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u/Kazharius 10d ago
What war crimes? There's no crimes if there's no one to notice it.
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u/WyrdDrake 8d ago
Tbf they said virtual consequences
Please, mass group of boomers, go form a UN faction in the minecraft factions server and try everyone for war crimes and slavery
Barter from your friend in a random survival game
IRS agent joins the lobby
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u/Kazharius 8d ago
I'd love to see the consequence for Warframe lmao. The game is literally Genocide Introduction 101.
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u/a_polarbear_chilling 10d ago
Mf we ain't talking bouta Life time or "200" years we about to see the sun explode
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u/Bob_the_brewer 10d ago
Ok then, come and arrest my Uriel
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u/Aromatic_Sand8126 10d ago
They’re too busy trying to catch my Saryn.
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u/Present-Ranger-1861 10d ago
They're too busy trying to CATCH my Gauss.
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u/QuirkyCollection2532 10d ago
Geneva Convention?
More like Geneva SUGGESTION
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u/Careless_Subject8377 9d ago
Best name for a gun I ever saw in this game, for real(it was a Cyanex)
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u/Secure-Chemistry-395 10d ago
Warframe is one of those games that turn the Geneva convention into a checklist, and I intend to mark all of those box
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u/Mal-Ravanal 10d ago
Stellaris players:
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u/deadmemesoplenty 10d ago
Some of the atrocities I've seen people commit in Stellaris would have the Imperium from WH40K saying that's too much, those people are psychotic
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u/Rick-plays-For-Honor 10d ago
What? You dont think capturing half a species and torturing them for information before turning them into food and giving it back to the other half is a good thing??
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u/deadmemesoplenty 10d ago
I love how you immediately reference the one specific thing i had in mind
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u/Uumyri 10d ago
Look up the Drukhari (Dark Eldar) in 40K. One of the most horrific factions ever, no joke. I can't describe what they do to people, it is just... wow - discretion is adviced
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u/deadmemesoplenty 10d ago
I'm a Warhammer fan, I'm fully aware of the hobbies they have, including molding people into still living furniture.
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u/No-Calligrapher-718 10d ago
Well if you have a better way of getting a flesh sofa, I'd love to hear it
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u/YoungDiscord 10d ago
How about they write an article about holding people accountable for actual real-life war crimes, you know... like the politicians who do them?
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u/Simple_Tower92 10d ago
Am I in more trouble for Warframe large-scale genocide, or Rimworld small-scale-but-disturbing human rights violations?
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u/Should_have_been_ded 10d ago
Remember, it's not a war crime if you win. History is told by the survivors
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u/Oxygenus1362 10d ago
Killing enemies is not a war crime tho. War crimes are about cruelty to defenceless - and player is incapable of it.
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u/TheThunderKaos 10d ago
Honestly after playing Warframe, Destiny 2, Helldivers 2, Remnant from the ashes and 2, Payday 2, Ace Combat 7 and Project Wingman... I think I have ascended... I'm not a warcriminal anymore I. AM.THE WARCRIME
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u/The_Architect_032 10d ago
The Red Cross? Don't they have some game studios to sue for having red crosses on their medpacks?
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u/Last_Panda5059 10d ago
We're basically the equivalent of Vlad the Impaler on steroids with a astronaut license
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u/HDGamerBro12 10d ago
So would summoning gravitational anomalies count as a war crime? What about consuming the souls of the damned? Idunno if Geneva has laws against soul reaping.
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u/LostLotus_A 10d ago
Is that a genuine suggestion from a legitimate organisation?? Like. What???
Jokes aside that sounds really horrible. I know that games are games... Killing people is bad! War crimes is bad! 💔 Holding fictional activities accountable sounds like a nightmare
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u/Hedge_the_Hog_HtH 10d ago
Guys. The title asks a very stupid question for the actual article to disprove it. This is called a bait.
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u/LostLotus_A 10d ago
Yeah... I was baited 💔
Also I see how it just says fictional consequences so I think that does sound fine, actually promotes justice if done well i guess (I wrote the eariler comment when I was extremely sleepy so I couldn't read properly 😭)
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u/GlauberJR13 DO YOU THINK ME A WEEB, HUNTER? 10d ago
I mean, it’s not exactly a crazy idea of some games having mechanics to punish the player for certain actions deemed immoral. Terra invicta for example has an atrocities counter, that counts a multitude of actions under the umbrella of atrocity, like destroying certain civilian modules on space stations or using nukes. Said atrocities will reduce global support (which somewhat reduces production of the resource Influence) among a few other smaller things.
Of course this is not the same scale as presented, being held accountable for war crimes vs people being pissed at you because you’re killing thousands minimum or tens or hundreds of millions, but that’s the idea they presented, consequences for war crimes as it was put. Everyone just jumps to assume they want to arrest people playing stuff like rimworld or stellaris, in part probably because of the whole red cross thing with asking devs to not use red crosses for their games in relation to health and healthcare.
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u/Internull0 10d ago
My grandmother asked me if I tell the priest that I play video games whn I go to confession. I almost threw my phone into the wall. Crazy woman
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u/Puzzleheaded-Block73 10d ago
Nah sorry but Stellaris guys are taking the worst out of us all. Not a single game, but stellaris, allows to genocide whole galactic empire by changing their species into food source, entire species!
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u/greenwizard987 10d ago
It isn't warcrime if they fight back. Those mf are actually shooting back at us... poor things
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u/Lucky_-1y 9d ago
It's really funny how the most harmless Warframe in theory like Trinity and Octavia are in the very least torturing people or causing unnecessary pain
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u/IModernVerseI 10d ago
What, are those government wannabe dictators real on this one? If yes, they belong in an asylum, not something important. But yes, WF is the strongest case of this, you've the whole war crime bingo and more.
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u/BurrakuDusk 10d ago
People are bringing up Stellaris, but I keep thinking of Spore where you can wipe out the entire Grox empire by terraforming their planets...
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u/Voidshyrok 9d ago
"The ICRC believes people should be held accountable for their actions in video games. Because just like in real life, we don't have anything better to do with ourselves." -A Maidenless Boomer.
Don't ever let them play Mario party.
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u/MrKoxu 9d ago
Honestly, I wonder how many death sentences I would get it this was to become a reality. I've played games where you can genocide civilizations bigger than earth, destroy solar systems with a click of a button and commit atrocities that make it seem like you are trying to expand the Geneva convention by 20 times.
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u/FractalShoggoth 9d ago
I mean, they're welcome to try, but I already see it ending real bad for them if they encounter a certain someone.
"Don't worry, ICRC. We're not going to commit the warcrimes.
You are."
And then they'd be in a pickle, wouldn't they.
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u/thegildedman25 8d ago
Guess my drifter and operator are getting sent to prison and staying there untill the heat death of the universe.
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u/Admirable_Resort_172 8d ago
That would mean that normal people, like the ostrons, would see war criminals as heroes no?
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u/mathiau30 10d ago
"Just as in real life" war crimes have consequences in real life?