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Jeremy
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 Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:01 pm Post subject: Have your say on the R18+ classification |
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| Have your say on the R18+ classification by Jeremy |  | | PALGN News: Before Friday's meeting. | | [View Article] |
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Additives
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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Friday? tomorrow is friday! i mean..the day after...or...i dont know
but its soon, better get typeign...
posted this on the blog
"Im 17, so an R rating does inconvienience me a litte, but in the long run, not much, i have enough frineds over 18 to get me a game if i want it, and i live out of home, so parental controll isnt an issue (rightly so, I moved out, i pay my own rent, bills and food)
However, the story is not the same for a 12yrold who manages to get his hands on a game like Bioshock. If it had an R rating, they wouldnt be able to get it, while mature gamers who can deal with the nature of such a game arent denied one of the better games of the year. Admittedly bioshock got a MA, but with an R system it would have almost definantly filtered into that category.
MA leads parents to think along the lines of "well, 13 is ALMOST 15, it should be fine" where as not many fit parents would buy an R rated movie for their 13yr old child.
And as aother point, censorship is wrong. If i wanted people to take away my choices i'd go live in a dictatorship (not that we are really all that far off one, when one person can over-ride 6 in amtters of policy...isn't democracy ment to be the rule of the majority?)"
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well its really a moot point since no matter how many gamers/whoever turn up, aslong as the south Australian attorney general refuses, nothings going to change (Since it requires a 100% agreement among the Attorney generals)
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Well it wont be two bad if an R rating is introduced. remember most games still wont be R rated unless they are outragously violent or are porn games. i wouldnt worry if i were you guys. the only games that will get an R ratings are ones already banned or censored heavily now
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:28 pm Post subject: |
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| evil_kenshin wrote: | | well its really a moot point since no matter how many gamers/whoever turn up, aslong as the south Australian attorney general refuses, nothings going to change (Since it requires a 100% agreement among the Attorney generals) |
Not really. I'm pretty sure the law is that for a nation-wide R18+ rating, every state needs to be on board, OR, every state except one, and that one state wont get the R18+
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:35 pm Post subject: |
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Actually it needs to me unanimous. Was implimented to stop the states getting too pissed off when camberra informed them that individual ratings boards are actually illegal. Basically, really shitty dammage controll then that we are stuck with now. The only places that can have individual ratings are the teritories, as shown by x18+
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