The government held firm, however, and gamers across the country were arrested for playing games like Counter Strike. Naturally, Greek gamers were upset and attempted to appeal the ruling. They could have hired any random teenager to help explain the difference between the latest Zelda and a casino simulator, but they figured it’d be easier to just make the whole industry illegal. The Greek government knew that some video games were bad for you (in this instance, it was less about Grand Theft Auto and more about illegal gambling machines), but they didn’t know enough to distinguish which games might be okay to play. For nearly a decade, the ownership or playing of any video games (mobile or otherwise) was treated as a serious crime. If you lived in or visited Greece between 20, however, playing even a single, elvish frame could result in a fine from $4,980 to $74,650 and/or a stint in jail for 1 to 12 months. Obviously, there’s nothing illegal about playing Elf Bowling in a public park - you’ll just have to live with yourself. In America, the worst consequence for playing a Game Boy in public is running into a light pole while walking. From 2002 To 2011, You Could Go To Jail For Playing A Game Boy In Greece
Our KDR would be so much higher, probably. to jail with him! If only it were as easy to prosecute people with hacks in their controllers in America. Usually, that law is invoked to protect company trade secrets, but it’s also totally unfair to sell pre-leveled-up characters for online computer games so. When that news came out, Nexon didn’t even have to press charges themselves - the Kanagawa Prefectural Police Department did it for them.Īnd once that cheating dam burst, the Japanese police started arresting other cheaters such as Akihide Yamamoto, who was allegedly selling cheats for the online shooter Alliance of Valiant Arms, which violates Japan’s Unfair Competition Prevention Law. Of course, the fact that the teenagers were also selling their cheats and had actually made $80,000 in real world money, didn’t exactly help their case. Also, they’d become known in the community as "God Players” which is just pretentious. The players had made themselves essentially invincible, which in turn made the game exactly zero fun for everybody else. In 2014, three gamers were arrested for "obstruction of business" after Nexon claimed that the cheats hurt the game and its integrity. But that all changed when, instead of the traditional banning, Japanese cheaters in the game FPS Sudden Attack (which sounds like it was named on a dare) suddenly had to face legitimate criminal charges.
Sure, deceitful gamers get banned from online play all the time, but rarely will a giant company like Electronic Arts see much benefit in spending the time or resources to sue some punk 12-year-old. In all the years of online jerks utilizing cheats like aimbots, hacked controllers, exploiting level glitches and self-hacking by pounding Monster energy drinks until time slows to a crawl, no Japanese gamer has ever gone to jail for their treachery. Japanese Gamers Are Getting Criminal Charges Pressed For Cheating But every once in awhile, a love of video gaming can result in real-world legal trouble.
In fact, becoming a digital criminal may actually lower your desire to shoplift a couple jugs of Tide detergent from your local Target. The great thing about video games is that they let you commit crimes without actually having to face the consequences of flipping your stolen Mustang into a fuel tanker during rush hour.
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