SPD-Minister wants to ban games more.

Saxony-Anhalt's Justice Minister Angela Kolb (SPD) called for a tougher test methods for computer games, too violent to titles from the trade ban. According to Kolb could Tester titles not completely through. The verifier contradicts this assertion.

 

Too many minors used computer games, only for adults released, so the diagnosis of the Minister. Your proposal to remedy the situation: The test procedure, while the games release for users after a certain age, should be better.

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A scene from "Grand Theft Auto IV ': Saxony-Anhalt's Justice Minister Angela Kolb (SPD) calls for more bans on computer games

And seems better in this sense but also to say that more games do not go on sale. "Games in which violence is glorified and people at the current tape are being killed, are prohibited," said Kolb. Not meant to be with their claim, however, that the child protection experts from the entertainment software self (ESRB) bad job. The auditors did not the opportunity to fully examine.

In the past year was for 3000 Games sought admission. The 50 testers ESRB then have for each game five to ten days. "Bearing in mind that an experienced player from 70 to 100 hours on a computer game is, so you can imagine that the testers do not have enough time left for a game," Kolb criticized.

The ESRB decision contradicts this statement. Ruben limbo, one of the two full-USK blogs ONLINE Tester said: "We play all the songs completely. We do not know how the minister to come to the opposite sentiment. We have not asked about our work."

In higher level games, in which the depicted violence increases, the auditors did not. In their view, the fatal: According to the authorization, once granted it is no longer possible to legally later against known facts and approach the game from the market.

Producers should fill out questionnaires

Kolb pleaded not only for the experts more time to give. She also wants to more manufacturers to account. They should fill in questionnaires in which they provide information about the content of the game that his act, his duties and violent scenes. Then the testers targeted search and the evaluators to decide. So far, manufacturers in Germany are only available to the game and pay a fee. In other countries, they are committed to greater participation.

An intensive examination of the imposition of a restriction on age alone, the Minister seems not to suffice. The approval was for the manufacturers' a kind of clean. The game will be aggressively promoted, and awakens the interest of children and adolescents ". She called it appalling that a survey ten per cent of the Ten Years' Grand Theft Auto IV "as their favorite game designated. From the ESRB, the game is over 18 years released.

Kolb announced that they wanted the youth ministers of the countries for their concern to win, which the incumbent minors. "The justice comes at the end," said the Minister. "If we do there should not be heard, I will address that issue in the Justice conference involved."