Australian pol says country's ratings 'out of step'

By Randolph Ramsay on 01 April 2008

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Comments: It's very simple. You cannot expect game developers to compromise thier artistic vision just to cater for some backward nation that makes up a fraction of thier overall market. The choice is 1. we allow R rated games or 2. we miss out on these games completely.

For those of you that say they don't care for the things (such as violence) that R would bring, there is a simple solution... DON'T PLAY IT. You do have a choice. And b4 you complain about children getting hold of them - there is this thing called PARENTING....

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