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WoW not for sale in Australia? (Official Response)

2009/02/06 시간 12:36에 Malgayne에 의해 작성됨

hereWoWinsiderMassivelyHello everyone:

We wanted to get the word out to you on the latest information that has been circulating in regard to the legal status of sales of World of Warcraft in Australia. There has been a lot of wrong information circulated and we wanted to make sure you had the most accurate information to either update your communities with or amend information that you may have shared with your communities.

Our official stance is as follows:

Blizzard Entertainment and its affiliates work very closely with the Interactive Entertainment Association of Australia to ensure that we are in full compliance with Australian law as it relates to the distribution and operation of our games, including World of Warcraft. We’d like to reassure all of our players that World of Warcraft is currently, and has always been, distributed and operated legally in Australia.

Best Regards,
Nethaera

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khoros의 댓글(the man responsible for most of the issues we're suffering is the South Australian Governor General, Michael Atkinson; any changes to policy must be agreed by all states and he constantly stands in the way with his antiquated, illogical, "Think of the children!" mentality).Fingulfin의 댓글Thats why he said, quote:
antiquated, illogical, "Think of the children!" mentalityArideni의 댓글When exactly was this proven and accepted globally?sutasafaia의 댓글Yes, the first does indeed have restrictions. Just as an example, if you run into a movie theater and shout "FIRE!" your going to get arrested. Same with going onto a plane and shouting "BOMB!". Freedom of speech is limited to your ability to cause direct or indirect physical or mental harm to another person.Fingulfin의 댓글Accepted? Hasn't ever been accepted, and as long as there is an overprotective mother in existence it will NEVER be accepted. Proven? You can't really be 100% sure of anything, however studies have shown that children who grow up playing violent video games are no more likely to go on a shooting spree than children who grow up on the farm.

However, saying that video games DO cause violence in adolescents is even MORE unproven than saying that they DON'T. People just assume that because video games contain violence that kids who play them will grow up to be blood thirsty killers... Assumptions are dangerous things.sutasafaia의 댓글Accepted? Hasn't ever been accepted, and as long as there is an overprotective mother in existence it will NEVER be accepted. Proven? You can't really be 100% sure of anything, however studies have shown that children who grow up playing violent video games are no more likely to go on a shooting spree than children who grow up on the farm.

However, saying that video games DO cause violence in adolescents is even MORE unproven than saying that they DON'T. People just assume that because video games contain violence that kids who play them will grow up to be blood thirsty killers... Assumptions are dangerous things.Fyuu의 댓글When exactly was this proven and accepted globally?Shigy의 댓글As a resident Aussie, maybe I can fill the blanks in here a bit for those not familiar with the situation.

Our classification body, the OFLC (Office of Film & Literature Classification) has been in the news now worldwide for it's somewhat unique standards for the assessment of interactive media. Games were only rated dating from the mid 90s when films and other media obviously were much earlier. The problem lies in that our system is severely outdated and hasn't really been modified in standard since it's inception, back in the age when gaming was more of a niche kid's hobby. Several studies here in Oz have now revealed the average age of the gamer to be well over 30 so there's been a public outcry for a change to the system, seeing as we're still stuck without an R classification for gorier or more risque titles. You probably heard that games like Silent Hill 5, F.E.A.R. 2, Dark Sector and of course Fallout 3 probably being the most infamous of the time (forcing content change of the game worldwide, just because of our system) among others have had a real hard time getting a clean release here. Most of them eventually made or are making it here but the red tape involved in modding/reapplying/reclassifying just bloats the whole process out, frustrating the publishers (costing them money) and the potential players (making them wait longer for class-A games).

Now, the recent ruling as I understand it is that the OFLC now wants online interactions rated under the classification code as opposed to just offline, so that clause about "Gaming experience may change online" doesn't fly anymore apparently according to beaurocracy. How they expect a non-linear, unpredictable series of interactions to be gauged and classified is utterly beyond me and obvious showing of why we need a serious change of government in this country (the man responsible for most of the issues we're suffering is the South Australian Governor General, Michael Atkinson; any changes to policy must be agreed by all states and he constantly stands in the way with his antiquated, illogical, "Think of the children!" mentality).

So of course, games that are online-only are effectively un-rated and theoretically "banned" under our classification system. Personally, I think it's a whole much-ado about nothing because I seriously don't expect WoW to start being pulled off shelves over here. At the end of the day, they'll likely have to abbreviate the rough nuances of games like WoW much like I understand the ESRB (the American equiv. you guys are more familiar with); like alchohol use, blood, mild "themes" (whatever that's supposed to mean), etc etc etc.

Hopefully that clears things up. Wall of text crits for over 9000!Malgayne의 댓글When exactly was this proven and accepted globally?SBMrCleanhereTo the argument that violent video games encourage violent behavior, I merely need to point out that violent crime has been on a drastic decline in recent years. Small scale cause-and-effect studies don't do much for your cause when correlational evidence is stacked so high against you. Furthermore, playing violent video games, it's been shown, does encourage violent behavior—but as “Playing Columbine” insists, so do watching violent movies and reading violent books. Malcolm Gladwell, in his book Blink, even shows that reading polite words causes polite behavior. No more needs to be said about that topic.tessae의 댓글I could care less what the rest of the world thinks ... as an American, I am proud that I have a right to be both violent and vulgar, provided I not strike the first real physical blow against others.

I'm glad to hear that, since WoW is an online game, they can sidestep this crap in Oz.

I was afraid for a second there we would end up with different games in different servers ... fuzzy-happy Nerf-Land on the Oceania realms ... heh. Wouldn't like to have to deal with the resulting stampede of Australians to NA servers ...221027의 댓글This post was from a user who has deleted their account.152066의 댓글This post was from a user who has deleted their account.sexyresults의 댓글Our classification board has been long out of touch.

Doing anything like this only hurts local retailers, and promotes online purchases.lornetc의 댓글Of course, their "Great Internet Wall of Australia" would block connections to US WoW servers anyways, so the point would be moot. *Is glad he lives in Canada* <3

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