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30 Mar 2018, 6:34 pm

Enigmatic_Oddity wrote:
Games are frequently banned in Australia. Among more recent high profile releases have been Left 4 Dead 2, which has since been allowed and Hotline Miami 2. Attempting to import a banned game is illegal and has fines of up to $110,000.

Additionally, games are often censored for Australian benefit. Fallout is probably the most high profile example - all the chems in the game were renamed from real world drugs. This was for the benefit of Australian censors.

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Well I admit I did not know that, but I more meant there is no way video games across the board would be banned. Of course there will always be efforts in some places to ban certain games or certain content even in the U.S.


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31 Mar 2018, 2:30 pm

Arkena wrote:
If they cant ban porn i doubt they will ban games tbh...

I think there's a ban on selling pornographic videogames through public stores.


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30 May 2018, 3:17 pm

I don't think they will be banned because censorship goes against the first amendment.



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30 May 2018, 3:31 pm

Most recently We Happy Few's been banned in Australia for a fictional depiction of drugs.


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01 Jun 2018, 3:01 am

a few games will get banned from some countries or regions. however, games are the largest entertainment industry to have ever arisen. a single game can rake in more money than most movies and KEEP making money. sometimes for years, with very little actual work.

this industry is vast, wealthy and powerful as a whole. i dont like all the political BS happening, but it's not going anywhere.



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01 Jun 2018, 3:31 am

Oh boy, if ever there was a quicker way to start a revolution...


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07 Jun 2018, 1:05 am

It looks like Valve have turned around on a recent decision to ban a lot of games based on their content. IMO this decision is far more powerful in terms of affecting the industry going forward than any government ban of a game. I daresay many game developers don't give a crap if Australia bans their game, but most will care if they can sell their game on Steam or not. I had boycotted Steam but given their recent decision I will start buying games from there again.



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07 Jun 2018, 11:48 am

Enigmatic_Oddity wrote:
It looks like Valve have turned around on a recent decision to ban a lot of games based on their content. IMO this decision is far more powerful in terms of affecting the industry going forward than any government ban of a game. I daresay many game developers don't give a crap if Australia bans their game, but most will care if they can sell their game on Steam or not. I had boycotted Steam but given their recent decision I will start buying games from there again.


I don't know if you heard or not, but they did ban a game called School Shooter after it got negative mainstream attention through trending and then they decided to let open the flood gates for any game to be released on Steam with the lack of quality control. Look up a game called AIDS Simulator.


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08 Jun 2018, 12:43 am

That's what I was referring to. The decision is the smart one to make as effectively Valve's distribution platform is the face of the PC gaming industry. They of course have the right to not sell products based on frankly hypocritical moral decisions and anti competitive behaviour, but I can choose not to buy from them if they go down that route. Thankfully they have decided to not go down that path.