It'll register through Steam, which means it wont matter where you import it from.ThingWhatSqueaks said:Solution: import a version of the game from a country with a lessretardedcensor-boner...hmmm I can't in good conscience argue that the US or UK governments are less idiotic than the government that is found in Australia but at least, I guess, the US government didn't feel the need to mandate censorship of this particular game. So yeah, import the US version.
The board operates within the standards mandated by FEDERAL law. So changing the application of FEDERAL laws WILL impact the board and how it rates games.Blitzwing said:It wouldn?t matter since the ratings board isn?t a government body and its members aren?t voted in.Ultratwinkie said:I doubt they will listen to angry foreigners who don't vote.1Life0Continues said:I...I kinda hope they do remove it for everyone.
Now, bear with me, before...put the pitchfork down, please...before you eviscerate me. I'm Australian.
By removing this content, and stating outright why they did it, Deep Silver will put the global gamer focus on Australia and its broken rating system. By broken, I mean, it clearly isn't in line with the similar systems around the world in terms of what it allows.
A global furor over the content being cut would hopefully force the Australian Govt to review it's archaic ideas on what adults are allowed to have, and hopefully bow to putting less draconian regulations in place to align with the ratings systems around the globe.
The Australian people obviously can't do anything about it, we tried and look what we got. A half baked solution. So if it takes the whole world turning on us and glaring to get the damn rules changed, I say bring it on.
I could just be reaching, but something has to be done, and if Deep Silver have the guts to do this, I for one would applaud them.
Its better to just not sell in Australia anymore until they fix the ratings system. That way people WILL get angry when they are cut off from all games and put huge pressure on government. After all, these are all citizens with voting power.
And why is our system broken exactly, because we say the some stupid peace of shit game needs to clean up it?s act before it can be sold here? That?s a good thing it shows that we actually have standards.
Your logic is correct, but it had happened before - In Fallout 3 they changed Morphine to Med-X because of the Autralian classification board, and the change was made to all English versions. This isn't a problem in this case, but it does prove that a game could be changed for everyone just because they didn't approve of it.soren7550 said:BoogieManFL said:Sounds like it was cut for everyone. Why not just cut it for them.
The rest of us understand it's a game enough that we could still have it. :/DataSnake said:The big question: will the mission still be in the non-AU release?AntiChri5 said:Is the edited version worldwide, or just for Oz?
Gaming has always been fucked up here, but i don't think we have ever managed to ruin it for everyone before.I don't see why it'd be cut for the rest of the world, seeing as (as far as I'm aware), Australia is the only one that has a problem with it. I mean, the Dildo Bat was essentially removed from the Japanese version of Saints Row the Third, but that didn't mean the rest of the world lost it as well.Desert Punk said:I hope it remains uncut for the rest of the world.
I dont need some retards in the aussie government deciding what I can and cant handle half way around the world.
You live in Australia. You (hopefully) vote. There's at least a chance the government there will listen to you if you complain effectively enough. They don't owe the rest of us anything and don't have any reason to change just because we complain about them - not that that keeps a lot of us from complaining anyway. Getting the 18+ rating created was a good start. Now you just need to push your benevolent overlords to actually apply it in a way that makes sense. In my own opinion the best way to get people in Australia to push for change in Australia would be for Volition, and any other company dealing with this kind of mess, to refuse to make these changes and not release the game in Australia at all.1Life0Continues said:I...I kinda hope they do remove it for everyone.
Now, bear with me, before...put the pitchfork down, please...before you eviscerate me. I'm Australian.
By removing this content, and stating outright why they did it, Deep Silver will put the global gamer focus on Australia and its broken rating system. By broken, I mean, it clearly isn't in line with the similar systems around the world in terms of what it allows.
A global furor over the content being cut would hopefully force the Australian Govt to review it's archaic ideas on what adults are allowed to have, and hopefully bow to putting less draconian regulations in place to align with the ratings systems around the globe.
The Australian people obviously can't do anything about it, we tried and look what we got. A half baked solution. So if it takes the whole world turning on us and glaring to get the damn rules changed, I say bring it on.
I could just be reaching, but something has to be done, and if Deep Silver have the guts to do this, I for one would applaud them.
There's no hopefully about it, voting is mandatory here.Roander said:You live in Australia. You (hopefully) vote. There's at least a chance the government there will listen to you if you complain effectively enough.
I've never tried that, does it work?Evil Smurf said:It's cool, I have. UK steam key ;D
It works for L4D2.RicoADF said:I've never tried that, does it work?Evil Smurf said:It's cool, I have. UK steam key ;D
If so I think I'll need to cancel my australian steam pre-order ;-)
I know it worked when my friend sent me L4D2 via gift, nice to know you can activate keys that way too, thanks.Evil Smurf said:It works for L4D2.RicoADF said:I've never tried that, does it work?Evil Smurf said:It's cool, I have. UK steam key ;D
If so I think I'll need to cancel my australian steam pre-order ;-)
No problem, maybe we can Co-op.RicoADF said:I know it worked when my friend sent me L4D2 via gift, nice to know you can activate keys that way too, thanks.Evil Smurf said:It works for L4D2.RicoADF said:I've never tried that, does it work?Evil Smurf said:It's cool, I have. UK steam key ;D
If so I think I'll need to cancel my australian steam pre-order ;-)