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18+ Rated Games Aren't The Only Ones To Be Attacked By "Early Death" Preachers

March 11, 2009 in Blog comments 13

It's so strange to see Battlefield Heroes and Grand Theft Auto tied to one article but I'm afraid its true, 18+ rated games like the GTA series aren't the only ones to be victimised and scrutinised under the latest epidemic that seems to be sweeping the world.

Battlefield Heroes is a 12+ rated free to play game. Not even released yet and still under closed beta status yet already within the forums, problems are occuring, well see for yourself in the quote below which was taken directly from the forum itself.

this is out of order. why would you moderators and wannabe moderators try and alienate the community. just from looking round it seems that theres been a small group of you people, who are trying to create a class devide.
some of your responses to 13 to 15 year olds is nothing short of a disgrace, regardless of there behaviour.

we recently had a suicide here, were a young boy hanged himself over an argument
about a game.

looking around here, there are some people who arent even moderators, and are trying to come accross as moderators, and when things dont go there way. they try and belittle people in what they think is a subtle way. i am shocked and worried that one of these pretend moderators, who clearly have no people skills, are going to send an emotional child over the edge. and cuase tragic consequences. to be honest this forum needs to be closed, it is shocking watching whats going on.
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    Slumpy monkey Mar 11, 09
    Oh I never saw this? What forum is it in?
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      ShadowJ Mar 11, 09
      It's in the Battlefield Heroes section of the forum on the main site, there is a link to it in alt-sources. The topic is called, something along the lines of "New forum rule"
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    kspiess Mar 11, 09
    "we recently had a suicide here, were a young boy hanged himself over an argument
    about a game." huh? If anyone comes across any links to this incident, please post'em .I'd like to read more.
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      chautemoc Mar 11, 09
      They love making stuff up..I'm used to that, but that's a serious thing. What a *bleep*er.
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        ShadowJ Mar 11, 09
        Yeah I'm usually up-to-date on stuff like this but never heard anything about a suicide, don't get me wrong it could have happened and the media hadn't picked up on it but the guy in question that wrote it, I don't believe him.

        However I do believe that he might just be an annoyed and angry person for not getting a beta key and is trying to make stuff up in order to get the site shut down (which you must be an idiot to face off against DICE let alone the mothership company EA)

        To be honest, what you see in there is what I saw, Goodman was pretty quick to delete the actual offensive posts and only reason I vented in GG and my blog is because I respect him, so when he said to leave it be, I left it be.
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    Galacticdramon Mar 11, 09
    It's an argument on a forum. In what way, might I ask, is that victimisation of gamers?
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      ShadowJ Mar 11, 09
      The victimised part wasn't about the actual argument, it was towards all the "videogames causes death" bullshit and video games being solely blamed for teenagers attacking and killing other humans just because it was the item being fought over.

      People judge on first impressions and so when they hear that a teenager shot his dad because he took Halo 3 away from him, people start talking about it and make the wrong opinions. A bad reputation is then given to not just the game and company involved but also the gaming industry, it basically has a knock-on effect and then the bandwagon gets an upgrade to accomodate more idiots.

      Meanwhile the actual reason for the teenager shooting his dad is because he is a spoilt brat that doesn't get his way and so in order to get his own way, he kills. Yet to try and get out of a murder charge and stay out of prison, he gives out a plea of guilt while pleading that he was influenced by the game. This usually gets them off the hook to the point they can treatment and rehab while serving a sentence, certainly nothing compared to what they should be serving and so they get off lightly, all the while the gaming industry gains this bad rep.

      I would say that's victimisation, to wrongly accuse an individual or group of something they haven't done
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        Galacticdramon Mar 11, 09
        Where does it say so? All I'm getting from that quote is that someone's unhappy with people pretending to be moderators whose antics have gone tragically wrong and someone's ended up dead. It doesn't even blame games, it simply says someone killed themselves after an argument about one. Now unless there's some vital piece of text which that quote doesn't include, his (or her, whichever it is) rant is evidently about the behaviour of the people pretending to be moderators and what that did as opposed to the game.
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    BANDITO ATTACK Mar 12, 09
    he killed himself over an internet argument

    he wasn't going to make it in the real world, anyway.


    omigod omigod wats ur prblm man? D:
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    Bale Fire Mar 12, 09
    If you can't handle life on the Internet your going to get slaughtered in the real world. True a online argument may push you over the edge, but lots of things can if that will.
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    Galacticdramon Mar 12, 09
    I still can't see how this is directly against gamers. A game forum was where the apparent bullying was. That's the only relation this has to games as far as that quote goes.
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      ShadowJ Mar 12, 09
      Since when did anyone say it was "against gamers" the whole article is about those that constantly blame videogames for deaths.

      The reason the argument on the forum is linked to this is because the initial person arguing stated that someone hung themselves over an argument about a game, instead of blaming the two people involved, he is essentially blaming videogames for starting the argument which then led to the kid hanging himself...how hard is that to see?

      How hard is it to see that my whole argument to this whole situation is that It isn't the games you should be blaming but people themselves A videogame doesn't say "go kill this many people in your town" or "You can't win the argument, hang yourself" Only people can do that and my whole point is that this anti-gaming group can not see the faults of the human race and so they blame something else.
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        Galacticdramon Mar 12, 09
        Saying "a young boy hanged himself because of an argument over a game" and that the PEOPLE responsible should be ashamed does not equal saying "game X is dangerous because someone had an argument over it which resulted in death". Now if that quote is all we need to know, they are blaming the people they claim drove the kid to it. They are not blaming the game.

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