Post: Call of Duty Pulled from Norway Stores
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08-04-2011, 07:41 PM
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The Open Minded
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Following the tragic massacre in Norway, Call of Duty has been pulled from two major retailers. Not only has Call of Duty been removed from shelves, but other violent first person shooters have also been pulled.
One of the stores, called Coop, made a statement saying:
Originally posted by another user
"In light of Friday's horrific events, and out of respect for those affected, we have chosen to remove selected items from our range."
Call of Duty: Black Ops, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Call of Duty: World at War Platinum, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Classic, Homefront, Sniper: Ghost Warrior, Counter-Strike Source, and World of Warcraft have all been pulled from the store shelves at Coop.
Another store chain called Platekompaniet has also removed various shooters and other games from it's shelves.
Although the shooter from the incident, Anders Breivik, stated he had very little interest in first person shooters, he did state:
Originally posted by another user
[Modern Warfare 2 was] "part of my training simulation…You can more or less completely simulate actual operations."
Breivik did spend a lot of time using video games, but he was more geared towards RPGs and fantasy titles. He was a self proclaimed World of Warcraft addict. It is believed he made the claims of addiction to cover up the time he spent meticulously planning his attack.
So what are your opinions? Do you think that these games should have been pulled due to the attack? Are his claims that he used violent, first person shooters to plan his attack justification enough to deprive consumers of a product that they have the right to purchase?
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08-04-2011, 11:37 PM
#20
ARIISSEK
:nyan: Kaffy :nyan:
Originally posted by PsYcHoSiS
Religion is still legal.. Nobody has a problem with the massacres that happen because of religion..
>Implying that religious-extremist types don't appear in the news at least every other week because of some kind of assault :dumb:
Also, Ask someone about 9 / 11. $10 says they care if they live in america :derp:
08-05-2011, 12:18 AM
#22
DC12X
S.P.E.C.I.A.L
Originally posted by Maxidor
What does these games have to do with some psycho killing people? I mean he murdered them out of political reasons. And they banned World of Warcraft? WoW is basiclly you killing wolfes or picking flowers in the forrest. I think its wrong to ban these games because its like punishing the companies who made themnot preventing massacres.
Call Of Duty was banned because the terrorist openly admitted he used Modern Warfare 2 as a training simulator. That's enough of a reason to ban it in Norway.
08-05-2011, 12:54 AM
#23
Maxidor
Pokemon Trainer
Originally posted by DC12X
Call Of Duty was banned because the terrorist openly admitted he used Modern Warfare 2 as a training simulator. That's enough of a reason to ban it in Norway.
Well yes but since its not much of a simulator and you can't really learn anything usefull from it i still think it is stupid to ban these games...
kay:
08-05-2011, 02:03 AM
#28
Booshykins
Tech Enthusiast
Originally posted by Ben
I think its their choice, at the end of the day its only going to impact the shop(s) in the long run, not us, why? Because there's always another shop that'll sell the game, yeah fair enough Norway have had it tough lately but in all honesty its not the bloody games fault, get over yourselves.
EDIT: After re-reading this a few times, I'm assuming you're telling the shop-owners in Norway to get over themselves. Forget that I may have said anything. :p
Correct me if I'm wrong.
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