Sunday, November 23, 2008

Electronic Arts Responds to "pork company" allegations

With a computer congress in Munich led to harsh accusations against the gaming industry - among other things, has a sister and fellow Christian Pfeiffer criminologists of the publisher Electronic Arts as "pork company" means. EA calls for an apology.

"Should Ms. Regine Pfeiffer actually the text so lost and Electronic Arts as' pigs Company 'means, then I can only recommend that in any shape to apologize - in any case, if they wish to preserve the chance, again in the future to be taken seriously "Martin Lorber, PR chief of EA Germany, on request Golem.de said.

Regine Pfeiffer, media and fellow educator and sister of Christian Pfeiffer, the chief of the Research Kriminologische Lower Saxony, had at a congress on 20 November 2008, under the motto "Computer games and violence stand, publisher EA as a" pork company "means.

What concerns the political debate, Lorber is expected that with continued growing expertise on issues of youth protection will be discussed and exaggerated individual opinions were not pursued. "We are pleased to note that, increasingly, other aspects of our industry in the view taken, for example, under the initiative of cultural and creative industries, the federal government."

At the Congress was neither Lorber another invited representatives from EA. "The organizers had no interest in working with people to discuss the games, there have been criticized, produce," he said. "The first I was very sad because I have long been before the Congress have expressed my readiness, there speech and answer to stand. But when I hear now that there are low levels discussed obviously there was, I'm glad no time wasted on have. "

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