Wow dude, you are bringing in all these different irrelevant arguments to justify your position. Funny, I've got a child, and I hate these laws.
Most laws are pushed by the vocal minority, or by people and corporations with agendas.
Don't confuse apathy to act with lack of caring. Maybe you should try getting a law changed sometime, see how 'empowered' you feel at the end of a years long struggle.
Mhm, exactly. No but you're inferring it.
That kids that play violent games are broken.
Are a danger to society.
And there is NO evidence to back you up.
Perhaps you should provide some instead of pulling in various laws and established methods that are irrelevant and also based on very little factual evidence. Man, I wish I lived in your world.
So black and white. No difficult choices. Just throw it in one bin or the other.

You want to talk about child abuse? Psychological damage?
What about spoiling children? Buying gifts for them constantly. Those kids are real menaces to society. Self entitled horrors.
Maybe we should institute a system that monitors your toy purchases and limits the number you can buy.
You know.. for society.

Perhaps we should also monitor computer usage, because we all know that sitting on consoles and computers all day is bad for them.
We can limit the internet connections at the ISP level. Block anyone who's gone over X amount.
It'll be good for the parents too, get them outside.
You know.. for society.

And perhaps we should just disable all the cars. Or just cover them in balloons. Because they're dangerous to children too. People get run over all the time. Never mind all the laws that are there to encourage you to be safe. You could ignore them! You could hurt someone! Let's remove them!
You know.. for society.

You know what the biggest threat to kids is these days? Not just kids, adults too! Unhealthy foods.
So we'll ban all the fast food outlets. Mandate nutritional minimums in foods. Ban certain foods from shelves. Close down the shops, the producers, the farms.
Because obesity is an epidemic and life threatening. It's going to put a massive strain on our social and medical systems and really ruin our next generations. In fact it already is.
You know.. for society.

See what I did there?

Those are all parenting issues, or personal limits we follow ourselves, or issues of labelling.
We already have these systems in place! We label games with ratings, we label foods with nutritional advice, we label the roads (my god do we label the roads) with safety signs. But people play games they shouldn't, eat foods they shouldn't, and drive in ways they shouldn't.

We cannot impose our own moral standard on everyone. We have to accept that some people are messed up, make stupid decisions, and will mess up their kids.
There is a boundary that, no matter how much we may want to cross it, we simply CANNOT.

Unless you're all for mind control? subservience? eugenics programs? forced castration?
Are you?
What you describe is a totalitarian state with zero tolerance.

The downfall of the internet and freedom as a whole is slowly being brought about under the guise of 'protecting children'. And you've eaten it hook, line, and sinker.

If you're so worried about children and society as a whole, perhaps you should make yourself a biiiiig balloon and crawl inside. You know, to protect you from everything outside.
You could make a whole business out of it, selling them to kids. To protect them from the Universe.
Because it's huge and full of things that hurt!

Or perhaps it's you that should move "to a colony of like-minded" people.
Preferably childless.

The Nazis burned books. Bad, naughty Nazis. Here in Australia we ban books, games and movies- or cut pieces out of them. Burning, banning. What's the difference?

To all Australians, fear the coming of NBN. Setting up the network is just step one. Locking down on it and filtering it is step two. Welcome to new China.

Ever read Fahrenheit 451?

You lost a guaranteed sale from me GOG! :-(

This is what I've been afraid of since you implemented regional pricing.

So very disappointed! I'm already reconsidering buying Witcher 3 from you (Or any new release games) because you'll probably censor it.

What Happened GOG?

P.S. I have read Fahrenheit 451

I absolutely don't blame GOG at all. It's entirely the fault of the Australian government, and I don't think it would be fair for one country's political issues to affect people outside of that country. The only people affected are those with the power to elect a new government.

So, basically the law is acting as a surrogate parent, with a scattershot effect meaning that *everybody* is a child? How about leaving the parenting of children to the actual parents. Problem solved.

I'm a bit late to the party, and a bit confused why the Australian law is enforced on this one but not other titles sold on GOG (mentioned by others already). I'd be appreciated if GOG would comment on this.

I also see no indication on the game pages that the title is not available for purchase to Australia. IMHO, it should, not everyone reads the announcements or the forum threads - or is there data that they do?


It's also quite interesting that the first regionally locked title made its début almost at the same date regional pricing made theirs one year ago; it'd appear that the second half of February is not a bearer of good things on GOG.

Now, you know very well that GOG doesn't like to talk about those anymore hence the radio silence as always. I am also curious as to why GOG for this particular game decided to preemtively ban the sale to Australian customers when there probably wasn't any court order issued against them yet. Quite an unfortunate turn of events for Aussies hoping to get the game on GOG since it is the case with others that have been refused classification before.

All are pertinent questions indeed and the regional pricing is not doing the game any favors either as many will hold off on purchasing it at full price now.

The only people that such an indication would have any impact on is Australians - and they can't reach that page to read it anyway.

All I wanted to say is that I instantly pre-ordered the Deluxe Edition. I know how much -- and how strongly -- the GOG community opposes pre-ordering, but I still did it. I think the guys at Dennaton Games, Devolver and GOG deserve my support, and I trust the game won't be broken or anything like that.

I had already pre-ordered Grim Fandango Remastered, even though I kind of knew it wouldn't run on my machine, and I don't regret it one bit. I also pre-ordered Broken Sword 5 because I'm a long time Broken Sword and I wanted to show Revolution my support. I don't care about pre-order exclusives, I believe that if you cherish a franchise or a developer, if you trust them at least a bit and you want to show them support, there's nothing wrong in having the option to pre-order a title or a series. So far, neither Revolution nor Double Fine have let me down with either one of those titles, and I trust Devolver Digital won't, as well.

As for the whole Australian ban debacle, I'd rather not have any part in it. I feel sorry for all you Aussies, but I don't think it's GOG's fault, it's the fault of overly protective governments -- like yours is being in this regard --, not digital distribution stores. I understand why GOG doesn't want to go judicial against a government of a country.

Such indications also serve informative purposes, it's not exclusively about the direct impact. But since GOG dropped any information about regional pricing from announcements, I don't really expect them to see any merit in my suggestion.

As I posted in another thread, I see a difference between region restrictions in movies that were created by greed and a ban in a specific country that was not the fault of the devs/publishers.

Konrad, why the huge gaps between certain paragraphs? :P

What does this mean?