Brazil Bans Everquest, Counterstrike; Orkut Still OK, Though

Posted on January 21, 2008 by Scott Jennings| 18 Comments

Apparently Brazil’s legal system has about an 8 year lag time, as they’ve just banned the top online games of 2000.

Both games allow players, typically teenage boys, to connect online to fantasy worlds where they interact with other players, form groups and carry out joint missions usually involving combat.

Kotaku has more details, which may or may not make things clearer, depending:

It’s alleged EverQuest is harmful because players are asked to accept both “good” and “bad” quests, the psychological burden of which is said to cause problems.

Well, that’s that, then.

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  • http://bdadv.blogspot.com Bonedead

    That’s messed up. A few years ago when I followed “pro” cs news I remember there was always a decent presence from Brazil. Sucks for those guys. But hey maybe they’re good enough to get bought and moved into a LA studio like some friggin people.

    I’d hope this all wasn’t fueled by the WoW gang or whatever. I know someone here remembers it. Some guy got his gf to play and try and rope in unsuspecting guys or something like that and basically they torture the dude for his account and password to WoW.

    I guess I feel bad only for the Counter Strike kids though, poor lil fellers.

  • Pat M.

    “The judge, Carlos Alberto Simoes, ruled that the games encouraged “the subversion of public order, were an attack against the democratic state and the law and against public security.” ”

    So… people making there own choices about what to do in the privacy of their own homes is an attack on the democratic state? I know it’s become an internet cliche, but…

    1984!
    1984!
    1984!

  • yunk

    It’s so much easier to not have to make decisions. that’s how you learn and grow into a mature adult: don’t do anything. Always win because there’s no score, always get promoted and patted on the back. And never have to make difficult choices. That’s how good parents create sound young adults!

  • Merkwurdigliebe

    This is the LEAST of Brazil’s problems.

  • http://antipwn.wordpress.com/ Iain Compton

    I’d hope this all wasn’t fueled by the WoW gang or whatever. I know someone here remembers it. Some guy got his gf to play and try and rope in unsuspecting guys or something like that and basically they torture the dude for his account and password to WoW.

    That was a top rated Gunbound player. Gunbound is basically Worms with RMT, not really anything to do with MMOs.

  • http://tagn.wordpress.com/ wilhelm2451

    Who was it who said that without temptation, without the possibility of sin, there is no virtue?

    I’m going to go our on a limb and guess that, four or five years down the road, when they actually get to WoW, “For the Horde” isn’t going to get a favorable pass either.

  • http://www.thisisnotacommunity.org D-0ne

    It’s not a big deal for Brazil… Brazil is impotent when it comes to law enforcement.

    Brazil’s homeless children are murdered in the streets, their bodies thrown in a river and no one cares. The murder isn’t even investigated.

    Laws governing online games? Brazil is going to do what? Get some headlines? Bwahaha…

  • http://grumpyorc.com/index.php?blog=6&title=brazil_wax&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 Smashed Goblin

    trackback

  • blachawk

    Something doesn’t seem right with this phrase from the article: “based on the motor powering the popular Half-Life game”.

  • Dartwick

    I have heard of this Brasil place.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(film)

  • Dartwick

    Bastard HTML.
    Try this
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/

  • http://auriumsoft.com.br/blog Alfred R. Baudisch

    Fot the guy who said “Brazil’s homeless children are murdered in the streets, their bodies thrown in a river and no one cares. The murder isn’t even investigated.”.

    Well, I live in Brazil and I dont see this happenning. What I only see and hear is about the fucking up USA did / is doing to Iraq, etc children and women. That is the end of world and moral. Then most people have no right to even say an “A” about another country before looking at his own. Its always the USA fucking around. But USA people try to hide themselves looking to 3rd-world countries problems.

    Then what is the best “headline” D-0ne? “USA kills 1 million Iraq Kids” or “Brazil banishs a stupid game”?

    That is something to worry, lol.

  • Kunikos

    The divide between rich and poor in Sao Paolo is pretty bad. I watched the Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations travelogue to Brazil and the disparity was pretty shocking.

  • Toastrider

    You keep telling yourself that, Baudouche.

    Maybe you’ll get lucky and you won’t get your very own Chavez.

    But I’m not betting on it. Like cancer, communism has a nasty tendency to metastasize into otherwise healthy countries…

    –TR

  • yunk

    Actually Baudische are you criticizing the Brasil media or the US? Because they are afraid to look at problems in their country and instead pointing the finger at others?

    It is like Der Spiegel in Germany runs articles. In one article last year they traveled to some PA coal mining town where everyone is out of work due to the industry going away, and used the opportunity to blast Bush. Of course wouldn’t the readers in Germany be better served by Der Spiegel looking at Germany’s horrible double digit unemployment and examining ways to solve that than having to go out of their way to find small towns based around expiring industries amid the US’s 5% unemployment? Just a crazy thought.

    Keep people always angry at others instead of looking at ourselves. It’s hardly new and a defense mechanism people, governments, lobbyists, media, all over the world etc use quite often.

    But that’s the benefit of a free press and now the internet, there’s always someone willing to tell an alternate version.

  • doob

    Ha, bardouche.

  • doob

    baudouche, w/e

  • http://viviannedraper.blogspot.com Vivianne Draper

    now if they’d only ban secondlife my life would be complete. ok maybe not but that would certainly help