They aren't missing much, unless the low violence stops wildlife form exploding, after all, its easy to not notice the violence when your looking at the ground looting items.

Kalezian:
They aren't missing much, unless the low violence stops wildlife form exploding, after all, its easy to not notice the violence when your looking at the ground looting items.

Dude. Diablo 2 without blood, Fallout 3 without blood, Left 4 Dead without bloo... Oh, right, this one happened.

But blood is important in bloody games. Even if they are RPGs.

Yeah that's kind of a cruel joke to us -_-

You mean they don't get the joy of tea bagging a bandit blown in half? Awww

hahaha that would've made critical hit kills much less satisfying...like chainsawing someone in Gears with the filter turned on

Whoever's idea for a joke that was, it wasn't funny. The Australians are getting violated every which way by their own version of the FCC.

hey, maybe they'll get lfd2 uncensored by mistake to.

Can violent and non-violent players play together?

It's pretty hilarious really, all things considered.

fisrt madworld was band then LFD2 was band, the LFD2 was super censored, and now borderlands is cencored. it's the anti Zero punctuation conspiracy case. A Conspiracy damn it A Conspiracy!!!

If Australia isn't meant to get the low violence version, then who was the low violence version made for?

I am sooo glad I am moving in less then 2 weeks.
That is all I can say to this and the rest of crap the Australian government has been pulling....

Maze1125:
If Australia isn't meant to get the low violence version, then who was the low violence version made for?

my bet... foresight. They knew screwed up countries like... well Australia... might very well ban a game now because it dares to display a single drop of red on the screen when someone is shot. So in order to release world wide at the same time, as opposed to forcing a whole market to wait six months to a year like is usual for us down here, they planned ahead. This alone should be a dire warning for Australia. Part of me feels it only just made it in with a 15+ rating too, so it was pretty good foresight.

Did TF2 get censored in Australia too?

Malygris:
Borderlands Accidentally Censored in Australia

Australian gamers got a bit of a surprise when they discovered that their Steam preload of Borderlands contained the "low violence" version of the game, even though the uncensored version had been approved for sale in the country.

Poor Australia just can't catch a break. Its silly Classification Board is bad enough, with its arbitrary, often random rulings, but now it seems as if Fate itself is against the gamers of the nation. A few observant folks Down Under noticed during the Borderlands pre-load that the game contained an extra file called "borderlands_low_violence.ncf" which isn't present in the standard North American release of the game. Edited, "low violence" releases of videogames are nothing new in Australia (Left 4 Dead 2, anyone?) but this case seemed odd because as far as anyone knew, the full version of the game had already been approved for sale with an MA15+ rating.

Turns out the whole thing was a mistake. A wildly ironic mistake that probably isn't nearly as funny to Australian gamers as it is to the rest of us, but a mistake nonetheless. How it happened remains a mystery but 2K Games issued a statement confirming that Australians will in fact get the same version of the game as everyone else.

"[2K Australia] have been talking to the US 2K team via email and working out how this happened/ what the next steps are to amend this via Steam," the company said. "They're working on clearing this up with Valve right now and know to ask how they will handle those people who have already d/l'ed the wrong version."

So in the end, as the saying goes, it's all good. And luckily for 2K and everyone else involved, there's time to get this cleared up: Borderlands for the PC was released in North America yesterday but won't come out in Australia until October 30.

Source: AusGamers.com

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WOW! sucks to be in austrailia

Censored accidentally? How the hell are you supposed to censor something 'accidentally'? If you ask me there must be a very bitter person on the Classification Board - with a stick the size of a pole arm up his ass - who censors the stuff they don't like regardless of what anyone says. 'Censored accidentally'. Pff.

well at least they get the good version but I highly doubt it was a mistake...

"Arbitrary, often random"?

I don't mean to be the middle school teacher, but both words basically are synonymous.

That's pretty funny. I think that was just made as a joke, but apparently nobody got it.

Couldn't you just... delete that file?

zombie711:
fisrt madworld was band then LFD2 was band, the LFD2 was super censored, and now borderlands is cencored. it's the anti Zero punctuation conspiracy case. A Conspiracy damn it A Conspiracy!!!

Purin?
(Reference cookie anyone?)

Slightly off topic but... Australia is a great example of why I fervently oppose powerful, centralized government. Governments simply should not be ABLE to ramrod things like a classification board down their citizens throats-- and what are the aussies left to do? They can't even vote the classification board guys out of office.

And what are the odds of a party with an anti-classification-board platform gaining enough legislative clout to torpedo a government agency?

Not high.

What was that old saying about good intentions?

Jinx_Dragon:

Maze1125:
If Australia isn't meant to get the low violence version, then who was the low violence version made for?

my bet... foresight. They knew screwed up countries like... well Australia... might very well ban a game now because it dares to display a single drop of red on the screen when someone is shot. So in order to release world wide at the same time, as opposed to forcing a whole market to wait six months to a year like is usual for us down here, they planned ahead. This alone should be a dire warning for Australia. Part of me feels it only just made it in with a 15+ rating too, so it was pretty good foresight.

What the fuck are you on? How is Australia a screwed up country?

JimmyBassatti:
You Aussies need to seriously do some shit. I can't believe you guys aren't doing anything like rioting. I heard they basically fuck you guys over on everything.

Get your facts straight, they banned a few very violent video games, which is, they did nothing of any significance at all.

Nothing accidental about it.

JimmyBassatti:

traceur_:

JimmyBassatti:
You Aussies need to seriously do some shit. I can't believe you guys aren't doing anything like rioting. I heard they basically fuck you guys over on everything.

Get your facts straight, they banned a few very violent video games, which is, they did nothing of any significance at all.

I thought they also censored a ton of other shit. No need to get your panties in a bunch?

You don't know anything about us or our panties. Yeah, we're pissed off about some of the rulings, but since they guy who could change the way things work, won't do anything because he thinks he's taking the moral high ground, we can't do anything. Riot, or no.

zombie711:
fisrt madworld was band then LFD2 was band, the LFD2 was super censored, and now borderlands is cencored. it's the anti Zero punctuation conspiracy case. A Conspiracy damn it A Conspiracy!!!

Since when was MadWorld banned here? I see plenty of copies in EB Games.