[TheSwede75]

Having played my fair share of COD, MW2 and Black Ops I would unfortunately say that the 'Make a friend outside of the US' vs. 'Screw you towel-head' ratio in general does NOT provide a base for improved foreign relations or 'bridge building'.

Glad that it does happen though.

[maukdaddy]

Ugh not to mention the constant stream of gay slurs and swastika emblems.

[malkia]

What's the problem with swastika emblems?

Do you live in Germany?

[dhughes]

It's not a swastika emblem which is quite common it's the red, black and white Nazi Swastika which symbolizes extreme hatred and violence.

You don't have to live in Germany to be affected by it, I'm sure quite a few of us have grandfathers who are no longer here because they fought against the hatred and violence which the Nazi Swastika now symbolizes.

[malkia]

I'm not for or against nazi symbols.

But I believe the future generation needs to be told exactly what happened so that history does not repeat it's most horrific moments

But my first question was simply legal. I was tasked for few days to write a tool that reextracts textures from all Black Ops SKUs and verify that we did not accidentally ship illegal content for say Germany. Each country is a bit different - allowing certain things, not others

I for one am glad that Germans take nudity so natural, unlike here in US where violence is taken so natural (my experience)

[tomjen3]

I don't know how to say this nicely, but nobody seems to care about displaying the Soviet flag, though they killed a lot more. Maybe it's just time to bury the hatchet.

[bluekeybox]

Although I would typically be the first to attack any positive mention of the Soviet system, the number of people who died under Soviet regime (yes, it was probably larger as you mentioned) is mostly due to the extreme power wielded by Stalin during his time at the helm. After Stalin's death, the communist party tried to distance itself from the crimes committed by him. So it's a bit unfair to compare fascism to communism -- you should compare fascism to stalinism instead. In addition, even if you compare fascism to stalinism (both very scary systems), fascism looks a bit worse, not because of the number of people who died, but because unlike stalinism which was mostly a culture of fear, fascism was really a culture of hate all the way down the hierarchy.

[malkia]

Yes... Also this "road" can lead us to US slavery period... Should we prohibit from display all flags, emblems from that era?

[maukdaddy]

I was referring to the user-generated emblems, not the standard game art.

I'm tired of listening to American kids using near-constant racial slurs and using a Nazi swastika as their emblem.