Mortal Kombat reboot refused classification in Australia

[John Marston]

Question why does the minority rule the majority? I would love to know why should the average age of a gamer being 20-30 be ruled by dumb parents. Also i would love to know why couldn't the government do a ad campaign explaining to all the stupid parents about a R+ system like they do with smoking and drinking and washing hands ffs.....

One can dream....
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[evil_kenshin]

nothing to do with the parents, in fact most parents were in support of the R18+ for games the only groups against it were (according to the report based on submissions to that minister for home affairs)

- the australian christian lobby
- a few womens groups
- some anti-gun rights group
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[arbok]

do they really think they can stop gamers???

i dont even buy games in australia anymore - its all on steam or online shops for me.

seriously these guys are living in the past...
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[admeister]

This just got coverage on TV, ABC 24. They interviewed one of the guys from Kotaku about it, he reckons that it's only a matter of time until an R rating is implemented. He had a little trouble convincing the reporter that the game really needs to be available here, when so many games don't have extreme gore/violence.
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[LeonJ]

The thing that annoys me is there is no consistency with these types of rulings. It's just a bunch of random people deciding a game is too violent due to one particular thing.

Technically almost all the violent games out there should be banned.

So either ban them all or don't ban any.

The rating for R seems to have disappeared of late. What ever happened to all the push to get this through?
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[Fly]

1) Sales assistants need to be equipped with tasers so that upon purchase of a product from a "stupid parent" they can whip it out and tase them with a "bad parent, bad, no circumventing of the classification!"

2)Upon tasing, burly men in suits should arrive from the backroom to chain the kids in the back in sweat shop conditions to stick all their copious amounts of stickers on the games as punishment for getting their parent tased.

3) Whilst convulsing on the floor, the parent shall have their wallet taken, name and address recorded so they may be blacklisted from all franchisees of the chain.

4) There shall be much rejoining as parents quit breaking the law and actually instill some values in their child outside of selfish, spoiled byproduct of a lack of rubber in the house. Use a shoe, it's the same thing, the world will thank you for it.

Joking aside, was always going to happen, this generation is simply highlighting the "severity" of the problems with an archaic classification system since common sense would dictate that as graphical representation pushes towards the limits of realism & immersion than the greater the amount will be of items which will be refused classification or misclassified on a system created 40 years ago (or 17 for video games given 1994).

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[Cramsy]

Oh no! Now I have to purchase it at half the price and probably a week earlier from over seas!

Still though. I didn't work at GAME and get everybody to sign that petition for nothing, I hope!

[dloiscute]

I swear God of War 3 was much more violent than this and it presents itself in a serious manner. MK always seems to have a tongue in cheek tone behind it's violence.
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