The Classification Review Board will meet on Wednesday 20 April 2022 to consider the application. The Classification Review Board has received an application to review the classification of the computer game, RimWorld.RimWorld was classified RC (Refused Classification) by the Classification Board on 28 February 2022. Īccording to the Australian Classification website, Thanks everyone for your support on this. We've got some legal professionals and expert witnesses helping out, so I'm optimistic. Good news! The Australian Classification Board it going to review their ruling which banned RimWorld from sale in Australia. What a relief that the Australian Government is finally taking a stand against drugs existing in a video game, this is exactly what everybody was begging for!Īlas, the drama that ensued has now resulted in the classification refusal now being up for review, announced by RimWorld developer Tynan Sylvester on Twitter.
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It’s pretty funny considering RimWorld has been available for PC in Australia since 2018 with no issues, but the revelation then caused for RimWorld to be removed from sale on the Australian Steam store due to the refused classification. This is an update to a previous post covering RimWorld’s ‘refused classification’ being up for review. Get this, guys: drugs in a video game aren’t real! What are the odds of that! Goofs aside, it’s good to see RimWorld back in Australia, and here’s hoping we may see a console launch in future. The game also contains high impact themes that are justified by the context of colonists surviving in an inhospitable fantasy world. The drug use is depicted at a distance through a top-down perspective, in a highly stylised, simplified form. Players may choose for colonist pawns to consume drugs in certain scenarios, but this greatly hinders player progress, as characters will succumb to addiction and must deal with long-term negative impacts of their drug use. The game includes fantasy drug use, but in the Review Board’s opinion, the game mechanic ultimately provides disincentives related to drug-taking behaviour, to the point where regular drug use leads to negative consequences such as overdose, addiction, and withdrawal. In a rare case of a government body in Australia thinking rationally, the Classification Board explained the reasoning for a review and subsequent rating: This is, according to the Board, ‘because the themes and drug use have a high impact’. RimWorld has been rated R18+ in Australia by the Australian Classification Board for ‘high impact themes and drug use’.
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