GAMING NEWSIran Bans Battlefield 3Posted on Tuesday, November 29 @ 07:39:18 Eastern by Nicholas Tan
In no surprise, Iran has banned Battlefield 3 from its store due to its depiction of US forces launching an assult on Tehran, though Electronic Arts has no resellers in Iran in the first place. This what-if situation in the video game is, of course, fictitious. But a Fars news agency reports that a group of "Iranian youths" are not satisfied and has prompted an online protest against the title with 5,000 signatures thus far: The Iranian police has reportedly gone as far as raiding some shops and arresting owners for selling pirated versions of Battlefield 3. Well, what about all the other games that have been pirated? I guess little or nothing at all. [Source] More from the Game Revolution Network Comments
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vlietvandon
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LawnGnome
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B.) Unless you count what they do to their own people who protest against the government.
C.) It's really a matter of freedom of speech.
D.) Why aren't there Russians & Americans up in arms over all of the deaths attributed to and against those countries in the game? I mean, the number I've killed alone with a.....
WILLS_COOL_MODE
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warmaster670
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Doesnt Iran do this to itself ona daily basis whenever they open tehre mouth?
hopiamani
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So basically they are banning pirated copies. lol
J03
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