How video games fund weapon manufacturers

[milkandcooki]

Happens to airsoft guns, that's for sure.

I wanted to get a Scar-H as a Christmas present in 2009. Sold out everywhere because of MW2.

[arcticdrinker]

I buy my guns half the time because I love their history and collecting them

I mean sure, it's nice knowing you have the power with a gun but I don't beat my chest and yell when I shoot

[Insistent]

Gunnerd fund them

[Killuah]

[QUOTE=hypno-toad;39434421]Good point, however this still seems like stupidity on part of game designers. I'm still blown away that they'd pay good money (or enough money to qualify as "funding weapon manufacturers") just to use the name.

There's plenty of games that just use real guns and give them fake names, at the end of the day nobody really cares and they don't have to pay licensing fees.[/QUOTE]

Read the article please.

[quote] [B]There are plenty of games with realistic but not licensed guns that still glamourise the usage of that gun. I'm sure the revenue generated from a culture that glamourises violence in general in all forms of media, including games, out-earns the actual monetary gains from the licensing of the products directly."[/B]

Likewise, for this designer, the fact that gun companies use video games to market their products to young people isn't the primary issue. "This is what marketing does and this is a function of our current culture," he says. "This is a problem with how we make products appeal to people, including products that can lead to death.

"Gun companies marketing to young players is a symptom, not the problem. It's more systemically ingrained in our culture. I think to only worry about guns' effects on people is to ignore the real problems, because these are just far more difficult to solve. They involve more than just getting rid of the gun culture in America."
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[editline]8th February 2013[/editline]

[QUOTE=NuclearAnnhilation;39517881]I buy my guns half the time because I love their history and collecting them

I mean sure, it's nice knowing you have the power with a gun but I don't beat my chest and yell when I shoot[/QUOTE]

Yes and there is a reason why you (and many like you) like the history of guns much more than the history of the pressing iron.

Now ask yourself: what is that reason?

[editline]8th February 2013[/editline]

[QUOTE=trotskygrad;39439485]well I'm essentially saying that people wanting guns because of their efficiency in game is retarded no matter how you look at it, because games give a very limited picture of how a firearm operates[/QUOTE]

I think you might rethink your argument if you seriously think that people buy those guns because the games make them look "more efficient"

I'm pretty sure people aren't buying the [url=https://www.google.de/search?q=drive+jacket&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:de:official&client=firefox-a&channel=fflb&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=de&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=qD8VUe6DHcTYsgaP24DIAg&biw=1024&bih=512&sei=qz8VUY3DFMvIswa5-oF4#um=1&hl=de&safe=off&client=firefox-a&tbo=d&rls=org.mozilla:de%3Aofficial&channel=fflb&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=drive+jacket&oq=drive+jacket&gs_l=img.3..0l3j0i10i24j0i24l3.4844.4844.4.5876.1.1.0.0.0.0.223.223.2-1.1.0...0.0...1c.1.2.img._k9QhxOgnBo&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42080656,d.Yms&fp=6239b9b6f8a0ffc0&biw=1024&bih=512]Drive Jacke[/url] because they think it makes them drive better.

[Ridge]

Call of Duty: World at War made me buy a Garand. After 15 kills, I unlocked the bayonet.

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/A6YCbNSl.jpg[/IMG]

[SteakStyes]

Fake article designed to generate publicity for COD. I'm pretty sure there was a bigger increase in BB Gun sales due to how they were super effective in Fallout and Fallout 2. Then again, I guess they don't count because they are old games and all that.

[sp] Not being serious, just figured SOMEONE had to say it[/sp]

[trotskygrad]

[QUOTE=Killuah;39518626]
I think you might rethink your argument if you seriously think that people buy those guns because the games make them look "more efficient"

I'm pretty sure people aren't buying the [URL="https://www.google.de/search?q=drive+jacket&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:de:official&client=firefox-a&channel=fflb&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=de&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=qD8VUe6DHcTYsgaP24DIAg&biw=1024&bih=512&sei=qz8VUY3DFMvIswa5-oF4#um=1&hl=de&safe=off&client=firefox-a&tbo=d&rls=org.mozilla:de%3Aofficial&channel=fflb&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=drive+jacket&oq=drive+jacket&gs_l=img.3..0l3j0i10i24j0i24l3.4844.4844.4.5876.1.1.0.0.0.0.223.223.2-1.1.0...0.0...1c.1.2.img._k9QhxOgnBo&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42080656,d.Yms&fp=6239b9b6f8a0ffc0&biw=1024&bih=512"]Drive Jacke[/URL] because they think it makes them drive better.[/QUOTE]

errrr, people buy them because they look cool (efficient) in game?

[🦇Pachira🦇]

[QUOTE=Ridge;39518817]Call of Duty: World at War made me buy a Garand. After 15 kills, I unlocked the bayonet.

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/A6YCbNSl.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]

I like how CoD WaW actually made it so you can reload mid clip (Brothers in Arms does it too)

[Ridge]

Which I do compulsively. I can't imagine how much loose .30-06 I've left strewn across the Pacific...

[🦇Pachira🦇]

[QUOTE=Ridge;39521617]Which I do compulsively. I can't imagine how much loose .30-06 I've left strewn across the Pacific...[/QUOTE]

I like the sound it makes when you do the mid clip reload.

[Ridge]

Great sound. Not as great as a ping, though.

[Neat!]

you're all retarded, video games are the reason why IMI is releasing their Tar-21 in the states

they built a fucking factory here because they would make money off of the little chilluns looking for neat guns

i'll be damned if i give a cent to those jews tho

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