James wrote:Psychotic wrote:Hm, might take a look.
Important and ignorant question, New Zealand is unaffected by Australia's laws right?
We are, yes. I feel sorry for Australia because of it - I sent an e-mail to the MP over there explaining why he was a douche (in nice terms why I hated his opinion) and I got back some random e-mail from them asking for my address. This was around the start of the year, never seen anything from them since.
Anyways, that's irrelevant. We do have an R18 rating for video games, thank the gods. It's just up to the publishers to get the uncensored version (the "censored" ones they send to the likes of Australia). The only real problem I heard was when NZ got the same shipment that Australia did for Grand Theft Auto IV which annoyed many NZ gamers.
Some guy even bought the US version of the game and paid the hefty fee to get it classified (it's like $1,000 NZD "minimum" plus a certain amount per hour of gameplay apparently) and it was rated R18, not banned. So stores could just buy it from a US supplier and stock it (I don't know if they did or not).
Blood is thicker than water and sweeter than candy.