>An Australian senator is calling for a crackdown on popular multiplayer first-person shooter games, labelling them a form of “online gambling” targeting children. >Nick Xenophon, the independent senator for South Australia, has said he will introduce a bill to parliament calling for games such as Counter Strike: Global Offensive to be defined as gambling, updating the country’s 2001 Interactive Gambling Act. >Counter Strike: Global Offensive became the world’s most successful first-person shooter game after it allowed players to obtain virtual weapons, or “skins”, which can range in value from a few cents to thousands of dollars, depending in their rarity. >These skins can then be sold for real money on Steam - the game developer Valve’s in-game marketplace. They can also be bought and sold on third party sites and used like gambling chips on online blackjack and roulette sites.
Haven't volvo already circumvented this once by saying it's not gambling since you are guaranteed at least something?
Adrian Long
I'm a grown ass man. If I want to wager my CSGO skins then I will. Fuck off.
Evan Murphy
Pretty much this, or else the shitty gacha machines outside of American supermarkets are gambling too.
Owen Adams
Suddenly Austraila arrests gabe newel for breaking their laws, its total war as steam users can't get onto steam anymore.
Jaxon Stewart
>Australia
LOL
Blake Miller
God damn it Australia. What the ever living fuck is happening to you?
Caleb Richardson
Nick Xenophon's a wanker anyway, don't know anyone who voted for him.
Parker Peterson
Claw machines are actually regulated by the government in the US. They have to have a certain win rate. Claw machines make money by having a certain failure rate as in the claw strength will be randomly weak a certain percentage of the time.
Vidya loot boxes have no regulation which needs to change.
Oliver Torres
>one guy says something stupid >throw entire country under the bus
Jaxon Young
xenophon's a mad cunt
Hudson Russell
>throw entire country under the bus Australia has been under a semi-truck for years.
Austin Foster
>the guy who was behind the butchering of the national broadband network >savior of vidya
kill yourself
Lincoln Richardson
>Xenophon >Xeno
Eli Morris
What Xylophone is suggesting is a bit misguided. I can't agree with Xenomorph here. Xenophobe should read up on the subject before suggesting such broad legislation.
Charles Torres
He's a meme politician who just talks about whatever is popular or relevant that week. He's accomplished basically nothing in 15+ years in politics
The only thing he DID do was stop cinemas checking peoples bags for food
Henry Edwards
Fuck SA, nothing but worthless retards that rely upon welfare in the form of defence contracts,
Liam Kelly
Jokes on you I work at EB games
Jace Howard
My favourite things about Australian videogame censorship threads is watching fucking morons jump metal hurdles to try and blame SJWs and feminists for it instead of the right-wing conservatives who are in charge and actively banning shit.
Daily reminder that the reason most Japanese games get toned down in the Western release is to comply with Australian guidelines which are imposed by right-wingers. But of course autists would rather chimp out and blame a blog written by a liberal that literally nobody has read. Or better yet a handful of tweets that got 6 RTs between them.
Caleb Reyes
Fucking this. It was the god damned SA minister that blocked R18 games for so many years too.
Robert Wood
>right swing >australia
They're all libruls you fucking cunt.
Angel Cooper
>The only thing he DID do was stop cinemas checking peoples bags for food
You're paying for the experience of opening the box/pack/gacha and you get something in the game.
Jack Peterson
>Butthurt amerifag LOLing at a country that actually enforces consumer protection and proper classification of gambling >Implying Australia aren't the country responsible for the introduction of steam refunds
Go get a big black dog up ya, cunt.
Lincoln Taylor
>I'm a grown ass man. >plays CSGO
Nah mate, you need someone to look after you because you're retarded,
Evan Ward
Yes, particularly the large chains. They used a loop hole to check for 'video cameras or weapons' to search school bags and hand bags going into the cinema.
So in 2001/2002 Xenophon protested with all the network channels trying to sneak in bags of food taped to the insides of his jacket and other crap until he got them to admit their search policy was mostly to avoid people bringing in their own food. They since changed their search policy.
Alexander Taylor
In politics it's the conservative right. In localisation it's the regressive left.
Nathan Rivera
it's actually correct.With the introduction of purchasing, trading between users and "not valve enabled" cashout seemingly innocent random skin drops from a crate you opened with a bought key is gambling. Both effectively and "by feeling". It should be restricted to people above 18, and also you should know the exact chances you are facing for each drop.
Gavin Kelly
problem is kids play CSGO and they gamble.
Leo Gray
>the reason most Japanese games get toned down in the Western release is to comply with Australian guidelines
Oh please. We're a tiny market that's not worth the effort of making two versions of a game from most devs.
The toning down is in-house censorship from localisation groups.
Luis Price
>back then it was conservatives that would impose limits on video games >Now liberals are jumping on board too
Henry Jackson
But user, steam refunds ruined the big sales forever. No one wants them anymore.
Julian Richardson
>t the reason most Japanese games get toned down in the Western release is to comply with Australian guidelines
You have no idea what you're talking about.
Josiah Ortiz
He's right though. It was particularly true with Xenoblade
First person shooter games can't be considered gambling considering they are not games of chance or luck. His bill isn't going to pass.
Ryder Evans
>the guy in charge of copper broadband is in for a second term
Juan Robinson
I don't understand how the liberals got voted in again. What the fuck was everyone thinking?
Tyler Hughes
>Nick Xenophon Is he from the Kingdom Hearts constituency?
Aiden Davis
It's more funny that AUS liberals seem to be pretty much US Republicans.
Jeremiah Price
They're economic liberals.
Adam Torres
Why target FPS's instead of phone games which are literally virtual slot machines.
Ryan Perez
>Australian public >Thinking
Pick one and ONLY one
Hunter Adams
The bill isn't about the shooting
It's about using real money to pay for keys to unbox TF2/CSGO shit
Zachary Hughes
Dota/tf2 has the exact same gambling shit yet nobody gives a fuck about them?
Xavier White
because those haven't had a recent big news story for which politicians can hitch their wagons
Kayden Cox
Because FPS have had a recent internet scandal, so this cunt has actually heard of it and is just putting in his reactive knee-jerk "PROTECT DA KIDZ" political move.
Adam Williams
So are Republicans
Levi Murphy
Working in the gambling/gaming industry, I am surprised shit didn't come down a lot sooner for the CS:GO skin stuff. The state can pretty much fine us at any time for any little thing, as well as strict regulation on what is allowed and what isn't allowed (and they are VERY specific).
These idiots that made these cookie-cutter gambling sites and thought they could get away with it makes me laugh.
Isaac Brown
What's the next step in his master plan?
Colton Anderson
There you go. What that means is americans are moralfags and australians are ecofags
Cooper Young
Somebody missed the primaries. Which party is running pro-TPP again?
Hudson White
Fucking South Australia. No other states gives a flying fuck about those cunts. I'd rather kill myself in Sydney harbour than go there.
Luis Sullivan
>tfw we'll never upgrade from the current internet infrastructure that the Aboriginals installed before white man came to Australia
James Perez
Now apparently no one. Trump isn't really a regular Republican anyway.
Angel Sanchez
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Nolan Miller
Dumb cunts vote for dumb cunts.
Gabriel Jones
Is that the cunt who turned up to parliament in his pajamas?
Nathan Price
Turnbull and his mates are neoliberal, Tony and the majority of the LNP party are neoconservatives.
The two philosophies don't always agree.
Isaiah Scott
>one of the few countries that cencors vidya >savior of videogames
Guess living upside down for all those year caused permanent brain damage.
>one of the few countries that cencors vidya >cencors Are you ok, should i call someone?
Adrian Ortiz
Na, we have a far right party which is openly corrupt (coalition) , a centre right party (labor) and a small left wing party (greens)
America just doesn't recognise political ideology whatsoever, as you are stuck with a batshit fucking insane over the horizon right wing party (republican) and a far right party (democrats). Both of which are devastatingly corrupt.
Asher Anderson
>fps >gambling fucking git gud
Ryder Richardson
I forgot I was on neo Sup Forums for a second thanks for reminding me.
Nolan Ortiz
No, you should be pissed off at the people electing the dumbasses in the first place, because it always fall to the people in the end to keep their country in check.
Course, that would require a nation to be nationalist but we all know how much that word has been demonized by media and the left.
Brody Scott
Speaking of Australian gambling, the Australian commision for Gambling are the biggest bunch of wankers I swear to god. Why the fuck would they approve blackjack plus?
I'll tell you the rules, it's the same as normal BJ but the dealer stands on 22. Fuck Crown casino.
Daniel Gray
>Massive job losses from the car industry collapse imminent >Apartment collapse due, which may take the whole housing market down with it >Hold government by ONE seat, fucked if anybody dies or gets sick >No miningbux so forced to cut services or raise taxes >Ability to blame everything on Labor and WE SUPERIOR ECONOMIC MANAGERS starting to run out >Completely cucked by conservative wing of the party and crossbench senators
This is even better then winning the election
Owen Barnes
You're obviously making a point about trade/tax/finance but it's jarring to hear the "blacks gays trannies and muslims are superior to you, shitlord" party described as "far right"
Daniel Miller
Those "republicans" are neo cons and the only master they work for are the kikes.
Joshua Bennett
South Australia is like an internet focused version of Queensland.
Fucking retards the lot.
Should be a forced migration of all SA and QL to the NT, put them all in a children's detention centre.
Country would be saved.
Adrian Perry
>independent in my region destroys liberals to the point they give up and shut down their office >sides with liberals anyway
Jace Fisher
Yeah, well it's easier to complain to politicians than it is to care about your kids and pay attention to what they're doing. The only reason the parents care at all is because they're using mommy and daddy's credit card to do it.
Ayden Perry
but still you are getting something, rare or not. gambling is something in which there is a definite losing Chance
Alexander Allen
Surprised some bullshit youtube drama about some vidya actually made it to politicians ears, let alone them having a platform on it.
The idea of more age restrictions on vidya sounds nice enough but it would also mean even more tax on us auscunts for games.
Andrew Smith
LAND OF TH-
wait
Adam Hughes
For once Australia is not wrong.
If you're an adult then you can gamble so you shouldn't give a shit about this classification. This is done to prevent little kids to fall for this scam fuckery since it's so easy to bait them.
Robert Ortiz
Loot boxes are a game of chance or luck.
Jason Clark
You honestly think they give a fuck about the minorities?
Because they don't, it's just some brown nosing during a campaign.
Besides, link me one over the top "minorities are superiour" type meme actually spoken by any democrat this year and I'll eat my pants.
Dominic Ward
Cathy McGowan I worked with her you know
Sebastian Watson
he's right CS:GO is RNG bullshit
Blake Jenkins
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Henry Morris
Bill has jungle fever?
Carter Jones
>we need to save videogames by voting for nationalists
Why are antiSJWs such fucking imbeciles?
Robert Miller
>10% of the population is black >50% of democrat interns are black
I don't get it
Adrian Cox
>Massive job losses from the car industry collapse imminent Funfact the automotive industry pretends to hire tens of thousands of people so they can get hand outs, but the reality is nearly 90% of the people they 'keep employed' are caterers, hotel owners, transportation, steel manufacturers, etc. People whose jobs don't actually depend on the automotive industry but are occasionally used by them
The real number of jobs DIRECTLY employed by automotive is only a couple thousand.
Ethan Perez
>Vote Trump >All video games are banned except wall building simulators
Oliver Wilson
Welcome to Brazil
Thomas Thomas
>confected image macro >believing it
Jesus, America. You used to have intellect.
Brody Murphy
Republicans dress sharp
Jason Bennett
Maybe this will help you understand
Anthony Ortiz
>63% of Americans are white >100% of Republican interns are white
I don't get it
Thomas Adams
Only someone enrolled in special school, or an American, would believe a bullshit image macro posted on a Mongolian fishing tips tapestry.
