Forum Posts: 2434 | Comment #1 by Eternalchaos72 Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 10:50:20 AM | |
| i thot the ban was lifted from Oz? |
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Forum Posts: 661 | Comment #2 by ShieldWarden Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 10:51:06 AM | |
Is that technically banning, though? It's more like they're saying, "Not worth it."
Or would that be how the laws work... ? |
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Forum Posts: 18 | Comment #3 by Chum Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 10:54:33 AM | |
| Australia sucks. |
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Forum Posts: 3284 | Comment #4 by blackfalc0n Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 11:05:57 AM | |
| I'm not surprised. Australia have a really strict rating system when it comes to games. |
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Forum Posts: 934 | Comment #5 by nintendo64X Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 11:09:47 AM | |
@3
I agree, i live here :C
The ratings thing hasn't been fixed yet, its comming but too little too late! |
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Forum Posts: 934 | Comment #6 by nintendo64X Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 11:12:18 AM | |
| But look at the plus side....I got a US account, this wont stop MEEEEEE~ |
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Forum Posts: 13 | Comment #7 by AndyBeans Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 11:22:39 AM | |
The best way to protect children from adult games is not to ban them (and thus feed the blackmarket import business) but to provide appropriate classification. The rest of the developed world does it; unfortunately in the UK they don't go as far as legally enforcing games certification, which means idiot parents buy their little darlings adult games and then blame the games sector rather than take proper responsibility for their own children's welfare.
I'm not saying teenagers can't handle adult themes, most of them can handle a horror movie far better than me, I just don't want to see the games sector dumbing-down or abandoning decent games in fear of the next Fox News/Daily Mail "games made me do it" backlash.
@5 Wanna do a swap? You come to the UK and I'll go to Oz. It's been raining almost non-stop here for weeks, I'm starting to grow gills :( |
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Forum Posts: 2019 | Comment #8 by Manifest Density Pt. 2 Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 11:26:50 AM | |
its a game for christ sake.
maybe they should make parents over their take better care of their kids.
hell ive let my 5yr old play gta 4 for the last 2 years now.
so he's been playing ti since he was 3.
i stick him in a PRIVATE online free roam with cops and weapons off.
then for about an hour all he does is drive around in the cars, flys the heli or sails a boat depending on what he wants to do.
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Forum Posts: 934 | Comment #9 by nintendo64X Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 11:27:26 AM | |
@7
You'll love it when it's hot then >:)
The government had dumbed it down because they think its the right thing, but the ones missing out are the responsible adults, one state is going rouge and brining it early (not mine sadly).
Funny enough they are removing MA15+ as well meaning games like god of war may be out of kids reach, HURRAY!
Thank god im old enough, but wish these laws would of made the change years ago, the old governer general didn't want change (I call laziness!) but the new one let us request...we gave him the ok, now its the process that's killing us.
I had to import mortal kombat here, dang nabbit, I got the big american kollectors edition with the statues, if I got caught that wouldn't of given me a fine, just a loss of cash...but I didnt.
These fools, no wonder no one respects the government or its services here... |
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Forum Posts: 87 | Comment #10 by Goldjit Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 11:28:03 AM | |
Good God... when is that stupid rating system's revamp going to be into effect? I want my Australian brother's to have the same rights as us!
*bro hugs* |
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Forum Posts: 5 | Comment #11 by rattyinc Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 11:28:12 AM | |
LOL@ AndyBeans, The R18+ classification will come next year to Australia. It's already been rolled out in ACT....if you know where that it.
And It's been pissing down here in Australia as well ... well...Sydney anyways and now its freezing ... don't want to be here at the moment ... and winter hasn't even hit... |
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Forum Posts: 169 | Comment #12 by ChipperVA Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 11:29:28 AM | |
| That sucks. Australian gamers can't catch a break. |
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Forum Posts: 113 | Comment #13 by PS3zeeree11 Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 12:12:22 PM | |
| @8 LOL ive let my 6 year old cousin play GTA IV for the past couple years now and i stick him in a friendly fire on game (free mode) with other people in the game & its still not even bad. C'mon Austraila grow some balls! |
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Forum Posts: 116 | Comment #14 by Exedome Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 12:55:58 PM | |
| this is rediculous, I mean it looks like a bloody cartoon |
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Forum Posts: 1637 | Comment #15 by weephilymcvey Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 01:10:31 PM | |
| So adults in Oz cant buy ADULTrated games, hmm that makes perfect sense...australias's government need to grow a pair ffs! also means their losing money due to the import market that arises |
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Forum Posts: 39 | Comment #16 by shrink Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 01:13:25 PM | |
| @14 Literally. |
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Forum Posts: 93 | Comment #17 by Agios19 Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 02:18:58 PM | |
| By banning the games, they make them more tempting for the young ones. Forbidden is always more desirable. |
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Forum Posts: 344 | Comment #18 by Crippldogg Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 02:44:21 PM | |
| Couldn't they just make a US or EU account and download that way? |
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Forum Posts: 1090 | Comment #19 by I_Shoot_Stuff Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 03:00:09 PM | |
| This is a great game, too. |
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Forum Posts: 33 | Comment #20 by E4ZYNEM Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 03:03:17 PM | |
| @14 i do not have a problem with the game's graphics. the graphics art is beautiful. so shut up troll. |
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Forum Posts: 1738 | Comment #21 by Angry Gargoyle Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 03:13:23 PM | |
Sigh.
The extreme right wing religious faction of the government is still hanging on by their fingernails and won't let go. legidslation passed overwhelmingly but they have delayed royal assent until next year.
Why is it we are one of the few countries that allowed Human Centipede 2 but disallow far less extreme content in a video game.
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Forum Posts: 879 | Comment #22 by maVen007 Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 03:20:48 PM | |
| oh man bloody auzzie laws have to affect us kiwis, that sucks i was looking forward to it, im a huge walking dead fan |
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Forum Posts: 497 | Comment #23 by DarkByke Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 04:08:28 PM | |
| Can you still buy guns and porn in Aus? But not videogames? |
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Forum Posts: 8 | Comment #24 by Devalaous Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 04:54:50 PM | |
| The real question is, why the fuck does this affect New Zealand? We get a lot more snubbing than AU these days, and weve had a R18 rating for video games for as long as I can remember. |
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Forum Posts: 63 | Comment #25 by Lofi Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 05:19:42 PM | |
| At least we got The Avengers movie first lol!!! |
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Forum Posts: 1495 | Comment #26 by MTURNER1985 Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 06:05:42 PM | |
@7 you want to go to OZ because its raining in the UK? lol
If you live in England you should be thankful its raining after the drought you had! How many times in the past have the English had to pump fresh water from Scotland? I've lost count lol! However the government will still impose the hose pipe ban simply for money!
@17 you got it spot on! Even though im from UK, when i was younger the only reason i bought Manhunt was because i heard it was banned in some countries!
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Forum Posts: 607 | Comment #27 by amoremorte Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 06:15:29 PM | |
| FFS STOP BANNING EVERYTHING YOU USELESS OLD BASTARDS!!!!!! I'm so sick of this censorship I may just pay these old croons a visit and swear repeatedly into a megaphone in their ears, ugh got me do mad >:( |
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Forum Posts: 93 | Comment #28 by jay_oxford Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 06:25:03 PM | |
| *sarcastic clapping* good job government you strike again seriously why you hate us so much? What are we gonna do? Pretend we're zombies and start eating people??? Seriously tend to more important matters and slip this through... jeez |
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Forum Posts: 846 | Comment #29 by hungherk Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 07:22:41 PM | |
| wow that is just crazy harsh. |
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Forum Posts: 846 | Comment #30 by hungherk Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 07:24:24 PM | |
| sorry for dbl post but no edit button. the game looks amazing and i have been thinking about getting it too. |
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Forum Posts: 107 | Comment #31 by Cobalt Demon Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 07:33:00 PM | |
This is getting beyond a bloody joke (no pun intended), they ban this, but more graphic games like Ninja Gaiden 3 get through, the imbeciles who rate the games here are way too inconsistent, I swear it's like they pick and choose what really violent and graphic games get approved for release here rather than actually checking the content. Why are they banning games that shouldn't get banned lately, another good example of this was when they banned Dead or Alive: Dimensions (after it had already been released, mind you), but at least with that, they revoked the ban not long after and bumped it's rating up from PG to M.
This should be expected though, given how out of touch this government is. Oh well, at least I import any game that either doesn't get released here, gets banned or I'm just too impatient to wait for the Australian release. |
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Forum Posts: 37 | Comment #32 by tincann Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 07:39:06 PM | |
| Australia has passed a 18+ rating. It just doesn't go into effect until Jan 2013. How moronic is that. If it get passed, implement it now not almost a year later. My buddy just goes nuts over this. He just doesn't buy any games in his country. |
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Forum Posts: 182 | Comment #33 by dougbarrett619 Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 08:18:01 PM | |
| so happy to be in the usa sorryf or the guys who cant play it its mk all over again |
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Forum Posts: 69 | Comment #34 by Sleepy_Man Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 08:54:35 PM | |
| wait, what? NZ will be banned aswell? |
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Forum Posts: 42 | Comment #35 by Lucretia Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 09:46:23 PM | |
| who cares i live in australia bought it from US psn before even knew of this. |
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Forum Posts: 1551 | Comment #36 by UndergroundHipHopHead Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 10:14:46 PM | |
| I would be totally pissed. The game is awesome and not really that gory like day or dawn of the dead movies (that's gore is mostly just shock value). I'd only use a US account as my main account then. |
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Forum Posts: 74 | Comment #37 by Data Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 11:11:03 PM | |
| THIS IS GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKING SHIT!!! |
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Forum Posts: 625 | Comment #38 by P_Pigly_Hogswine Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 11:34:10 PM | |
| @3, Australia doesn't suck. Our nanny-state, geriatric, frigid fucking government sucks. |
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Forum Posts: 2472 | Comment #39 by Lord Tony Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 11:52:42 PM | |
| This should increase sales in other countries besides australia now. Controversy sells. |
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Forum Posts: 2 | Comment #40 by TrulyInfamous Friday, April 27, 2012 @ 03:09:57 AM | |
| My immediate first thought was "Why am I not suprised?" Austrailian officals are a teeming mess of ignorance and paranoia. |
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Forum Posts: 80 | Comment #41 by Zero resistance Friday, April 27, 2012 @ 03:47:48 AM | |
I really feel for the Australian public.
First MK now this, they really do have a nanny state government. |
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Forum Posts: 2964 | Comment #42 by scruffy8642 Friday, April 27, 2012 @ 06:19:51 AM | |
| I really dont care because ive never heard of the game before but there are many ways around it. For PSN games just make a US account and buy US psn cards. And for games like Mortal Kombat just order them online. You get fined if they happen to check your package but tonnes of my friends have done it and been successful |
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Forum Posts: 117 | Comment #43 by douggreen Friday, April 27, 2012 @ 06:46:41 AM | |
| @42 yes that's how to get any game you want. All the restrictions do is harm the Aussie economy. As banned titles can't be bought from Australian shops, Australia has to send profits from selling these games to shops in other countries (not that downloads make any difference. |
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Forum Posts: 0 | Comment #44 by RancidChop Sunday, April 29, 2012 @ 04:31:45 AM | |
The bans are only meant to get inforced to games with over the top "frequent gratuitous violence"(did i spell that right), violence against cops, terrorism and indecent sexual acts.
But then i can still buy GTA because theres no prostitution but still has cop killing, MW2 because they added the choice to skip the airport scene, Dead Rising and Dead Island.
So yeah its bullshit here in Aus, we spent the last few years having every waiting for the current Classification board to reach the end of their 7 year run(their only allowed to serve on the board for 7 years) because we were promised that we would get change.
Now nothing, ok so ACT has the reform but its also legal to smoke pot and have 2 plants as long as its contained within your premises(not sure if you still can though), their a lenient Territory so that doesn''t mean the rest of us will get it but even if some states do that doesn't mean anything will change as if its banned in Aus, its banned regardless of which state you live in.
Also while i'm on the topic, would the Australian Christian Lobby please fuck off and stop providing government officials with money for their campaigns so that in turn you get what you want done, what happened to the separation of church and state for fuck sake.
The ACL is one of the reasons this reform will never happen, i hope it does but i doubt it |
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Forum Posts: 30 | Comment #45 by twistenparp Thursday, May 17, 2012 @ 11:07:26 PM | |
| FFS. First I find out NZ miss out on Skullgirls, now I discover why we haven't got Walking Dead yet. So can I just create a new account on my psn and create USA psn store, download to system and play on my normal account? It's awesome that I'm 27 and am not even allowed to play a video game. We got Mortal Kombat (sorry Oz) yet we didn't get Manhunt, Saw and Saw 2. Mortal Kombat owns those games in the gore factor so wtf gives? I got a copy of Manhunt from Oz back in my younger days (still legal) and being the naieve child I was I tried to sell it online. Fail, got an email/call saying I had to sent it in to some douche for breaking law. I snapped it in half and rubbed it in dogshit before packaging and sending away. Learnt my lesson tho but wouldn't it be easier to just let the whole fucking world play every game and put a rating on it the same way you do with a porno? Government Y U NO HAS A SMART? |
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