They banned Rim World for a little bit as well, although not banned for now as there was some pushback. Be interesting to see if this games gets the same treatment after awhile.
They probably thought it was a game about eating ass
RimjobWorld is a lewd framework for mods for that game, if you didn’t know
Didn’t even know this existed lol, crazy how decentralised the game industry has become now that e3 is gone. There’s no official “time to announce your games” part of the year anymore.
It was bundled in the announcement of all the silent hill games coming. Which was mostly overshadowed by the SH2 remake.
Australia is pretty censorship heavy is it not? They banned Cannibal Corpse until 2006. I mean no disrespect to any Aussie’s reading this.
None taken, I still get embarrassed when I remember they banned GTA V cuz it had weed in it, got brought back quickly with an R18+ rating games couldn’t get up until then coincidentally.
How’s the fight for legalization coming down under?
Silent Hill Fortissimo?
Silent Hill [Pay Your Respects]
The children are safe.
Considering all the warnings Konami has put on the game it’s no surprise Australia probably pissed their pants when they saw that.
Nanny state strikes back.
This is the future the USA would have had if ESRB wasn’t cobbled together in haste
Edit: it wasn’t banned, but Mortal Kombat 10 was and STILL is banned because of violence. This is what happens when you inject “morality” into government policymaking.
Government regulations are better than companies deciding what’s allowed.
Barely. Probably equally bad in some cases.
An educated citizenry that actively participates in government is the best solution, but we know that’s almost impossible for multiple reasons.
I would not say equally bad, citizens are at least theoretically able to influence their government in a democratic system; you have no hope of influencing the ESRB or MPAA or CCA
Equal “badness” in the sense of commercial/oligarchy takeover or the authoritarian nanny state. Extremes where citizen input is token at best. Russia is technically a democracy, but no regular person there has a hope of changing the government or policy with a vote.
Yeah mostly I would agree with that… unfortunately in this case you get exhibit A. Australia.
Good thing it wasn’t actually banned.
I see that. We’ll just have to see
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Good luck banning torrents you crotchety old fuckers.
Don’t forget to use a VPN so you don’t get traced by copyright lawyers! They often seed torrents in the name of gathering IPs to take action against.
