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Thursday 8 May 2014

Australian Games market

Oh my god, why does the games industry in Australia have to suck so much. We pay more and we get less, it seems to be as simple as that. I cannot count the times I hear whiny American voices complaining over chat rooms in games about how, "games are too expensive, $60 is way to much for a new game!". Well you must have it soooooo tough, its not as if, just last year, new release games were costing up to $120? oh right they were, goddamn it Australia. What makes it even worse is that our experience of these games is not as well rounded as in other countries.
Our classification of r-18 games which only came in recently, still doesn't allow the full content of games from overseas, with games like "south park-the stick of truth" still having some of their content censored and replaced with a crying koala. Even games which don't have censorship issues, but are online based, suffer greatly in Australia due to the dominant nature of having american based servers, and the lack of an NBN system implemented in Australia. If only Australia could help foster the creative boom that is the games industry and allow an ease of access to the full range of content that the world has to offer, then maybe I wouldn't have to hate everything as much as I do.

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