I hate to have to bring up this OLD NEWS, but the topic is very important to me especially in my work of skinning German aircraft ...
Is this Fake News or is it true?
It seems to have been brought up in 2018 in several publications that ...
"The Entertainment Software Self-Regulation Body, or USK,
announced on Thursday that games including Nazi symbols
such as the swastika, whose public use is generally banned
in Germany, could now be sold if the symbols are judged
to serve an artistic or scientific purpose or are used in a
historical context."
Games should be treated the same way films are treated. Also, USK judges will decide if content has "an artistic or scientific purpose, or helps to depict current or historical events." Why doesn't someone contact USK regarding combat flight simulation games such as Warbirds, and well as our competition? I'm sure these kinds of historical simulations will be allowed. We perhaps simply need to ask!
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat- ... es-1133927
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/10/europe/g ... index.html
https://variety.com/2018/gaming/news/ge ... 202901769/
I saw no place reported a discussion of combat simulation games. Has anyone seen news regarding historic depictions of the swastika on military vehicles?
The following link (BBC) has additional not to mention interesting information regarding killing robots and crying koalas. Funny!
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45142651
If the answer is still "No Swastikas" in Warbirds, what about using the following symbol on planes?
or ...
In Battlefield 5, as of June 2019, this is their response:
Whereas games like Wolfenstein have you fighting Nazis
emblazoned with swastikas, the World War 2-set Battlefield 5
has sanitised the conflict. There are no swastikas (although
there are German Iron Crosses, a symbol used since by
Nazi-aligned groups). A story level where you fight on the
German side has you play as non-Nazi German conscripts.
And, here, EA has now stressed it is "not making any political
statements" about WW2, a conflict sparked by the rise of a
fascist political party, which was voted into power before
murdering millions.
"The aforementioned Elite, Wilhelm Franke, whose name we're
changing is not a Nazi, but a German solider similar to ones
we already have in the game," EA concluded. "In Battlefield 5,
we're not making any political statements in relation to the
real life events of WW2 and there are no swastikas in the game."
Not that choosing to make a WW2 game with de-Nazified
German soldiers is a political statement, of course.
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019 ... tlefield-5
