R18+ Video Game Classifications in Australia.
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Dear OFLC & the Australian Government.
As Australian gamers, we are very disappointed in the current status of the Classification Board for video games in Australia.
As of now, there is no R18+ & X18+ Video Games Rating. This prevents many games from entering Australia & some games to be censored with large consequences. Just recently the game titled Grand Theft Auto IV, developed by Rockstar North Games, has been censored in Australia to fit the M15+ Classification as there is no R18+ to stick to... leaving us Australians with a gimped version of the game compared to every other nation in the world.
This provides no freedom of choice for us adults. Why are adults over the age of 18 able to watch R18+ rated movies, and yet these adults do not have the same say for games?
We believe children under the age of 18 should be guided by their parents (or) guardians & prevented from buying this game without their permission. It is up to the parents & guardians of the said child to handle this situation. Adults should have every right to buy an uncensored game if they wish to do so.
Every other country is going forth in this path. Why is Australia sitting back & doing nothing?
So we ask, please consider the R18+ & X18+ Classifications & implement them into the system, we as Adult Australians deserve the rights of choice into what we play. Children should not have to restrict us from what we have the consent in buying.
Hopefully the Australian Government will come to its senses & realize the current ratings system is broken.
Please we urge you; it is the correct decision to take. As many of us adult Australians gamers would agree.
As Australian gamers, we are very disappointed in the current status of the Classification Board for video games in Australia.
As of now, there is no R18+ & X18+ Video Games Rating. This prevents many games from entering Australia & some games to be censored with large consequences. Just recently the game titled Grand Theft Auto IV, developed by Rockstar North Games, has been censored in Australia to fit the M15+ Classification as there is no R18+ to stick to... leaving us Australians with a gimped version of the game compared to every other nation in the world.
This provides no freedom of choice for us adults. Why are adults over the age of 18 able to watch R18+ rated movies, and yet these adults do not have the same say for games?
We believe children under the age of 18 should be guided by their parents (or) guardians & prevented from buying this game without their permission. It is up to the parents & guardians of the said child to handle this situation. Adults should have every right to buy an uncensored game if they wish to do so.
Every other country is going forth in this path. Why is Australia sitting back & doing nothing?
So we ask, please consider the R18+ & X18+ Classifications & implement them into the system, we as Adult Australians deserve the rights of choice into what we play. Children should not have to restrict us from what we have the consent in buying.
Hopefully the Australian Government will come to its senses & realize the current ratings system is broken.
Please we urge you; it is the correct decision to take. As many of us adult Australians gamers would agree.
927 Signatures
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jake
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- do it, why are R rated games diffenet from movies
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tony pappas
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- Get with the times Australia
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Johnny Adamidis
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Jordan
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- This is disgraceful! Rockstar is getting less money for all this and its all your fault OFLC!
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strath
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- true that.
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Jesse Shane WAldock
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- New Zealand has one, why not us
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Daniel Kang
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Mark Harris
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Alicia Buncle
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Logan Niblock
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- By not allowing R18+ games to be legally available you only endorse pirating and illegal methods of obtaining them
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mark johnson
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- be fair to our kids australia needs it
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Simon McLean
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Tim Owens
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- this needs to be considered, even debated, at least for the sake of our australian retailers that are missing out due to the increasing number of online orders and illegal downloads.
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Brad Lowth
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Dave Alman
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Mystery B.D.
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Ben
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- bring us out of the stone age
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James Cammeron
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- This is forcing me to either pirate or buy from overseas. This banning is unnacceptable
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Fahd Mercy
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- movies do it why can't games
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Erin Dvornicich
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Allan Freeburn
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David Goynich
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- I'm over being controlled and told what to think! let me take responsibility for my own life and my outcomes!
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Michael Anderson
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- its time for Michael Atkinson to get out of office and let this country progress
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Alison Flood
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Reid Hutcheson
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Adam Mills
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Hartleigh Burton
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- GO TEAM MONGOOSE!
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Jonathan Daniels
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Peter Tilbrook
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- I am nearly 40 for christs sake!
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Stephen King
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Crispin Rovere
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Dominik Oryl
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Matt Petruchenia
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Nick Vranic
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- Statics show the average gamer to be in thier mid twenties. how can they have no right in picking what they want to play. I thought we lived in a free country but i guess thats all an illusion.
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Aaron Todd
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Samuel David Crotty
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- Please change the system so that the Australian people can keep their money in the Australian economy. Not that of other countries with R18+ ratings.
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Chris Pereira
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D Lawrence
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- OFLC has no right to tell me what is bad for me - this is Australia not Stalinist Russia!!
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Gerard
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- In reference to Fallout 3
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Tim Sudholz
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- Let adults make adult choices. Let parents decide for their kids and not the rest of us.
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Matt Hewson
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- In this day and age, The Australian raitings system is antiquated and draconian. It still follows the "Games are for Kids" stereotype which any "educated" Adult knows is garbage.
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Christopher McCure
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- OLFC, You can control the ban, but you cannot control my ability to get around it! Assimilate or perish.
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Ben Kelly
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- Im an adult, I deserve the right to play games for adult.
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Trevor Holland
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Falameezar
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Mick Forrester
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- I fully support the introduction of an R18+ classification for video games
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Kim Heath
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christian o'shea
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Michael
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- R18+ htfu
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Michael Rose
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