Well, I'd being thinking about this for a long time since I began playing the socom series, but didn't believe it possible. Anyway, if you've been watching the news you may have heard about the 7 home grown terrorists in the USA being caught by the FBI, well what you may not have known is one named Narsile Batiste is an active player of the socom series. His USA arena username is "Miami Plot" and his accounts on socom 2 and 3 have totalled over 700 hours.
Experts have began to believe that TV can encourage violence, as well as computer games, and now believe that it is possible that terrorism in computer games can encourage it. If someone from a young age was to see terrorism in every day live, they may deem it acceptable and it could one day lead to them becoming a terrorist.
Relatives of the terrorist spoke out to the news of the world, his wife commenting on him after he bought Socom:
"Before he played socom he was a kind loving generous man, we always did things together. After he bought it things changed, he stopped spending time with me, he kept sneaking out at night, I couldent understand. One time I asked if I could play socom and he told me to get out the room. People may think I'm speaking nonsence but socom changed him, for the worst."
Conspirators are claiming that Zipper is a nishe of the Al-Qaeda network, and using the power of computer games to target the younger audience and make more home grown terrorists. Zipper executive, Osama Mohammed Aziff claims these are riduculous false claims trying to ruin the companys good image.
As of yet there have been no other acts of terrorism in relation to socom, but there are various other examples of pieces of media encouraging anti-social and abnormal behavior. For example in Germany a pair of brothers thinking they're vampires and abducting an elderly lady and drinking her blood.
So I ask you the EU socom community, do you believe that socom could encourage terrorism, or just make it more acceptable? This is obviously a very crucial matter so please keep discussion orderly and on topic.