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 Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 6:40 pm Post subject: State Of Play #7 |
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| State Of Play #7 by Brendan |  | | PALGN Feature: It’s been said before. | | [View Article] |
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| Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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a good article, pity you're pretty much preaching to the choir... 
this ban was a little different to the recall of GTA3, as in that instance, it was the distributers fault for the recall, not the OFLC... the game received a non-classification in its initial form, rockstar released it anyway, and they got caught...
pretty good marketing strategy that... the fines (if any) and cost of recall was probably worth the free publicity... especially since the recalled units could simply be shipped across the Tasman...
in general, i can see the merits of the classifying of media, but the current game scheme is dumb, especially in this era when the games are no longer toys...
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Well, how about some more detail on this? For instance, was any parenting group lobbying to have the game banned? On what criteria do these people work - do they play the game themselves or do they entertain comments from various groups? Plus, what does the local Take 2 distributor have to say about it?
I think there is a more important problem here - how can a game be awarded a certificate and then be banned? It's unusual and prompts me to think there's more invovled here than a simple revision of the content.
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| Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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As far as I can ascertain, all it took was a Western Australian minister - Michelle Roberts - to question the content of the game. The attorney general (Phillip Ruddock) made the revision of the game happen, and it was banned. This was no doubt incited by the tabloid controversy surrounding the game in Britain.
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| Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 11:36 pm Post subject: |
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yeah i don't understand Michelle Roberts' name being attached to it... the first i heard of the investigation into the game, some religious family group in SA were named as the instigators... at least thats how it was reported here...
and now Michelle's getting the credit...
in general though, 3 people (minimum) view a piece of media in order to rate it, the recommendations go to a board who pretty much pass any recommendations made unless they vary wildly in which case the board reviews the subject
then it goes out... and i think for a review to take place, a petition needs to be signed by x amount of people, which is fairly easy when it's usually churches who do the protestations
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