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    Quote Originally Posted by ArchieChoke View Post
    Or bloody hell get more creative, seen too many simulators of killing animals. Why not for once in our life time will we make a game where you stop or hunt the poachers? I would def buy that game, Track and monitor the poacher till he points a gun at an animal and you take him out.
    +1 I like that idea. It would be so awesome if someone can do that and then the proceeds go to some Rhino charity.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ArchieChoke View Post
    Or bloody hell get more creative, seen too many simulators of killing animals. Why not for once in our life time will we make a game where you stop or hunt the poachers? I would def buy that game, Track and monitor the poacher till he points a gun at an animal and you take him out.
    There is a game reserve which hired a former SAS soldier to train their rangers to fight poachers. It's now like a sniper unit with extreme camouflage training and perfect marksmanship at 600m with iron sights. They're basically training SAS level soldiers to protect our rhinos.
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    I played one of the Cabela's games a few years back, i think it was dangerous hunt back in 2005.

    The aim of the game was to hunt not to poach.
    But yes i would also suggest that they just removing any endangered animal from the game. Let the person hunt an impala or Koedoe or whatever they want, but just not an endangered animal. They could add the animals to the game but once you aim on it your the gun does not shoot, something like disabling friendly fire in other games.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lycanthrope View Post
    While I find the concept absolutely abominable. I feel that it's pixels. It's not real and if it means people aren't actually going out there killing real animals instead then by all means, work it.
    I agree. it's like blaming the violent behavior of psycho kids on video games

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    Quote Originally Posted by MalicE View Post
    I agree. it's like blaming the violent behavior of psycho kids on video games
    Fair enough, but that's not what worries most of us. It's the hit this does to spread for the awareness of endangered species. If the game at least penalizes you whenever you kill an endangered species, that I would be fine with.

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    sho, i feel a lot of double standards here. we complain about the gaming industry not being accurately portrayed when there is a question about gaming violence in the media. or some ethnic group complains about being singled out in a game and we shrug it off. we kill millions of people in CoD every day (look up the recent statistic "Call of Duty By The Numbers") and yet we don't bat an eye-lid. then when you can kill a lion or a rhino and now its bad?

    we are a bit sensitive about poaching in our country, and rightly so. beautiful creatures are being wiped out thanks to greed, misinformation and narrow-minded views. that wont stop me from shooting a coyote in GTA V or a tiger in Far Cry 3, for the same reason i wont stop shooting a gang-member in the face.

    gaming is my inconsequential escape from the real world. there is no consequence in the real world to what i do in the virtual world. thus i have no problem with hunting simulators. then again i am able to distinguish the difference between the two.
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    @Oltman

    Humans aren't endangered so its ok to shoot them in a game
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    Hmmm....would be awsum man.especially if you had to chase down run away poachers with vehicles and added advantage of knowing the roads to cut them off.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Clive Woofer View Post
    Fair enough, but that's not what worries most of us. It's the hit this does to spread for the awareness of endangered species. If the game at least penalizes you whenever you kill an endangered species, that I would be fine with.
    yeah, I understand. but then by that logic you should expect GTA to penalize you whenever you kill a pedestian

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    I have killed millions upon millions of people in games, not once did I plan or kill one in real life, not even when I was hijacked. In fact games had quite the opposite affect the more I killed people in game the less I had a urge to do so IRL.

    What I am basically saying is I don't see this game as promoting killing animals, in fact it does the opposite. It takes the edge off of doing it real life. I don't know the content of the game, but it would be cool if they have info cards or like a mini Wikipedia about the animals in the game teaching you about the animals, habits and that they are soon to be a extinct creature if that is the case.

    PS poachers don't do it because its fun, they do it because there is a money value to it, remove the value and you remove the need to poach.

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