| # | Name | Comments |
|---|
| 1201 | Adam Steel | |
| 1202 | Apiwat | Why do alcohol, porn etc are classifield as 18 and over and not games. *sigh |
| 1203 | George | |
| 1204 | Taylor Hobbs | Refusing Fallout 3 classification? There have been far worse. That is ridiculous. |
| 1205 | Matthew Murray | |
| 1206 | Philip Walter | If Movies and DVDs can get an R18+ rating, what's the logic in not having a universal ratings system for games too? |
| 1207 | Owen Hayes | |
| 1208 | James Brewer | |
| 1209 | Adam Turner-Jones | Typical unfair treatment to (relatively) new form of entertainment by oldies out of touch has to stop NOW! |
| 1210 | Rhys Paterson | |
| 1211 | craig wright | |
| 1212 | Cameron Solnordal | |
| 1213 | Anonymous | |
| 1214 | Anonymous | |
| 1215 | Simon Hansen | |
| 1216 | Daniel Smid | |
| 1217 | Jarrod Higgs | |
| 1218 | Kenneth Erickson | |
| 1219 | David Davies | By not having an R18+ rating for games the Australian Government is hurting the economy, increasing piracy and worst of all removing our right to make adult decisions about the content we view. |
| 1220 | Patrick Murphy | |
| 1221 | hunterschild | get with the times give us our R 18+ ratings |
| 1222 | Anonymous | |
| 1223 | Stephen Schulze | |
| 1224 | Andrew Dunn | |
| 1225 | Rajiv Pandita | Why is it still the case that we have an R18+ rating in cinemas and not in games? is it really that hard to implement? |
| 1226 | Anonymous | Banning games moves business overseas, or even worse, to piracy. |
| 1227 | phil barker | |
| 1228 | Russell Morris | Morphine should never be abused, especially when you have been shot unless prescribed by a doctor. |
| 1229 | Andrew Griffiths | The board of classification, when last I checked, was created primarily to inform rather than prohibit.
Violation and censorship of artistic integrity is a foul, totalitarian pursuit; one that I will not willingly abide. |
| 1230 | Michael Sykes | It seems very anti-democracy for the government to play surrogate parent to kids and adults alike. |
| 1231 | Sean Agius | |
| 1232 | Christine Robinson | As an adult gamer I am sick of having restrictions placed on my because young people might get access to questionable material. It is not my responsibility to restrict young gamers from games they should not be playing, that is the place for parents. So before banning games maybe we should have an R18+ ratings for games which better enables parents or guardians to make decisions for their kids and leaves me to play the games I want without restrictions being placed on them. |
| 1233 | Marc Schulz | |
| 1234 | Simon | I support the right to choose if I want to purchase and R rated game. |
| 1235 | Christian Unger | I would like to point out that by introducing an R 18+ rating, it would allow to classify some current titles (GTA 4, Fallout 3 [currently refused classification], Ninja Gaiden 2 and the like) more harshly to remove the heavy violence and adult themes from MA rated games. I do not agree that children should be exposed to some of the games they currently are. Although this is a parenting concern, it is also for the government (though better yet, an independent organization) to inform parents about the real content. I would argue the entire scheme needs to be re-assessed, but at the top of it all should be an adult's liberty to entertain themselves with any material they wish. One may argue against moral content with some games generally being deplorable, but personal liberty and judgment should be something up to the individual not to the government. We might not have a Bill of Rights, but we should still have our natural rights. Never the less this is beyond the scope of this comment field. Thank you |
| 1236 | Stuart Wells | It's time for this country to be a democracy where the majority is listerned too and not a minority or idiots like Michael Atkinson |
| 1237 | Andrew Johnston | |
| 1238 | Anonymous | |
| 1239 | Conrad Ramakers | |
| 1240 | Anonymous | |
| 1241 | Anonymous | |
| 1242 | Anonymous | |
| 1243 | David Vandervlist | |
| 1244 | Anonymous | |
| 1245 | Jason Davies | |
| 1246 | Raymond Suen | |
| 1247 | Julian Cram | Every defense of this ridiculous, archaic and backwards rating system is fundamentally flawed.
The position of "protecting the children" just doesn't cut it.
First and foremost, It is up to parents to restrict content for their children, not the government.
Secondly, there has been no strong evidence to suggest links between computer games and effects on long term behaviour. Short term effects have been seen, but have also occurred on the same scale in laboratory tests after watching sport, violent movies, and even after reading certain passages of the bible.
Thirdly, the interactive nature of games has been found to disengage the player more than non-interactive media, like books and television. Therefore videogames should have the same ratings system, not a higher standard.
Lastly, In every court case where the Video Game Defense has been used in both the USA and UK, proper investigation reveals other motives - usually greed, poverty, or mental trauma - were involved and contributed to the case. Maybe if politicians focused on those kinds of issues we wouldn't get people stabbing and killing "because of videogames". |
| 1248 | Anonymous | |
| 1249 | Ben Carter | |
| 1250 | Anonymous | its just a game
if u really wanna stop this den they should cut off the internet and TV
if a teenager or younger children can get access to free porn on the internet and on TV.
i think thats worse then a game or anything els |