Age of Conan

True, but the whole age restrictions thing doesn't prevent youngsters from obtaining material they shouldn't, at least of a certain nature. The truth is, in the UK (much like US) parents will be fairly easy on the age limits and see them more as guidlines when it comes to violence or gore in a computer game especially, pornography they take more seriously. As its a game parents see them as beeing made for the kids in the first place, and kids themselves are naturally drawn to those games with lovely red 18 stickers on them. What age group do you feel are responsible for buy the majority of eminem albums with the LEGAL stickers.

I do agree with you in priciple, there is a proces and that it should work well. The truth is (and the censor's know this) that in the real world it simply does not.

Originally posted by Cormoor

Originally posted by xyklon
Banning games, or anything in general, is just stupid. Let people do what they want as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else.

Completely agree with you, I am so happy almost nothing gets banned here in Scandinavia (don't know about Denmark though), why should the government be allowed to tell us what we can and can't do? Still pretty annoyed that marijuana is illegal here in Norway :(

Originally posted by Consensus
big deal manhunt got banned yada yada.

this game WILL NOT!!!!! i doubt it'll even get rated 18.

its like saying pocahontas will get banned because hostel did. now you've put false information into many people brains from a senceless assumption, well done

Exactly - Manhunt got banned for this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywGR2Zf9aDM

Absolutly nothing like Age of Conan. Annimations totally different.

To ban a MMO would be extremly difficult to implement. Well the banning is easy, to stop people playing it is not. Unless you are sitting behind the great firewall of China that is. I imagine the same for Manhunt.

Originally posted by Lord.Bachus
The game manhunt 2 has been banned in the UK.

The game was shooting for a mature rating, but the english censors deemed the game so gruell that it was not fit for the general public. So they refused to give it any age rating which means the game can not be released in the UK.

Lets hope that our Conan developers will not change anything to this games setting.
Violent games in general are on the edge of being banned.

Banning a game only makes it more popular.  There are too many ways, given the internat, that people in any country can obtain any game of any language it was released in.  This is not something people will ever allow to be changed.  You can try to make it illegal all you want, but the more you push the more people will want it.

I loved Manhunt and thanks to this (to me) new information about the second game being banned in the UK pretty much made me all warm inside and I can't wait to play it!

I veru much doubt Age of Conan will be banned though.

I dont see the logic behind baning games.There is a rating system and if a game can be rated 18+ why take the next step and ban a game especially since ive seen way more violence in movies that were actually rated 16+

Is it because they fear that a kid will get his hands on the game regardless of the rating or is it actually used as marketing?

I mean a game being baned builds up alot of hype and you can always get a copy from the internet as the other posters have said