Saints Row 4 denied sale again by Australian Classification Board
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I don't know, Checkov's gun? "We are going to make this an adult rated game to strike fear into the hearts of men... and then not release it in our country because we find it offensive."
The reason for the classification refusal (it's NOT banned: you just can't buy, sell, or own it) is very simple:
In the view of the ACB, computer games are played by children, not adults.
Adults (like them) DON'T play computer games, therefore NO adults play computer games.
The R18+ rating is an aberration that was introduced by politicians to fool potential voters. After all, we've already proven that only children play computer games.
Therefore computer games that depict drug use (even if it's a fictional "alien narcotic") with rewards or satirical "sexual" content are entirely inappropriate and will be refused classification.
What? TV shows like Breaking Bad do these things? Oh, they're serious drama aimed at adults, not computer games that, as we've already established, are only for children.
They're quite all right.
See? Simple!
And remember the ACB motto: Informing (you of) your choices.
By the way, I am Australian.
It's my belief that the game companies shouldn't suck up to the ACB.
If those morons decide to ban a game, then it simply won't be available in Australia.
After that happens a few times, the ACB will get their arses kicked and the petty bureaucrats might actually wake up to the real world.
Nah, never happen
In the view of the ACB, computer games are played by children, not adults.
Adults (like them) DON'T play computer games, therefore NO adults play computer games.
The R18+ rating is an aberration that was introduced by politicians to fool potential voters. After all, we've already proven that only children play computer games.
Therefore computer games that depict drug use (even if it's a fictional "alien narcotic") with rewards or satirical "sexual" content are entirely inappropriate and will be refused classification.
What? TV shows like Breaking Bad do these things? Oh, they're serious drama aimed at adults, not computer games that, as we've already established, are only for children.
They're quite all right.
See? Simple!
And remember the ACB motto: Informing (you of) your choices.
By the way, I am Australian.
It's my belief that the game companies shouldn't suck up to the ACB.
If those morons decide to ban a game, then it simply won't be available in Australia.
After that happens a few times, the ACB will get their arses kicked and the petty bureaucrats might actually wake up to the real world.
Nah, never happen
It's all down to Politics and people. Yes, Politics with a capital P, that's the stuff you see in government (in any sort of question period debate, you know the sort). It has nothing to do with the people, and everything to do with yourself and prestige. It's all about "Protecting the Children From This Filth and Degeneration". It lets you seem like an upstanding moral person, even when, yes, there's no children that play the games because of the ratings established. In theory, in practice they rely on parents and parents are people and many people are, well, dumb.
The same thing happens with all media. It took them a long time to get over the same thing for movies after all. TV is much the same. Newspaper comics are still very much stuck in the 1950s because of all of this stuff. Someone takes a Moral Crusade of Right to win voters/support by slamming on a good target. The trick is the target has to a: not be something the bulk of people know much about, hence video games, and b: lack a coherent defense with money to throw behind it. Video games apply to both.. there's some groups trying to promote them but the industry as a world-wide whole does not support them and if anything tends to cave in too much.
On the other hand, wait maybe 10-15 years. THEN we'll see some fun, when suddenly a doesn't apply anymore.
The same thing happens with all media. It took them a long time to get over the same thing for movies after all. TV is much the same. Newspaper comics are still very much stuck in the 1950s because of all of this stuff. Someone takes a Moral Crusade of Right to win voters/support by slamming on a good target. The trick is the target has to a: not be something the bulk of people know much about, hence video games, and b: lack a coherent defense with money to throw behind it. Video games apply to both.. there's some groups trying to promote them but the industry as a world-wide whole does not support them and if anything tends to cave in too much.
On the other hand, wait maybe 10-15 years. THEN we'll see some fun, when suddenly a doesn't apply anymore.
Germany is actually getting the whole hog for once surprisingly