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 Digg.com Facebook Google Bookmarks N4G Gamerblips del.icio.us Reddit Slashdot.org StumbleUpon :shock: Holy crap, harsh doesn't even come close to describing this. Why have they no 18 ratings for games?. Wow! Considering how much we bitch about the 'Nanny State' here in the UK, they'd never be able to get away with this. That's it, wrap 'em up in cotton wool :roll: So that means Australians will no longer have access to Amazon or Ebay then? Its only a matta of time before it comes to britain we need a real games independent body not some corrupted goverment he or in the EU saying what u or i can play It will never come to britain. We are in many ways moving forward whereas Australia havent moved forward at all and are still rating games like it was 1990, when there were very few 18 rated games and most people playing them were kids.
We'll always have an 18 rating available to us. Well at least they have strict rules on immigrants. I'd still rather live there I reckon. I know it sucks a lot. I'm from Australia and I totally agree that our Government hasn't realised that the average gamer is like above 20. I myself am 16 so I can play 15+ games. About the 18+ games they just take the bad stuff out like in GTA 4 with the prostitute sex scenes.
P.S. We're not exactly a pure free country like America, we're mixed i.e. mostly freedom but with some Government Intervention. Thing is, when you're buying stuff online don't you need a credit card? Isn't there are age restriction on that?
So are they saying it's okay to let your 10 year-old kid do what they like with your credit card and the government will keep them safe? And at the same time, punish the vast majority - because fairly safe guess that more people are over 18 than under it - in the process.
Whatever happened to taking responsibility for your own child? Utterly stupid. That means no Modern Warfare2 for the Aussies,doh! :shock: | 
