State of Decay also banned in Aus.

[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.

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

Wikipedia doesn't seem to agree.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Australia#Australian_Constitution

Besides which, the terms still apply. Just because it isn't violating an enshrined civil right does not mean it isn't an issue which pertains to civil rights.

 

[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

Wikipedia doesn't seem to agree.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Australia#Australian_Constitution

Besides which, the terms still apply. Just because it isn't violating an enshrined civil right does not mean it isn't an issue which pertains to civil rights.

Might help if you read the link

: ss 41 (right to vote), 80 (right to jury trial for indictable offences), 116 (freedom of religion) and 117 (freedom from discrimination on the basis of State residence).

Of course that is actually wrong anyway, its not freedom of religion in the US sense, its that the FEDERAL government may make no laws which either require a religious test for an office or set up a state religion. That's because that is a state power, not a federal one

 

[Jezzy54]

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.

Are you sure? After a censored version of Silent Hill: Homecoming was released, I was able to get the real version during a trip to New Zealand. Also, why would shipping routes affect a downloaded game?

 

[nexus]

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.

I'm not "devaluing" anything, but you're correct a more appropriate term is "civil right". I would still consider freedom from censorship and restriction of arts, a human rights issue however.

They've also "denied" Saints Row 4. It's clearly a serious problem over there.

 

[daveman247]

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.

Are you sure? After a censored version of Silent Hill: Homecoming was released, I was able to get the real version during a trip to New Zealand. Also, why would shipping routes affect a downloaded game?

I'm thinking Aus and NZ share servers or something for xbox live.

OT: Damn, I knew that was going to happen as I was playing it. I knew collected bags of drugs (both legal and otherwise) for healing was not going to go over well.

 

[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.

Are you sure? After a censored version of Silent Hill: Homecoming was released, I was able to get the real version during a trip to New Zealand. Also, why would shipping routes affect a downloaded game?

There's no physical copy of the game. I'm not sure of the specifics but they must have to pay classification for approval or something like that. As part of Australasia its most likely one fee for both countries. if the larger country wont allow it then NZ the smaller one wont either. As another example we only just got TellTales Walking Dead (digital) several months ago. Its not a new experience for us. However Xbox NZ has recently said they wont make us wait for Australia to catch up and are making moves to have it released soonish. With the problems they are having with their patches I'm not too worried in this instance that I have had to wait.

 

[Rickin10]

Poor Aussies, and they don't even have a decent cricket team to ease their pain.