Austrailia refuses to classify yet another game...

This week time it happens to be Silent Hill: Homecoming(gore). In the past Fallout 3, GTA4, etc were all unrated and unsellable at most retail outlets in that country. Any Aussies out there agree with their governments policy of censorship? Wonder why no one has voted to alter the game classification standards? If the later is true, why?

Aussies have it pretty bad at least in NZ we have an R18 rating for games if they get banned there they still make it here.

fuck.

Not again.

AUSTRALIANS RUI--

Oh wait. They haven't made the game change yet.

Oh well.

Imports for you guys. My heart goes out.

"AUSTRALIANS RUI--

Oh wait. They haven't made the game change yet.

Oh well.

Imports for you guys. My heart goes out."

You cannot vote to change classification rules. :/

Absolutely ridiculous. Excuse my ignorance but do you Australians have the same problem with films or is this solely related to the games industry?

I love Neighbours by the way.

"Absolutely ridiculous. Excuse my ignorance but do you Australians have the same problem with films or is this solely related to the games industry?

I love Neighbours by the way."

"Absolutely ridiculous. Excuse my ignorance but do you Australians have the same problem with films or is this solely related to the games industry?

I love Neighbours by the way."

They need to stop changing these games, even if the changes are minor, to gain Australian reclassification, hopefully that doesn't happen this time around (although I can't say that I'd care much for this on regardless, I won't play it anyway.)

These games don't sell in large enough numbers over there to warrant the trouble, I feel bad for you guys, but I'd rather not have anything changed over there because a small handful of people in your government are behind the times when dealing with games.

Things were never this bad under the previous government, but I'm not sure whether it's actual governmental policy changes that are resulting in the recent rash of bannings, or whether it is just a coincidence.

Rob Schneider derp de derpedy derp!

"Things were never this bad under the previous government, but I'm not sure whether it's actual governmental policy changes that are resulting in the recent rash of bannings, or whether it is just a coincidence."

"Aussies have it pretty bad at least in NZ we have an R18 rating for games if they get banned there they still make it here."

"Sorry for dumb question, why don't Aussies just buy the game from Amazon or another online store? no one is pointed a gun at them to prevent them from playing unclassified games.
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"You cannot vote to change classification rules. :/"

Australia's culture is usually so open to pretty much anything, they let the Chasers war on everything on air for Christ sake
Movies are screened unedited and so are TV shows
Its really strange, but I blame the countries backward state of affairs with Games in general
When I lived there eight months ago the Aussie dollar and the US dollar were more or less 1:1
And still a PS3 cost $999 and games usually $120, I dont think shipping costs THAT much

Anyway I think the best way to combat this is for local retail chains to take action and ensure the government that these games will only reach adult hands

"Sorry for dumb question, why don't Aussies just buy the game from Amazon or another online store? no one is pointed a gun at them to prevent them from playing unclassified games.
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