9 Video Games Banned For Ridiculous Reasons
8. Football Manager 2005 Banned In China Because Of Taiwan
If you love football and video games but hate the real time fast paced excitement of a game of FIFA, you're probably a Football Manager fan - or you're just really into budgeting. Football Manager is perfect for budgeting fans.
FIFA and Football Manager both have strong fanbases. Both are great titles, but only Football Manager drew anger from China.
Oh yeah, they really p**sed off China.
Football Manager 2005 featured Taiwan and Tibet as separate autonomous countries rather than implied regions of the People's Republic. China doesn't recognise Tibet as a separate nation, and the relationship between China and Taiwan is a whole other complicated situation.
China's Ministry of Culture promptly banned the simulator, stating that it could "pose harm to the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity".
The oddest thing about this story is that the game was never officially released in China, but gained notoriety and publicity from players downloading it off the internet. This is especially odd as the Ministry of Culture also stated many of China's citizens were angry over the addition of Tibet and Taiwan.