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Hi All,
New user here, I don't know if I am posting in the right area so just let me know since I have only been a member for a very short time.
I guess I really have one question being who let Jack Thompson spout his anti games sh!t to the Australian community?
Not sure how many of you are aware or care but Fallout 3 has been banned in Australia due to the country not having a censorship for 18+ on computer games. Anyway, the below is the link which details the issue and the morons behind it.
http://www.gamearena.com.au/news/read.php/4750383?latest=1
Any feedback on how we as a country should approach this and ultimatly avoid going down the path that people like Jack and the panel in the above video seem to want to force us without the freedom to choose, would be much appreciated.
New user here, I don't know if I am posting in the right area so just let me know since I have only been a member for a very short time.
I guess I really have one question being who let Jack Thompson spout his anti games sh!t to the Australian community?
Not sure how many of you are aware or care but Fallout 3 has been banned in Australia due to the country not having a censorship for 18+ on computer games. Anyway, the below is the link which details the issue and the morons behind it.
http://www.gamearena.com.au/news/read.php/4750383?latest=1
Any feedback on how we as a country should approach this and ultimatly avoid going down the path that people like Jack and the panel in the above video seem to want to force us without the freedom to choose, would be much appreciated.
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or uh, since that's vastly improbably for the huge majority of people, i guess write constructively angry letters to everyone you can in your local governments. on paper, generally speaking you're more likely to get a response that way.
austrailia is a PAL region.
EDIT: I guess... PC, maybe?
I imagine that most users here will aquire it by some means *cough* bit-torrent *cough* which will end up hurting Bethesda (or whoever is making the game). If its a online content people are after then more than likely it will get bought off of ebay from hong kong or somewhere where the shit is probably stolen.
Reading the Rock star thread I can understand why they are not even bothering to sell games in this country anymore...
If it's eventually available on Steam (possible, but I'm not sure I'd really say it's likely), you'd probably find plenty of people willing to help you out by paying into their paypal account and them gifting it to you.
People have been doing that already with Ubisoft games on Steam (available in the US but for some reason Ubisoft refuses to retail it anywhere else. Do they just hate money or something?)
Thompson is actually a pretty reasonable guy outside of conversations including the phrase "murder simulator". Remember his reaction during the press coverage of Mass Effect's sexual content?
"come on you dolts it's like five seconds long and it involves sexy blue aliens this happened like fifty times with captain kirk" (paraphrasing here)
Might not be entirely correct, that's just what I remember reading.
OP was making a joke or something, it's not Thompson.
Also I was going to quote Princess Bride but I don't want to offend any Australians, who are used to not being trusted.
So our Jack Thompson is silent and effective. Damn.
The guy isn't just part of the problem down here. He is the problem. No amount of facts will ever change his mind, and his power of veto is absolute. I know for a fact that the OFLC would prefer and R and X rating, it would make their job so much easier.
Interesting that this clown managed to stay out of the lime light though.
If that's a problem with you then you may want to postpone moving to the US until after 2008.
But put one gun into that scene and YOU'RE TEACHING OUR CHILDREN TO KILL EACHOTHER
I never asked for this!
Generally its the same script of "Hey, maybe we could not ban the games but make them rated in such a way that only people over 18/20/22/huuuuurrrrr could buy them?" which always gets a response of either "Well I've heard of these vidja game things before and ZOMG children!" or "Well I'm a mom and I don't know anything about video games but my sixteen children play them and OMG THINK OF THE CHILDREN!".
For fucks sake, seriously. Why is it that the people that are rating or banning game in certain places, are the people that know absolutely fuck all about them?
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Christ, I heard about that. Didn't the combine have green blood? I feel for you guys.
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This is why I bought a japanese ps3 and kept my modded ps2 for import ps2 games and general backwards compatibility. The japanese ps3 at the time was almost exactly half price minus shipping.
There there, it's going to get better.
We'll just wait till our generation takes over the control of this country, and then we can play all the adult games we want while censoring the up-and-coming new medium of the time.
Man, the future totally rules.
Is it coming out for PS3? PS3 is region-free.
My flatmate's american copy of GTA IV runs just fine on his unmodded PAL PS3.
Now, Bavarian (?) politics regarding games are a completely different story. Murder simulators indeed.