Gamers Beware: The Red Cross is Coming for Your Virtual War Crimes - Kotaku In Action 2

Gamers Beware: The Red Cross is Coming for Your Virtual War Crimes (www.worldpoliticsreview.com)

posted 1 year ago by FatalConceit 1 year ago by FatalConceit +26 / -1

The Red Cross Wants Gamers to ‘Play by the Rules’ of War

A new initiative by the Red Cross called “Play by the Rules” encourages players to not commit war crimes within video games.

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– Wizardslayer 4 points 1 year ago +4 / -0

I really want to know what war games are encouraging these "crimes". Most games don't let you do anything that the red cross is accusing of them of doing because it is simply not fun and pointless in a game.

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– CatoTheElder 4 points 1 year ago +5 / -1

Just in the games I have played in the past month:

Rising Storm 2: Vietnam: blowing the hell out of churches and schools with bombs napalm and flamethrowers, Using anti personnel mines (fougasse, toe poppers, and tripwire traps), a marginal case of using white phosphorus against troops.

Warframe: Using all three of Nuclear Biologial and Chemical munitions. Anti Personnel mines, extra judicial killings of politicians and the like.

Rimworld and Stellaris: No explanation needed.

Barotrauma: Mostly just targeting civilians and spreading biological weapons. (Death to the Honkmother)

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