iPhone Brings End Of World: Woman Seeks Ban Of Drug Wars Clone
I think it is pretty safe to say that most people realize that games like Drug Wars have very little basis in reality. The game is essentially just a glorified stock market game. Buy low, sell high, that sorta deal. The game has been around for over a decade in some form or another. The fact that it is making it's debut on the iPhone under the new name Underworld should not come as a shock to anyone.
It shouldn't be a shock unless you're an over-zealous mother. According to UK Tabloid, the Daily Star, Thelma Packard wants the game banned.
My daughter's life has been ruined by drugs. If this game is allowed to come out, impressionable kids will play it and Amy's mistake will be repeated over and over again. Youngsters like Amy are exactly the people who download and play games like this on their mobiles.I just want to help other families avoid the nightmare that's wrecked mine.
While I understand that what this woman went through was horrible, I'm sure most rational people realize that the virtual act of buying and selling virtual narcotics will not cause someone to become a back-alley heroin junkie. The real question is, how is Apple going to react to this woman?
Heroin Victim's Mom Wants iPhone Drug Dealing Game Banned [Game Politics]
Asterick
Posted to Video Games on 8 December 2008
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I played a game about World War II, the suddenly, I opened a book, and it was THERE RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME, World War II really happened, apparently.
Won't someone please think of the children, these pedallers of vile filth.
Obviously, I'm on the stop censoring things with kneejerk reactions side of things.
Everyone should inject some happiness into their lives every now and again.
I'm more upset about people in a civilised place using iphones, it makes a mockery of what someone died for once.
Oh know! I played that game in high school and now I am a total junkie. Oh wait... that didn't happen...
Either way, I imagine Apple will probably just make the game go away quietly as that seems to be their MO anyway.
Won't someone think of the children?!?!
"Christian Bookstore" Wars in 3... 2...
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, since I haven't played Drug Wars on my TI-83 calculator since high school, but I'm pretty sure that the game doesn't actually encourage the use of drugs, only buying them and selling for a profit.