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not in australia, mate, but yeah. in aus we still get the esrb notices "experience may change during online play" as you've noted, but the esrb rating has nothing to do with the game's classification in australia. we have our own board and set of rules.

which suck, btw. no ratings higher than ma15+. i wrote an email asking about it, and telling them why they're contradicting themselves (if you see their code you'll know what i mean), and they sent me a letter from the governor general's office saying that they've had a couple meetings in the last two years to discuss their rules, but no explanation as to why they suck.

there's my rant for the day.

julz



In holland we also have our own rating system, called PEGI, i know the UK has one of it's own as well (the red circle with 15+ in it, lol, dunno their name).

So yeah, it would probably all be different in every country.
you could have a rating of AO in america while in EU it would be 16+

imho all these ratings are all a bit a bit useless, they are just guidelines to parents, but if a kid wants the game, they'll ask an older brother/nephew/uncle to go out and buy it...

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