Well if you didn't know, I'm Australian and Mortal Kombat got banned here. Probably don't care because you'll be able to play it, but regardless of what people think or care I decided to give my opinion about it.
Personally I agree with the decision... under the current guideliness of the Classification Board. I mean look at it. There is no way it's going to pass with an MA15+ with all the explicit violence in it. I am pissed off about it being banned admittedly and I want to get the game but I can seem to find a website that will send it to me because of it's banning, and then there's the chance my PSN account could get banned because of playing it in Australia. A lose-lose situation as you can see.
Now when you look at why they denied it classification it's justifiable because of the x-ray attacks and the fatalities. The games fatalities feature dismemberment, disemboweling, decaptitation and other forms of slaughter. Now because it's using realistic graphics, this was enough for it to get denied.
Now I'd like to know what happened to Friendships, Animalities and Babalities? I miss those so much, don't you? I mean come on, in a world with online multiplayer why forgo these? I think it'd be awesome to beat someone and then turn them into a baby if they think they're awesome or do a Friendship finisher when I beat a newcomer who's not very skilled. As for Animalities it was just cool to have an animal form finish the opponent.
Now the SCAG(Standing Council of Attorney Generals) meeting to determine the R18+ in Australia isn't until July thanks to the NSW state election on the 26th of March so I thought of a solution I want Australian readers to do. Send emails, tweets, Facebook messages, whatever to Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment(WBIE) telling them to just release it after the meeting with all the DLC released at that point for free with it. There's a pretty good chance they'll listen if enough people tell them this. Please don't bother abusing the Classifcation Board or the members of SCAG about the descision. It's not they're faults completely and the more you abuse, the more childish you make us look.
Well they may still get it released under the current rating system without changing it if they're lucky but I think we should show them support and wait patiently... maybe it'll be the first R18+ game released if they wait which could be historic because it will be the game that helped Australia grow up.
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If I lived in Australia my reaction would be "FUUUUUUUUU..."
In 08, I got a choice: go and live in australia, or US. Good thing I made the right move. I'd be screwed if I had picked Australia. I hope Australians can get that R18+ soon enough.
The funny thing is that according to some studies in AUS the average age of gamers is like 35 or something, lololol.
i'd love to buy 100 copies and go over there and sell them
A - It's not banned, it's been refused classification. Wish people would stop reporting and talking about this the wrong way, and would take the time to learn the difference.
B - There's plenty of websites and companies based in Asia that you can get RC'd games from, and the authorities can do nothing about it, as owning or buying the software is not against any law.
C - Your PSN account can't get banned for playing a game that is RC'd, thanks to Sony having no real region locking restrictions. This has nothing to do with Sony whatsoever - it is a problem between the publishers and the ratings board.
D - They've already had one appeal refused - a second one won't help. The only way it will get released here is through heavy editing, which with a MK game is completely pointless.
E - Personally, I wouldn't be holding my breath for a change in the ratings system if I was you. I think we're still a few years away from it.