...But the hornets nest is full of Nazis, so, fuck those guys. I'll poke a Nazi hornet's nest.
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I came and wanted to see the Alt RIght being pissed off (because that's the title) and got nothing. I mean, unless the 3 twitter messages, from random nobody's, which was on screen for three seconds was all the outrage. Video seems more National Enquirer then Vice "news". We all hate Nazis is hardly news. More like a circle jerk imo. Anyway, call me disappointed

Yeah, the video did a horrible job at actually displaying angry alt-righters. But, nevertheless, Wolfenstein 2 is a good game worth killing some Nazis for. It was also interesting to see who of the characters in the game are in real life. The title probably came from Vice wanting the Alt-Right to look into the game that shows their comrades being virtually blown to bits in high resolution.

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Meh. In my experience, for years now, whenever there is a game with nazis in it, there's some idiot, usually some 14 year old kid who is not real clear on the facts, on the Steam forums or Youtube or wherever who posts some rant about how the nazis really weren't all that bad or whatever. It's nothing new and not really something to get worked up about, but given the news cycle, presented an excellent marketing opportunity.

Maybe the alt-right idiots should move tro germany. The first Wolfenstein is banned (still) and all following games are heavily censored or outright banned as well. And it's not just for the violence. Since Return to Castle Wolfenstein all games have removed Nazi insignia so you don't kill Nazis anymore but other made up groups instead (in RtCW the Nazis were renamed into the Wolves IIRC). The New Colossus contains all the violence in germany but no swastikas or SS runes.
What a load of Bullshit.

Love how these idiot reporters never get the history of the games right.
So forget about all the other wolfs it just went from wof3d to this did it?
Also it would have been a more entertaining video if that that furry mammal on reporters head lept back and forth from his head to the bald chicks head.

Anyway Die Nazi Scum!!!!!

First they came for Castle Wolfenstein...

Then we got away because they couldn't figure out the moon level.

There's a legal reason for that. In Germany, the law prohibits the distribution or public use of symbols of unconstitutional groups (flags, insignia, uniforms, slogans and forms of greeting) as part of an effort to 'de-nazify' the national culture following the end of WW2. The Wolfenstein games are chock-full of these symbols. You can see the effects of the law on other WW2-themed games as well, like War Thunder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strafgesetzbuch_section_86a

It's mind-boggling and depressing that in AMERICA in 2017, a game about killing nazis is at all controversial.

It's not, it's confected...

The alt right don't account for much of the population (although tripe like this is sure to drive more people towards them), but they have been blown up as the current threat to perpetuate the politics of fear.

Long story short, if poking anything is going to result in going to jail or getting dead, we should all keep our fucking hands to ourselves... ; )

@JustSaying and @draebor --

I was aware of the ban on Nazi symbols / flags / etc. in Germany, and (wrongly) assumed that meant that the country was just kind of trying to "gloss over" that part of history; not talk about it in schools, etc. A sifter (can't remember who offhand) set me straight a few years ago.

However, this does remind me of a thought that I had then: what about piracy?

Any games featuring Nazis have to be heavily edited to get a legal German release. But are there any extra considerations for piracy, or even people that buy the original versions of such games outside of the country and them bring them in?

The internet is really ramping up the speed of globalization, and it seems like it would be essentially impossible to enforce the ban on Nazi imagery in the digital realm. The best a government can hope to control such things is to try to keep them out of the mainstream. But the world is full of examples of failures to control such things -- lots of cracks in the Great Firewall of China, El Paquete in Cuba, etc.

So I'm curious if Germany even makes any attempt to add any additional measure to try to prevent piracy of media containing those things, and/or circumventing region-blocked access to such things in legitimate distributors like Steam.

@bobknight33, @Asmo, read the title more closely.
It's about the game, not the Nazis. The title is not "The alt right getting pissed off at a game".
If there were two alt right total and one is upset, the title is correct. They don't have to be a majority to exist or to have an impact....there were enough of them to tip the scales in the election.