We’ve just gotten word that the Dead or Alive: Dimensions, which was the subject of much controversy in the mainstream media as of late, has had its classification revoked. We’re currently looking into this and will have more information soon.
Dead Or Alive: Dimensions Has Its Classification Revoked
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56 responses to “Dead Or Alive: Dimensions Has Its Classification Revoked”
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maelkannSo if they changed the in game ages of these characters to 18, would this all be averted?
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FenixiusR18+ has nothing to do with this. This’s been censored due to allegations of underage characters in compromising angles. It’s absolute bullshit, and I’m incensed with violent rage. Not only that, it’s hysterical pandering and an embarrasment.
I can only assume that’s the reason, anyway. I hate Australia sometimes.
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AsuronHave you seen yahoo news, they even go as far as calling it child porn
Media hysteria at its finest folks
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BlueMaximaI didn’t even think that was possible.
Then again, this is the AUSTRALIAN government we’re talking about.
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Matthew KermeenSo, are we just going to assume that the classification board randomly decided the game is offensive now, because people in Europe think it’s child porn?
First we can’t have flat chested women in porn because they’re too childish. I guess busty animated ninjas are inappropriate now too?
It could be perfectly innocent, maybe they just want to bump it up to M/MA15+ or somethnig like every other game in the series.
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Steve0Just wait until they realise chicks with a brazilian look underage and also get banned.
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FlumpfOFFS. Duke, when you’re finished at Kotaku today buddy, go and give the Classification Board a whupping for us? Cheers.
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KlutarI suddenly have the urge to buy this game.
Thanks mainstream media and righteous crusaders!-
buckEYeah me too…I’m totally getting it tomorrow if it hasn’t already been taken off shelves.
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BishI can’t help but feel that there’s possibly some warped irony in us making an argument “We want ratings to be in line with other countries”, and then them suddenly comparing it with Sweden’s classification of the game.
It’s like, of all the times to actually take note of one of our points, you pick the most idiotic and ridiculous example. -
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BenThis is the most retarded thing of all retarded things in existence. The fact that there’s even a slight assumption concerning child-porn is just beyond ridiculous.
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Sam GTalk about a knee-jerk response… they can’t do anything right. I honestly don’t really care too much about the series, but seriously? Child porn? It was ridiculous when it was declared as such in Sweden, and it’s ridiculous over here as well.
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StrangeWell, I guess we can’t have it both ways. If we can get Fallout 3 and the like reclassified so we can play it, we can’t complain when they decide to reclassify DOA. .
Note: I do think it’s a bit ridiculous though.
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Trjn
The difference is that Fallout 3, Left 4 Dead 2 and pretty much every game that has been RCed and then accepted has been resubmitted to the Classification Board, most of the time with changes based on the original classification review.
DOA was not resubmitted. It was just revoked.
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Lone WolfSo, due to the fact that the character’s age, unspecified in the game or the manual, is documented as below 18 in another country and because there is a photography mode which you can capture images of them in clothed but compomising positions, and because yet another country has taken it to task, the Australian Government has revoked it’s rating. For free, too, which I didn’t believe them to be capable of.
Hopefully this will create a precedent that any game which may be reclassified due to the introduction of previously unavailable information, such as an R18+ rating, will be done for free.
Wait, does this mean DOA beach volleyball has to have it’s classification revoked? -
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JemWell this is the only country in the western world to have charged a man with viewing child porn for looking at cartoons of Bart Simpson having sex.
We shouldn’t be surprised at anything.
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RaygunBrownMind-numbingly ridiculous.
Let me get this straight, because of a complaint and media beat-up in another country that have no basis in reality, politicians in this country raise concerns and get this game banned.
IT’S MANHUNT ALL OVER AGAIN GODDAMMIT
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Lord CrumplebottomFrom PG to revoked. The mind is baffled.
P.S. Fistbeard is lol’ing as he’s playing it right now on his 3DS.
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ChazIt’s moments like these that conjure up images of the government, the classification board, the ACL, Australian cricket team selectors, and some daily telegraph “journalists” sitting in stone cutters robes clinking to another successful day’s work.
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RetroSettle down already. It’s been revoked, not RC’d. Chances are it’ll go in for reclassification and come out with an M at worst. It’s a waste of time and money, yes, but it’s not the end of the world.
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DutchSure some of the costumes are a bit risque, but I’ve seen nothing so far that should suggest it was worthy of an MA rating or worse.
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FoggyNotice to dumbasses: This game has been refused classifiction on the basis that it contains sexualised images of people under the age of 18.
Sexualised images of minors would be banned under ANY classifcation scheme, as they should be.
This isn’t an issue that has anything to do with nutty christians, dumbass polititians or the R18+ rating.
Yes you can make the argument that they could just change the ages to 19 and it would be fine- and they can. But the current standard in this country means that an overtly sexualised image of a minor is illegal in any form (yeah thats an objective decision, and the classification board made one – deal with it).
Maybe the developers shouldn’t be so dimwitted and immature as to offend the basic standards of a whole bunch of countries…
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Foggy
Oh and Mark- you should change the picture from the top of this page making it clear that this issue has NOTHING at all to do with the R18+ rating, before we get some nutcase running the line “gamers support child exploitation as part classification review” or some other such nonsense.
Sorry if I seem annoyed by this- its an annoying diversion from the actual issue.
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Trjn
Except it was deemed acceptable the first time it was classified and as far as I’m aware the age of the characters are not specified.
If they had used that reasoning from the very beginning, that would have been fine, but this game has been on shelf with a PG rating.
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pew pewand yet doa:xbv 1 and 2 made it through no problem with the same girls in similar situations. Absurd.
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Jem
“an overtly sexualised image of a minor is illegal in any form”
Once more for the slow brigade:
These. Aren’t. Real. People.
They. Are. Cartoons.
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Karachi KingThe SMH article linked to the other day (link below) says that the Classification Board “must not reclassify a game within 2 years”.
While I wouldn’t put it past a journalist to just make something up, if this exists in the code, surely what they have done is illegal?
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AronIt’s funny, I was playing it the other day and any of the girls who could be interpreted as being under 18 had “n/a” listed next to their age. Sooooo… How do we REALLY know if they’re underage?
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NegativeZero
Actually, if anything this just underscores how ludicrious it is to try and ascribe ‘ages’ to completely fictional characters and apply legislation to that. It’s 2011. Dead or Alive first released in 1996. Somehow they’ve managed to stay “underage” for fifteen years.
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TommoPuppy
And to think this all started as a joke on a Swedish forum and now theirs and our government are both taking it seriously, like PUSSIES. Fuck the overly strict laws on things that could be perceived as under-age porn, I say we have a ban on things that could be perceived as under-age politicians.
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jayfirst of all, why is DOA suddenly “bad” now considering the first FOUR GAMES have made it in stores since 10 years ago???? and wtf, if a girl kicks you in the face of course her skirt is gonna lift up. and why does changing their age from 17 to 18 suddenly make this shit okay? it ain’t morals, its all just statutory BS welcome to the machine world.
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BraaainsIs this seriously about a brief glimpse of underwear under a skirt?
Seriously, couldn’t anybody see the same thing (but REAL!) going to any high school girls netball game?
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QoutheravenBan All womens sport as the costumes are just objectifying women I mean look at Swimming, Diving and Gymnastics… Underage Children in revealing clothes… these sports should be RC’d until they all wear clothes more appropriate to not showing off a womans athletic form
this post may contain sarcasm…
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MartiniI got this game from ozgameshop.com so it’s PAL even though it’s probably not the Australian version and works fine. In my version all of the character models look exactly the same but none of the profiles for the girls say that are under 18. The two youngest looking are Kitomi at age 18 and Leifang aged 19.
Mfw they plan to change the profile age to over 18 and leave the models looking the same, but since it doesn’t say they are younger then 18 “now it’s okay” *facepalm*
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Fistbeard McTavishI love how this story broke when I was in the middle of an online match, playing as Brad Wong.
HUUURRR DUUUURRR.
Hey, I now have a rare “PG” rated collector’s edition of the game. Sweet!
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Lord Crumplebottom
If anything this proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the OFLC do NOT do their jobs but instead rely upon media and focus groups to do it for them. Even loading the game would have shown them the content they are now um’ing and ah’ing over.
Clowns.
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Fistbeard McTavish
Nice job of the Sydney Morning Herald Photoshopping Nipple protrusions from Kasumi and Ayane’s Tops.
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PeterI also like how one article says “Nintendo could not be reached for comment.” How about you give them a chance to realise its happened
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MaseI’m more worried about the fact that the ACB has pulled the classification of a game that is already on store shelves on what is practically a whim.
Do we, the Australian public, have any say on what happens in our country anymore? I hate to say it but i believe that we live, not in an elected government democratic system, but a dictatorship. I know it sounds extreme, but just take a close look at the current political climate and how easy the outdated mandates we work with are destroying the Australian people.
It’s things like this that are turning the normal Australian into a criminal. How many people imported Mortal Kombat because the ACB mandates are from the 1980s and don’t account for current technology? I know I did!
The more things like this happen, the more people are going to risk becoming criminals in order to be treated on the same level as the rest of the world.
Yes i know the whole “child porn” thing is bad. But it’s a bunch of pixels! It’s not like you have to go out into the world and take up-skirt photos of school girls. Stop babying the Australian public and just let us be human!
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Broken Code.I wouldn’t freak out over this just yet. Chances are that it’ll just be re-badged as M or MA15, which to be fair, it kinda should be.
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Dutch
I bought the game from ozgameshop and can advise that the ages for Kasumi, Ayane and Kokoro are listed as N/A. Not 17.
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RappoUmmm, it’s a fighting game, they’re wearing cloths they can move in, seems reasonable to me…
Lets ban the olympics for sexualizing those young gymnists and swimmers and such.
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