GGL Wire

Carlos Alberto Simões de Tomaz, judge at the Minas Gerais’ District Court in Brazil, has decreed that both Counter-Strike 1.6 and EverQuest should be removed from the country.

Procon, a federal institution (ironically) created to defend consumers rights, has already started to remove all copies of both games from every store in the state of Góias, the first one to suffer the ban. This federal entity has also started investigating internet cafés that have to eliminate these games from all their computers. If any internet cafés don’t follow the court order, they will have to pay 3000 dollars and face being closed.

As of now, EA (responsible for the distribution of both games in Brazil) stated that it hasn’t been formally notified of the court order.

The custom CS1.6 map “cs_rio,” which is allegedly used as a test simulator for terrorists, is fingered as the reason for the game’s ban. As for banning EverQuest, Brazilian authorities claim that it leads the gamers “to total disorientation and psychological conflicts,” which is probably true. You’d have to be disoriented to keep playing EverQuest.

Update: Only distribution of these titles has been banned in Brazil.

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