Comments on: SoF: Payback Delayed In Oz?

By: Logan Booker

Logan Booker — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:48:44 +0000

Activision has commented: http://www.kotaku.com.au/games/2007/10/activision_on_soldier_of_fortune_payback_delay.html

It's not an OFLC thing or a typo. ;)

@MikeZombie777: "What about the European release?" - If we were the European version of Kotaku, we'd know!

By: MikeZombie777

MikeZombie777 — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:43:55 +0000

Regardless, if people knew anything about the classification system they wouldn’t be pulling the OFLC card. Games are delayed for a variety of reasons, as I said it’s not unusual for games to be delayed in the Australasian/PAL regions for no apparent reason other than to piss everybody off. In the end it usually comes down to marketing. What about the European release? Anybody mention that yet? It’s highly likely that it’s either a typo or we’re just getting screwed over for the trillionth time.

By: Logan Booker

Logan Booker — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:19:02 +0000

@MikeZombie777: It’s highly unlikely it’s a typo. If you read the US release (linked in the story) and compare it to the Oz one here, they’re almost identical save for the localisation and release date. This suggests that it was an intentional change.

By: MikeZombie777

MikeZombie777 — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:54:22 +0000

What the hell makes you think it's got anything to do with the OFLC? First of all it hasn't even been submitted for classification yet, you can find this out by simply going to classification.gov.au and doing a search. For a big release like SOF the publishers would have most definitely informed the gaming community of the news by now had censoring been required. It would be all over the internet! Come on do you honestly that conventional gore effects like those seen the SOF games would be removed? You'd have to be pretty ignorant of the classification system and previously classified games to think so.

Extremely gory Games like Gears of War, Dead Rising, Bloodrayne 2, The Darkness, Jerico, Bioshock, the Mortal Kombat games, the GTA games etc. have all been released in Australia without having to have gore effects removed or toned down. Please get real for fuck sake and stop spreading sensationalism. Games are released late in Australia and New Zealand all the time without being censored, it's common practice. This isn't Germany or Singapore, get a grip people. Learn a thing or two about the classification system, it's nowhere near as bad as some attention seeking sensationalist would have you believe.

Personally I think it's just a typo.

By: Logan Booker

Logan Booker — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:40:13 +0000

I’ve asked Activision for more info on the specifics of the delay.

By: Simon Hutchinson

Simon Hutchinson — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 05:33:44 +0000

OFLC strikes again!

By: P.P.Bohner

P.P.Bohner — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 05:18:57 +0000

I have a bad feeling the delay’s going to be due to removing gore effects from the game so it can qualify for the highest rating we have in this conservative-voting country, “MA”. And if you can’t desecrate corpses in a SOF game, what’s the point?