Comments on: Classification Board’s new website reveals long list of banned titles

By: Jarrod

Jarrod — Sat, 23 May 2009 02:16:05 +0000

http://www.gamepolitics.com/2009/05/22/edited-necrovision-clears-aussie-censors#comments

Necrovision has been edited and passed with an MA15+ Rating

By: Anonymous Visitor

Anonymous Visitor — Thu, 21 May 2009 09:04:05 +0000

I just looked at the “publications” list and noticed something hilarious:

“Ninja Death Touch” is RC.

Ninja. Death. Touch. The name just leapt out of the sea of porn.

By: Jarrod

Jarrod — Thu, 21 May 2009 03:19:41 +0000

What i’m saying Glenn is despite the fact Steam is region locked and knows my account is an Australian one i can still add Necrosvision to my cart and possibly even fully purchase; Steam is bending the rules a bit and good on ‘em

By: Glenn

Glenn — Thu, 21 May 2009 00:32:25 +0000

Jarrod: "WTF, Steam is also region locked." Yes, this is the downside of using Steam. It would be best if you download NecroVision via BitTorrent.

By: Jarrod

Jarrod — Thu, 21 May 2009 00:18:45 +0000

Hey guys i had a look at the RC games database and nercovision is still RC i opened my steam client this morning and its being sold for 10% off WTF, Steam is also region locked.

By: Gman

Gman — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:49:38 +0000

Not to forget that if you are really keen on ensuring that everything RC is listed you can restrict the date range of the search. Unless more than 1000 items were refused classification on a a single day, you can check that the list is complete (the UI only lets you pick month and year, but the URL contains day as well).

You do have to wonder whether some of it is test data that has slipped out into the WWW – do a search for “test” or “Boss”…

Is there really a movie called “BOSS TEST 122222222″ from Angola with the consumer advice “Faceplate”?

“Go Boss Go” is the only movie I’ve ever come across with the consumer advice “Fix Me!”, although it arguably seems odd that an RC film would need consumer advice.

By: Gman

Gman — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:32:33 +0000

+1 on the lack of information comment

By: Gman

Gman — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:28:00 +0000

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.oflc.gov.au

By: Gman

Gman — Tue, 19 May 2009 11:58:35 +0000

That info was searchable the same way on the old website. The only thing that’s really changed is the stylesheet and it’s slightly easier to manipulate the URL to search fields that weren’t previously searchable.

As before, it is an excruciating list to go through because it is flooded with items that the authorities have had classified specifically to facilitate a prosecution – EG when they have come across previously unclassified porn material being brought into the country (particularly besitality etc).

By: Glenn

Glenn — Mon, 18 May 2009 00:17:56 +0000

The website looks good, but again there is no link to PDFs telling you why the Classification Board rated the game RC, or there is no text explaining why. So if people want to know why that it is banned, they are still expected to write to the board, asking for an explanation.

The BBFC, Britain’s Classification Agency, does this, and this puts the Classification Board to shame.