Government finally asking if gamers want an R rating

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

You're surprised- this it the very lobby that were die-hard supporters of mandatory internet filtering, even though the first casualty of it in terms of political websites were anti-abortion pages. Seriously, if you could bottle that kind of irony, you'd have to ban it as the worlds worst chemical weapon- ever!

Sadly not in the slightest. Its just a shame they don't think about the situation more thoroughly instead of over-reacting.

[Gutsman Heavy]

R18+ passed. Woo.

I do expect it to just be MA cut in half though.

[bowspearer]

Sadly not in the slightest. Its just a shame they don't think about the situation more thoroughly instead of over-reacting.

It is when you consider what a joke the current M+15/MA rating and enforcement has been in terms of child welfare.

R18+ passed. Woo.

I do expect it to just be MA cut in half though.

The MA/M+15 ratings need a massive overhaul. My concern with them now is that while games publishers were forced to shoehorn games innappropriate for kids into the ratings previously; how many will now still opt for shoehorning when they see their sales dropping because of all the ignorant/deadbeat parents who are no longer able to buy the likes of GTA for their 10 year old children.

[1AZRAEL1]

Watch the R18+ battle crumble now that some moron went on a killing spree and named Modern Warfare 2 as his training program.

This will be a setback with the kneejerk reaction that I know is coming.

[Accel]

it has already started. the minister for R18 tried to calm the christian groups down by saying the Norway guy was just an insane bastard.


to be fair he was an insane Christian fundamentalist too ;P maybe we should ban crazy Christian fundamentalists instead of R18 :3

[1AZRAEL1]

to be fair he was an insane Christian fundamentalist too ;P maybe we should ban crazy Christian fundamentalists instead of R18 :3

I like this idea better

[Hursticon]

I like this idea better

I agree, but I'm going to leave it there as I don't want to offend anyone.

[1AZRAEL1]

NSW backs R18+ video game rating

[Hursticon]

NSW backs R18+ video game rating

It's good, but I'm not holding my breath yet - Chances are they'll just re-brand MA15+ as R18+ and we'll have only moved backwards.

[loophole]

yeah i heard on the radio today that they were going to add the R18+ but still ban games that they deem too violent, so what the bloody point then