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Game development in germany.

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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. >>
added on the 2006-12-15 22:27:12 by _-_-__ _-_-__
Thats awsome. I wish I was the police in such a raid. Id f*kn shoot whoever was the DBA.
added on the 2006-12-15 22:56:33 by Pegasus Pegasus
killerspielekillerspielekillerspielepillenkillerspielekillerspieleraubkopienkillerspielefickenkillerspielekillerspielekillerspiele
added on the 2006-12-15 23:13:55 by noouch noouch
It sounds reasonable enough to me.
added on the 2006-12-15 23:31:38 by doomdoom doomdoom
GESTAPO!!
wait
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!
added on the 2006-12-16 04:58:27 by Zest Zest
Didn't realize this also got later posted on slashdot. Sorry about that ;)
added on the 2006-12-16 08:38:51 by _-_-__ _-_-__
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
added on the 2006-12-16 21:31:48 by Zweckform Zweckform
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 :-)
added on the 2006-12-20 22:13:09 by raer raer
and in Russia... oh boy... in Russia...
added on the 2006-12-21 00:50:33 by EviL EviL
As game-violence is becoming illegal in germany, more polizei stories will follow.
added on the 2006-12-21 01:20:27 by r0XX0r r0XX0r
Quote:
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!
added on the 2006-12-21 01:49:00 by xernobyl xernobyl
...and books.
added on the 2006-12-21 01:49:12 by xernobyl xernobyl
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
added on the 2006-12-21 04:02:15 by Steohawk Steohawk
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.
added on the 2006-12-21 09:27:19 by _-_-__ _-_-__
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.
added on the 2006-12-21 13:24:43 by doomdoom doomdoom
Quote:
Banning books! I think I remember an old movie about that...

...which was, ironically, originally a book by Ray Bradbury...
added on the 2006-12-21 17:10:01 by Gargaj Gargaj
KRYSTALNACHT!
k, i should stop with the nazi references, before i start to sound like lator :D
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added on the 2006-12-21 18:03:48 by wix wix

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