…and now they have a proven track record of achieving global bans on several dozen video games by going through VISA and Mastercard.
…and now they have a proven track record of achieving global bans on several dozen video games by going through VISA and Mastercard.
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For anyone doubting the Australia ban was from Collective Shout, [here’s their gloating](https://www.collectiveshout.org/win_target_and_kmart_remove_r18_game_from_stores).
Dude. That news article is from 11 years ago. are the games still banned in those Australian stores listed in the article?
Yes but the real problem is Collective shout is still very active today and they’re WORSE than Sweet baby. To be honest I didn’t know it could get worse than Sweet baby but Collective Shout is out to destroy every straight male in sight with no remorse.
The best thing would be if they succeeded in banning the sale of GTA 6. Only then it seems people will start to act.
Do we have any proof other than their word. I’m not inclined to believe these psychopaths without third party confirmation that it was indeed them.
Radical bastards just want to impose their own morality on other people. Disgusting.
Countless games didn’t make it to Australia back in the day because we didn’t have appropriate ratings for games with modern CGI violence/sex/nude etc.
That doesn’t mean we didn’t have them. It just means they didn’t get classified properly. Once the classification system caught up the games were rated appropriately and we had the games..
…”produced a different version of Grand Theft Auto IV for retail in the Australian/Kiwi market to meet Australian OFLC MA15+ guidelines. This meant there would be no blood pools forming beneath dead bodies, prostitute ‘services’ are shown from an obscuring angle (and no options are available), and injury decals are not shown on the protagonist or on NPCs when they are wounded. Copies of the game acquired from online retailers (Steam, Gamestop etc.) are the international version of the game, even if downloaded within Australia. The international version of GTA IV was eventually submitted for rating in New Zealand by a retailer, and was passed with an 18+ rating, allowing the uncensored version to be sold there.
Media that receive a “Refused Classification” rating are banned from sale; it was particularly easy for games to receive this rating, as there used to be no 18+ classification for games in the country (the R18+ legislation passed in June, 2012.). Games which did receive RC rating would have been edited to meet MA15+ standards to obtain an Australian release.
**Note that the OFLC do not decide ratings policy, but merely enforce it — changes to the classification system, such as providing an 18+ rating for games, must be authorised with a unanimous vote from every state attorney-general. The Attorney- General Michael Atkinson of South Australia is the lone opposing vote regarding an 18+ rating for video games.**
In 2010 Michael Atkinson stepped down from his seat as Attorney General and the R18+ rating was immediately put up for vote. All other Attorney General’s voted yes for the rating except Greg Smith who abstained until a few weeks later. The law has since been passed and was implemented on January 1 2013 with the first game to be rated R Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge for Wii U. Grand Theft Auto V is rated R18+ in the country which prevents minors from purchasing it.”
https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Australian_Classification_Board#:~:text=Grand%20Theft%20Auto%20V%20is,%3A%20London%201969%20%2D%20MA%2015%2B
That’s from 2014, GTA V sold here in Australia just fine
A monkey could get a game banned in the land down under. Didnt balatro get banned cause gambling?
Edit, sorry not banned, [sales just temporarily stopped](https://www.pcgamer.com/games/card-games/poker-themed-deckbuilder-balatro-gets-delisted-from-some-stores-after-its-pegi-rating-absurdly-jumps-from-3-to-18-over-gambling-imagery/)
Old article. Still, this sad excuse for a group should be put on a watch list as punishment for wasting everyone’s time. 🤣
Once a prison colony always a prison colony.
This is good news
What a bunch of fucking crybaby Karens…
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When did you commit sexual violence to get health? You paid for sex and got health, the violence usually comes after when you get your money back.
“collective” shout.
They mean a handful of loud moral busybodies
Is Australia religious or what? And have they always been this way about certain games?
It’s almost a joke. It was just free marketing for gta 5. I can remember that here in the Netherlands, the newspaper, tv and radio were full of it.
Gta 5 banned. In less than 1/2 of the stores and the rest sold them more than if it’s was not a media hype. School everywhere it’s was the only subject people talked about.