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Pastimes : The United States Marine Corps
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To: Bob who wrote (5933)9/10/2010 4:10:23 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 6227
 
It depends on what you mean by "where do you draw the line". I'd say there are multiple lines.

1 - The line where you decide "I don't want to buy that game", is easy to cross.

2 - The line where I would be seriously pissed about the game, would be harder to cross for me.

3 - The line where I would refuse to buy any game from the company again and/or where I would support a campaign of denouncing the game, or pressuring the company to drop it or edit it would be much further still.

4 - The line where I would support using even the most indirect use of government force against the company would be very hard to cross indeed. It would require something on the order of child pornography in the game.

None of the games you mentioned would really go beyond more than the first line for me, at worst they might come close to the 2nd, but probably not cross it, certainly not the 3rd of 4th.

What do you think about Opfor exercises? Sure they are more practically important but they are also games (if highly realistic training games) where one side takes the role of killing American service members. Or what about paper and counter or miniature wargames? Should anything involving the US (and thus requiring one side opposing American forces) be tossed out because its offensive?
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