Australian that already owns the game...

[Sean]

So I already own this game, but apparently the idiots at our country's game classification board have decided to ban it. Will I need to use a VPN to play it? Will it simply stop working? Anyone know what the deal is here?

[Jaunitta 🌸]

I have it no problems?
Bought on Steam its in my library?
Maybe Steam is messed up again.
Every Tuesday they do a maintinence .Can't you buy it?
Don't understand why you're having a problem.
Contact Steam Support.

[Sean]

It's not a tech issue, just the other day it was announced that my country is going to ban this game. I'm wondering what the actual ramifications will be lol

[Romlyn]

I think it's the same case as dayz a few weeks ago. I think a physical release is banned but digital is ok?

But if you already have it you should be fine in any case.

[Jaunitta 🌸]

I live in Australia, are you saying they are going to ban it now lol
Seems it is about classification/ that is needed to rate it, apparantly because there is sex scenes in the Womans Lot.
I just bought the DLC anyway so have the Womans Lot
https://press-start.com.au/news/2019/08/20/two-more-games-have-been-banned-in-australia/

Witcher 3 Wild Hunt and the 2 DLC have sex scenes lol

[Romlyn]

Originally posted by Jaunitta 🌸:

I live in Australia, are you saying they are going to ban it now lol
Seems it is about classification/ that is needed to rate it, apparantly because there is sex scenes in the Womans Lot.
I just bought the DLC anyway so have the Womans Lot
https://press-start.com.au/news/2019/08/20/two-more-games-have-been-banned-in-australia/

Witcher 3 Wild Hunt and the 2 DLC have sex scenes lol

I think the sex scene wasn't the thing it was heavily implied rape (also being the reason Hotline miami 2 was banned)

[Uryurvkos]

"Kingdom Come Deliverance’s ban relates to its ‘A Woman’s Lot’ DLC which apparently has a mission about two hours into the game where sexual assault is heavily implied."

https://press-start.com.au/news/2019/08/20/two-more-games-have-been-banned-in-australia/

https://www.kotaku.com.au/2019/08/we-happy-few-has-been-banned-again/

Apparently "We Happy Few " is to be banned as well.

Odd to say the least.

[Spaghet]

Hotline Miami, We Happy Few, DayZ and that new rockstar game or RD2 expansion has been banned.

Most they can do for now is remove the store page to stop future sales. But i feel like in the T&Cs for Steam, Xbox and PS it says something in regards to them reserving the right to remove it from your games list. Owning a physical copy would net you a large fine as well if caught.

These bans are in regards to physical releases as well, but at the same time i feel like that OFLC has changed their guidelines to what it used to be back in the day as some of these titles had no issues previously. Seeing as if you read up their guidelines most of the reasons that get the RC rating are infact things that are featured in most Rockstar games and even Mario (except ♥♥♥♥ like rape and all other scummy ♥♥♥♥)

[Evil Overlord]

If I'm not mistaken, back when zero punctuation was based in Australia he mentioned he could obtain banned games through steam keys and such so I don't think your game will stop working, your ability to buy it and dlc will though.

[Spaghet]

Originally posted by Evil Overlord:

If I'm not mistaken, back when zero punctuation was based in Australia he mentioned he could obtain banned games through steam keys and such so I don't think your game will stop working, your ability to buy it and dlc will though.

Yeah pretty much. Thats if the devs offer keys through their website pre classification.

[Master Zone]

Originally posted by Bööfheäd:

Originally posted by Evil Overlord:

If I'm not mistaken, back when zero punctuation was based in Australia he mentioned he could obtain banned games through steam keys and such so I don't think your game will stop working, your ability to buy it and dlc will though.

Yeah pretty much. Thats if the devs offer keys through their website pre classification.

Basically this. Risen 1 is banned in Australia, but I got it through a Steam key and can still play it.

[Lutty]

Australia can suck my left nut, ♥♥♥♥ off!!.

[Lutty]

Its so so stupid Australia has an R-Rating on the game It basically states whats going on and whats involved, that should be right I personally don't see what the problem is? Don't buy it if your underage its as simple as that, gees some Australians are thick in the head, grow up and harden the ♥♥♥♥ up ffs gees' seriously.

[Uryurvkos]

Originally posted by Lutty:

Its so so stupid Australia has an R-Rating on the game It basically states whats going on and whats involved, that should be right I personally don't see what the problem is? Don't buy it if your underage its as simple as that, gees some Australians are thick in the head, grow up and harden the ♥♥♥♥ up ffs gees' seriously.

Exactly, no one is forcing anyone who finds the game offensive to buy it. This is simply about trying to control the thoughts and actions of other people while simultaneously catering to those with no coping skills.

I guess it's somewhat normal human behavior, certainly for governments, to seek some form of control over how people perceive certain things and how they should react to them, I can think of certain 'offensive words' as an example; its not enough that a person finds a word offensive and they themselves don't want to say it, those offended generally want everyone else to be offended as well and share in their own reaction.

[ShadowAngel]

Originally posted by Uryurvkos:

I guess it's somewhat normal human behavior, certainly for governments, to seek some form of control over how people perceive certain things and how they should react to them,

Seems to me what Australia does now is what Germany started in the 80's, when our government (and everyobdy involved, since the applications for bans came from other institutions) started a major crusade against everything in regards to violence, with hundreds of movies and video games getting banned and censored to shreds.

It didn't work back then (because even in the early 90's, without any proper Internet, basically everybody who had a PC had the "nasty" baned games like Wolfenstein or Doom installed on it) and of course it can't work nowadays.
The Australian government should know that:
a) banning games only has a major advertising effect. It was the same here back in the day. A game gets banned and everybody under 18 year wants to play it, just because it's banned
b) Thanks to the internet, there's no logic behind banning anything because even if they use a geo lock or whatever, you can just pirate it.
So the only thing this accomplishes, is that a lot of people turn into pirates and companies (and thus the government, from taxes) makes a lot less money.

I never understood the reasoning behind it. Banning "violent" video games or movies won't fix the problems you have. It won't make violence disappear and it won't fix all the violence problems Australia has.
And banning it because of one implied case of rape is just beyond absurd. I thought only americans were this prude and backwards.

[Stoibs]

Already owning a game has no bearing on it being banned later on, likewise as others have mentioned getting a key from another reseller shouldn't be an issue.

I have uncensored Saints Row, South Park, Hotline Miami 2, L4D2 (back when it was still cut), etc. etc. all in my library.