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[ggrobot]

Last week we heard from Iranian gamers who were upset how Battlefield 3′s story portrayed the country in the singleplayer campaign, where Iranian terrorists get hold of a nuclear weapon. Now Battlefield 3 has been banned in Iran completely, and not only that, videogame shops have been raided and there are reports of

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[Kompressor]

It's funny how Iran is so insecure that it has to ban a video game.

[Ozieo]

I don't know if this has to do with insecurities, why hasn't any game been made about Irak fighting the evil West with its lies to its citizens about how the "enemy" had almost the same weapons they had ?

Imagine there were computer games in the times of the Vietnam war, do you think Vietnam would let its citizens play computer games created by the enemy simply to portray them as "the bad side".... It just doesn't fit.

Imagine there were computer games in the times of the Vietnam war, do you think the West would let its citizens play computer games where you had to kill the evil Americans and save Vietnam from the flawed censorship they call "Democracy"..... It just doesn't fit either.

Politics aside, I just think they banned it because of the horrible quality it has compared to its predecessors, and the majority of players returning back to BFBC2 or others and not falling for the desperate attempts at keeping the crowd interested with some rapidly assembled payed-for extra map packs that should be in it by default anyway.

[Gaz]

Iran
Is insecure! I'm from Brazil, movies, games, and news love to show something bad and exaggerated from here. But hey, they are talking about, that's what really matters.

Like they say "who owes nothing has nothing to fear".

[tride]

So Germany, New Zealand, Australia, Austria ... they are all insecure ? Right ?

[Gaz]