10mo ago

PlayStation suddenly pulls Hotline Miami 2 from Aussie PS5 owners after realising country's ratings board denied game's release a decade ago

www.eurogamer.net

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This pretty much shows, that in all that time: noone cared
- Noone always cares. He's a great guy.
  
  He's a great guy
  He's the eighth guy, he is!
- According to the article, it was only released on PS5 last October. So, took about an year.
Australia continues to treat its residents as criminals who cannot be trusted with naughty things.
- We've had an R18+ rating for video games since 2013, so not sure why Hotline Miami 2 wouldn't have been able to receive classification.
  Funnily enough, I own the game on Steam, so at some point Valve also made the same mistake. But at least they won't pull the game from my library.
  
  The root problem is that not-being-classified counts as a ban, rather than defaulting to adults-only.
- Australian government bans entertainment
  The government: Why is everyone pirating?
  
  Sharing is made a criminal offence
- Stupid nanny states.
- They are a prison colony after all
For the uninitiated, the game was banned, not because of the gratuitous violence, extreme drug use, and themes involving fugue states, war crimes and cold war conspiracy,
But because of a scene depicting rape.
Except, the "depiction" was simply a character, from a pixelated top-down view, climbing onto the other character. No nudity, no thrusting - then...
The director yells "CUT!"
Turns out, it was a movie being filmed. So even within the context of the game, it wasn't rape, it was an abstraction of an abstraction, WITHIN an abstraction.
Ratings board are morons.
As an Aussie, I was luck to have a friend gift this to me on Steam.
i’ve been clutching my pearls for the past 10 years but it’s nice to know i can rest easy tonight
The fact that's even possible is a crime.
Tonight, Australia sleeps for the first time in ten years.
What a downer ending
And only pulled after some pearl clutching nanny noticed and decided to point out the original ruling.
Not the first time someone had a dummy spit over a game that is less problematic than the average M rated movie...
Finally I will not need my ambien

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