Australia's Game Rating Overhaul Delayed Again
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I hope everyone knows that the who reason why this issue exists in Australia is because stupid parents buy games blindly for their idiot kids without looking into the content before buying, they see the game when their child is playing and then start bitching about it, look at Black Opps, how many people have complained about it saw it only when their kids was playing it.
But anyway, with the politics, even after the NSW election, the overhaul still has to be approved by every state, including Queensland, a state that now probably has every video game, console and computer destroyed from water damage (or has a roof though it).
and even after that, doesn't it have to go though government, and knowing one of the independents, we'll be waiting a few months for him to finish bloody talking on the issue (not going to name who).
But anyway, with the politics, even after the NSW election, the overhaul still has to be approved by every state, including Queensland, a state that now probably has every video game, console and computer destroyed from water damage (or has a roof though it).
and even after that, doesn't it have to go though government, and knowing one of the independents, we'll be waiting a few months for him to finish bloody talking on the issue (not going to name who).
i've seen the trailers, it's about the same and Duke Nukem: Land of the Babes yet more graphical, infact, any tits in it can't be any reason for dumbbing down or banning the game because there was just as much in Playboy The Mansion and they let that in, not to mention they let in girls bouncing up and down with only panties on your lap in that game, and as for violence, there's nothing you can point out that isn't in or not as bad as what was done in Gears of War 2 or CondemnedZiadaine said:
best way to fix that, stick him on an island with a working game system (PS3, 360, PC, what every) and tell him he can only eat if he plays games and he can only leave when he becomes a gamer, that or we can kill him and teabag his corpse but that probably wouldn't help us but help prove that games promote violence and teabagging of corpsesUndead Dragon King said:
The thing about elections in Australia is they don't exactly have a fixed date. There's a date that they need to be held by, but a government either state or Federal can call it early, which means for most people we've only got an idea of what year it'll be held in rather then the month in that year.
It's a real pain in the arse that the NSW election is being held during the same that the State Attorney-Generals are supposed to be meeting, but the Attorney-General for NSW really can't attend as he is a member of current NSW goverment. That is to say if the current party acting as government loses said election the current Attorney-General will no longer be the state's Attorney-General as the new government will install their own from their own party.
It's a real pain in the arse that the NSW election is being held during the same that the State Attorney-Generals are supposed to be meeting, but the Attorney-General for NSW really can't attend as he is a member of current NSW goverment. That is to say if the current party acting as government loses said election the current Attorney-General will no longer be the state's Attorney-General as the new government will install their own from their own party.
Thats ok, we will just pirate all the refused classification games until the game companies buy our politicans too.
As much as I dislike the delay in the working towards an R18+ rating, the NSW election needs to go ahead. The sooner the Keneally government gets voted out, the better.
This is such a simple decision, and yet they're wasting so much time delaying it. It would have been passed long ago if it wasn't for the stupid Australian Christian Lobby. Those retards really need to gtfo and stop trying to bring their idiotic beliefs into politics.
The hilarious thing, as others have noted, is that both Bulletstorm and DNF were given a straight-up green light as MA15+ games. In other words, Australia's mighty rating system, which a substantial number of politicians and lobby groups must be maintained as-is to keep objectionable games out of the hands of children, is actually having the exact opposite effect: giving some of the most overtly offensive games in recent memory a lower age rating than anywhere else in the world. Australia is the only country on the planet where someone as young as 15 has the official okay to buy this stuff.
It's such an obviously dysfunctional mess, yet it's easier to snag a few votes by pounding on the "protect our children" line than it is to have thoughtful conversation about it.
(Not that that's unique to Australia. Sadly, that's how most Western democracies work these days.)
It's such an obviously dysfunctional mess, yet it's easier to snag a few votes by pounding on the "protect our children" line than it is to have thoughtful conversation about it.
(Not that that's unique to Australia. Sadly, that's how most Western democracies work these days.)