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Another One Bites The Dust - CrimeCraft Refused Classification
Post by Steve Farrelly @ 02:01pm 30/11/09 | 24 Comments
The Classification Board has RC'd another game here in Australia, this time MMO CrimeCraft, which was allowed sale in the US after being awarded a Mature Rating from the ESRB.

The game is a massively multiplayer online game that allows players to partake in online multiplayer games of Capture The Flag, Team Deathmatch and more. You can customise female avatars to wear skimpy clothes, but there is no blatant nudity. Moreover, while violent, the game is arguably less gory and confronting than other games such as Fallout 3 or MadWorld (watch this trailer for more).

Refused-Classification.com points out this is the fifth game refused classification this year. It's not known - specifically - at the time of writing what the Board's objections were to the game.






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Reverend Evil™
Posted 02:06pm 30/11/09
I just watched the trailer and there wasn't anything bad at all. Just looked like a DM style of game.
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FraktuRe
Posted 02:20pm 30/11/09
I thought online only games weren't classified in AU?
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koopz
Posted 02:27pm 30/11/09
I thought online only games weren't classified in AU?


if they also come on dvd they have to be classified


hey wait - did WoW come on DVD?
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HurricaneJim
Posted 02:28pm 30/11/09
Lol, So they can't sell the box. Which btw wasn't available in Australia.....

You are supposed to go to their website and download the game......

Kind of defeats the purpose of the Classification Board.
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ravn0s
Posted 02:44pm 30/11/09
I thought online only games weren't classified in AU?


i thought they changed it so that mmo's need to be classified now
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tequila
Posted 02:48pm 30/11/09
wow, they're really inconsistent
that video was completely tame, when compared to other "MA15+" classified games
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Twisted
Posted 03:30pm 30/11/09
Ugh...how is this game worse than GOW/GOW2, etc? Just looks like a tame version of that.



Or is it a different title that this movie is on about?
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ViscoS
Posted 03:39pm 30/11/09
It's probably the fact the corpes still produce blood when shot.
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Thermal Ions
Posted 04:29pm 30/11/09
Reported over on Kotaku:

The Classification Board has stated that “drug use related to incentives or rewards” is the reason why gangster-themed MMO Crimecraft has been refused classification in Australia.

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2009/11/drug-use-the-reason-for-crimecraft-banning/
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thermite
Posted 04:31pm 30/11/09
good name dude
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ConcernedGamer
Posted 05:18pm 30/11/09
IM FREAKING MOVEING TO AMERICA THIS IS BULL$SHIT. OFLC, STEVEN CONROY, MICHAEL ATKINSON CANA LL SUCK MY BIG FAT ASS NATTERS> THIS IS THE LAST STRAW
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Steve Farrelly
Posted 05:24pm 30/11/09
haha wtf?
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tequila
Posted 05:37pm 30/11/09
just import it, way better than actually living in America imo
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ViscoS
Posted 06:26pm 30/11/09
All Points Bulletin is still looking better anyway.
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taggs
Posted 06:49pm 30/11/09
wow, that gamer sure is concerned
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greazy
Posted 07:11pm 30/11/09
will someone shoot that guy?
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ConcernedGamer
Posted 11:02pm 30/11/09
FUCK AKTINSON AND FUCK EVERY ONE OF YOUR ATKINSON APOLOGISTS. THIS HAS GONE ON TOO LONG AND TOO FAR.

WE GAMERS MUST RISE UP AND STRIKE
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groganus
Posted 11:22pm 30/11/09
FUCK AKTINSON AND FUCK EVERY ONE OF YOUR ATKINSON APOLOGISTS. THIS HAS GONE ON TOO LONG AND TOO FAR.

WE GAMERS MUST RISE UP AND STRIKE


Can i have your stuff when the government kills you?
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euphoria
Posted 11:33pm 30/11/09
How about you rise up and press that caps lock key a second time?
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Hogfather
Posted 11:47pm 30/11/09
wow, that gamer sure is concerned
haha
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ctd
Posted 12:10am 01/12/09
More importantly, does this game look any good?

+1 that APB game looks pretty darn cool. Whether it is actually any fun might be a different story.
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Midda
Posted 12:14am 01/12/09
I thought online only games weren't classified in AU?

I've read that it's not required, but the publisher can submit their game for classification voluntarily.
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Noonga
Posted 03:12am 01/12/09
If it's on computer, there will always be ways around it.
If it's on console, you suck. get a real machine
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Strange Rash
Posted 08:36am 01/12/09
looks like a shit game anyway
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