Australian Gamers Should be Bloody Furious

[reverendball]

get bloody angry about it

then bloody download a bloody pirated/hacked copy of the bloody game

then bloody play it and bloody enjoy it

then bloody ??????

then bloody PROFIT!



not kidding, we made a political party called Gamers 4 Croydon
who ran for Michael Atkinson's seat in parliament
just to get the fucker ousted from his job, which he was using to deny putting through the R18 rating on games that AUS so badly needs
and pretty much sodomising the australian gaming community at large all by his lonesome

while we didnt win his seat, we took a chunk of votes off the outdated dinosaur
got rid of the asshole, and now its time for change

the law at the moment is encouraging gamers to get pirated/hacked versions of the game
denying the game designers of the money that we are willing to pay
*headdesk*

/rant

[Zorgen]

Can't you just order it online and have it shipped to you from somewhere else?...

[dezzagod]

Can't you just order it online and have it shipped to you from somewhere else?...

yes...i can but it is so not the point

[Zellery]

i suggest we stage a protest and go ape shit like egypt and lybia

Make sure you equip your bread hat.

OT: That sucks majorly.

[Lazoric]

Turns out they're also planning to block imports of the game too

[RyanS]

Fuck the government, first games cost like, double what they cost in america, THEN they have the nerve to tell us we cant play certain games? GTFO, im moving to America ASAP

[Bankrupted]

you know what, that video was hilarious...muuust link it to my aussie friends naow!

[Xpace]

I recall reading about Australias censorship against video games with GTA, and how that entire thing was a mess, but I had no idea that it was this... awkward. I'm not surprised though, coming from a country that endorses Paul Watson and Sea Shepherd. Although props for Chasers War.

[Lily Crowley]

Its insanely ridiculous that someone is regulating what you as an adult (18+) can or cannot do.

If its under the cover of "BUT KIDS CAN GET THEIR HANDS ON IT AND PLAY!" then I say "FUCKING PARENTS WATCH YOUR KIDS RIGHT!"

It is truly sad. Still, lol @ Germany and their green blood tho.

[Collegeguy]

Very shameful seeing laws get passed like that in a developed democracy. They should be removing Hannah Montana from poll dancing on television or Secret Life of an American teenager, but instead they go for video games. Not sure if it's embarrassing or shameful.

[Grable]

Its insanely ridiculous that someone is regulating what you as an adult (18+) can or cannot do.

Lol and I thought my country was bad

Are you guys even allowed to watch pornos there?

This actually comes as quite a surprise to me, I always thought Australia was a cool country, you know, with cool people and cool government and cool animals and surfboards and steve irwin and shit