World in Conflict Ships With Berlin Wall…
The upcoming release, World in Conflict announced that the collector’s edition would be shipping with a small chunk of the Berlin wall as a pack-in.
Maybe it’s just me…
But I’m kind of bothered by that.
I can’t even quite put words on exactly why, just yet. But the fall of the Berlin Wall was a big deal, and I’m not really comfortable with it being used as a marketing tool to sell a video game. I don’t know. What do you think?
July 27th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
It completely trivializes that whole history, which belongs to the Germans.
Is the Berlin Wall a Cracker Jack toy now?
While I’m sure a large portion of the world was emotionally moved by the fall of the Berlin Wall, the effects of its existence and destruction will never hold as much meaning for us as it does for Germans.
*THE* reason that the Berlin Wall was hated was because it physically, spatially separated families and a culture. The space it occupied is now Place = space with memory and emotional affect.
The geography of it can not and should not be denied. When pieces of it are shipped off to thousands of people all over the world, Place can not follow. Those pieces are meaningless to those without the framework of Place. Those pieces are now gimmicks. It’s sick.
July 30th, 2007 at 1:10 am
Very unsettling. I’m going to play the Holocaust card and say what would people think if the game was selling pices of Auschwitz. It’s an exaggeration but the Berlin Wall was the cause of many deaths as well (not on the sam scale clearly) and came to symbolise a regime that did in fact kill millions, just like Auschwitz did for the Nazis.
Still I could be overdramatising.