State of Decay also banned in Aus.

[SSJBlastoise]

Well, it appears the Australian government seems to be at it again, this time refusing classification for State of Decay.

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/06/state-of-decay-has-been-refused-classification-in-australia/

This one seems pretty simple to fix though, change the name of the drug used. Though it is easy to fix I still find it stupid that it should stop a game being classified.

This kind of thing is getting me worried about GTA 5 and future games availability in Australia.

What are your thoughts on this? Is this one a bad decision?

 

[Soopy]

It will only hurt the local retailers. Anyone with half a brain will just buy it from the UK, cheaper.

 

[Dryk]

This one seems pretty simple to fix though, change the name of the drug used. Though it is easy to fix I still find it stupid that it should stop a game being classified.

Can't have 18+ year olds learning that opiates reduce pain now can we

 

[BQE]

What a bizarre and draconian board this is. It's as if they are trying to outdo the ESRB. I honestly just feel bad for the Australian gamers, I hate the notion of somebody deciding what games are and aren't decent for me to play. I would suggest that they just add more warnings to the games to please these folks.

Because you know...people read those.

 

[Sudden Thunder]

It will only hurt the local retailers. Anyone with half a brain will just buy it from the UK, cheaper.

Its a digital download. It's not just the Australians suffering, us New Zealanders miss out too. Even though we have a classification system on a par with the U.S we miss out simply because New Zealand is close(ish) to Australia.

 

[SSJBlastoise]

Its a digital download. It's not just the Australians suffering, us New Zealanders miss out too. Even though we have a classification system on a par with the U.S we miss out simply because New Zealand is close(ish) to Australia.

I had heard this too, it really is stupid, especially when ours can often affect NZ's as well. Unfortunately the costs to submit stuff for classification is fairly high from what I've heard.

 

[Soopy]

Where there is a will, there is a way. Though I am fairly certain saying any more than that is against the board rules

 

[SSJBlastoise]

Can't have 18+ year olds learning that opiates reduce pain now can we

I know, it's not as if Max Payne 1 and 2 suggested we take handfuls of painkillers to heal yourself.

This whole situation is stupid and really does have me worried about GTA 5 now :/

 

[SSJBlastoise]

Where there is a will, there is a way. Though I am fairly certain saying any more than that is against the board rules

Well on the articles I've read many people have been playing it in Aus already by making a US account. Plus, I'm not to sure how piracy would work on a digital download XBL game, I'd imagine it would be extremely difficult but I will leave it at that and not go into it too much.

 

[Soopy]

The silly thing is, they just guaranteed people are going to buy and play these games (saints row, SoD). If they just left it alone, alot of people would not have given them a second thought.

 

[Anthony Corrigan]

personally I hope everyone of you gets caught by customs and charged for breaching the law. If you want things to change VOTE for them to change, put pressure on your local members to change the system instead of the apathy which causes labor to drift to the right and the Libs to drift to the loony fringe right.

 

[SeanSeanston]

personally I hope everyone of you gets caught by customs and charged for breaching the law. If you want things to change VOTE for them to change, put pressure on your local members to change the system instead of the apathy which causes labor to drift to the right and the Libs to drift to the loony fringe right.

Or they could vote for someone else, though only IF such a better alternative party exists (usually they don't, I guess), AND import the damn game as well! =D

 

[SSJBlastoise]

Or they could vote for someone else, though only IF such a better alternative party exists (usually they don't, I guess), AND import the damn game as well! =D

Yeah both sides are pretty bad so it won't make much difference.

The other problem with that is that, while it's a government board, it's independent so I doubt a change in leadership will actually mean a change in board members.

 

[Dryk]

personally I hope everyone of you gets caught by customs and charged for breaching the law. If you want things to change VOTE for them to change, put pressure on your local members to change the system instead of the apathy which causes labor to drift to the right and the Libs to drift to the loony fringe right.

What if we're already voting for alternatives? What if the rest of the country is too caught up in their two-party delusion for it to matter?

 

[Kittyhawk]

I feel your pain aussie gamers. Give these ratings fools some bad press and force change. Kick up a fuss and highlight films that do what State of Decay does like Day of the Dead.

Making a U.S account can get round it. Alternatively, State of Decay is due on Steam at some point. Its one of 2013's sleeper hits and it'd be a shame if aussie gamers missed it because of a few fools.

 

[nexus]

This is a human rights issue. They should have absolutely no authority do anything like this. Very unacceptable.

 

[Anthony Corrigan]

personally I hope everyone of you gets caught by customs and charged for breaching the law. If you want things to change VOTE for them to change, put pressure on your local members to change the system instead of the apathy which causes labor to drift to the right and the Libs to drift to the loony fringe right.

Or they could vote for someone else, though only IF such a better alternative party exists (usually they don't, I guess), AND import the damn game as well! =D

Try the Sex Party, the Greens, possibly the Australian Democrats, Gamers for Croydon, thats just of the top of my head (though I'm not sure if Gamers for Croydon will run again as there platform was that Attkins was a moron and that we needed an R rating)

 

[Woodsey]

This is a human rights issue. They should have absolutely no authority do anything like this. Very unacceptable.

It's a civil rights issue. You're only devaluing the concept of 'human rights' to label it as such.

 

[Anthony Corrigan]

This is a human rights issue. They should have absolutely no authority do anything like this. Very unacceptable.

It's a civil rights issue. You're only devaluing the concept of 'human rights' to label it as such.

Actually its neither, its a Law pasted by every parliament in the country (because this is a state issue that we have national consistency on), nothing more, nothing less. There are no "rights" in the US sense in Australia apart from the right to free movement between the states. Everything else is a law

 

[Ryan Minns]

Thank god that since release my Australian bought and living 360 suddenly believed it was American Very much been enjoying the game from the get go.