Aqizzar: I guess I wasn't clear, my bad. I think everyone involved is pretty silly. The rating body is obviously too strict really. But the gaming community as usual overreacts to everything. And this author may have good points, but he gave us an impossible ultimatum. I guess I am silly now too, for getting involved in it.
But every single time I post something newsy, you come in and take a contrarian position every single time, so I think it's pretty justified that I've come to my conclusion. I'm not being anal about some minor dispute in which you were a total dick
(joking), just stating the obvious facts that everyone else probably already noticed. We just have totally different ideologies. It's like a cannibal and vegetarian attempting to debate. I've asked some of the other Bay12-ers and they agree that we just never agree so I think it's pretty fair. There's really no point in us debating. Though I guess it could work as a form of conversation starter for the rest of the other forum populace. Alpha and Omega of the argument. Huh... that's interesting... I'd rather debate a contrarian position with you than with some of the other people here who would no doubt attempt to articulate what you said in a more... convoluted manner.
Anyway, that's completely out the point of the topic as it stands. Right now, we're looking at a gaming censorship regulatory board who, in my opinion, while retarded, haven't exactly banned a lot of games which don't kinda suck anyway. The full list is on Wikipedia and I'm sure you agree, most of those are pretty crap. All the good ones (except Left 4 Dead 2 but I think Valve was trying to make a statement) got the ratings appealed and were released in the same condition as every other country. Just with an M rating.
Zangi: Good point, but still totally hypocritical. It simply means that while that does work, gamers can't take the moral high ground which they like to do as they just stooped to the level of the people they hate. To fight the enemy, they became the enemy, so to speak. Definitely smart, but I'm not too sure if it's in the gamer community's reputation's best interest.
Leo: ?
Edit: Looking through the Wikipedia game ban list, I think Germany and Brazil are worse. Everquest... seriously? For nudity? There's nudity in Everquest?