Well they didn't have much to say but here is the whole article. Link is at the bottom.
The Acting Director of the Classification Board, Mr Donald McDonald announced today that Saints Row IV was the first computer game in Australia to be Refused Classification under the Guidelines for the Classification of Computer Games that commenced on 1 January 2013.
The Classification Board classified the game RC (Refused Classification) in accordance with item 1(a) of the National Classification Code and in accordance with the computer games guidelines.
Mr McDonald said the Classification Board had now been applying the new computer games guidelines for almost six months and this was the first game to be refused classification.
They have already come out and said they are going to be making some changes to the game to get a release in Australia. (These changes won't effect the game in other countries)
His name is Donald McDonald, of course he's going to have a grudge against the world...
But seriously, I don't know why they keep trying to keep things like this out, its not like people don't have access to content much worse than this on the internet anyway.
But does anyone know what the reasons are for denying it classification? I would have thought the new R rating covered pretty much anything people could come up with...
And with unemployment becomming a rising issue over there - as I heard in the news - we might see more people ditching that place, across the ditch and back or coming into NZ. Or else, where would they go?
"In the Board’s opinion, Saints Row IV, includes interactive, visual depictions of implied sexual violence which are not justified by context."
Nice to see that they can make a judgement of what's suitable for an entire nation of adults. Pretty sure that violates freedom on the most basic level. Just one more step towards 1984.
I had one of my clan members in Aussie hit me up in Teamspeak if I could gift him a copy of Saints Row 4.
Which is all good. But Luckily it's cheaper at Greenman Gaming than it is on Steam and he can get it from there or other sites like Pistols store when it comes out. I know alot of Aussies use G2Play to get around the bullshit too.
No shit until they get someone down to earth in parliament most of the good games will rejected. And why was God Of War let in that has tits everywere!
Yeah this is a real shame. Although it won't really affect many pc players as we will just be able to download a patch most likely, the sentimant still sucks. You would think that the implimentation of an 18+ rating would mean this wouldn't happen...
Wow. They don't like that morphine is used. :O that's just rediculous. Whats the point of the R rating if it doesn't even allow basic things like that?
I assume they're banning movies too, now? How about books? How about people pretending to do things? Ban imagination, it might imagine drugs being taken improperly.
