i can do better than that
*time for a wordplay*
GAMESTAPO!
i can do better than that
*time for a wordplay*
GAMESTAPO!
oh come off it maali, Game-stopo sounds much worse.
sounds fun! crystuff FTW!
Didn't realize this also got later posted on slashdot. Sorry about that ;)
maybe in the US you all would be dead or in Cuba now...
In China your relatives would now have to pay for the bullet they used to shoot you
And in the mideast noone would have a right hand anymore
:P
In China your relatives would now have to pay for the bullet they used to shoot you
And in the mideast noone would have a right hand anymore
:P
in turkey and bulgaria, policemen would reject the claim since they are using illegal copies of farcry themselves.
I met a crytek developer once that told me the same story .This may be why the moved to Frankfurt, I guess :-)
and in Russia... oh boy... in Russia...
As game-violence is becoming illegal in germany, more polizei stories will follow.
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As game-violence is becoming illegal in germany, more polizei stories will follow.
What is game-violence? I hope they also ban the news and movies!
...and books.
Banning books! I think I remember an old movie about that... Before you know it, Germany will ban lolicon. I live in the US, where it's considered evil to control fantasy entertainment. If you're in the arts or entertainment, you need to stay far away from places like Germany and Canada. They want to strip their citizens of emotion and imagination. They're turning them into Vulcans! :-O
Actually you know why it's evil to ban entertainment? Because people might actually start paying attention to what happens around them! (Yes I have this ambivalent view to entertainment in general)
Game developers somehow brought it on themselves actually.. If their games had any sort of message or political agenda, then they'd have a point to be protected by other rights. As they are now, mere entertainment, and more importantly, attached to no important lobby they are an easy target.
Game developers somehow brought it on themselves actually.. If their games had any sort of message or political agenda, then they'd have a point to be protected by other rights. As they are now, mere entertainment, and more importantly, attached to no important lobby they are an easy target.
The point is, and always has been, to do whatever the hell you want. And if the police won't let you do it, then do it SECRETLY.
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Banning books! I think I remember an old movie about that...
...which was, ironically, originally a book by Ray Bradbury...
KRYSTALNACHT!
k, i should stop with the nazi references, before i start to sound like lator :D
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