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The Witcher 2 censored slightly for Australia

by Alexander Sliwinski on May 4th 2011 11:55AM

The Witcher 2 has reportedly been censored ever so slightly for Australian audiences. Games On Net notes that for its MA 15+ rating the titular Witcher can't accept sex as a reward for completing a side quest. Namco Bandai, the game's Aussie distributor, apparently felt that receiving sex as a reward was not suitable for the game. The quest and NPC are still in the game, though the outcome has simply been altered. That's promised to be the only change made for Aussies.

Contacted for comment, a representative for developer CD Projekt told us the company will apparently make a statement about the situation tomorrow. Australia is expected to finally resolve its lack of R18+ rating in a meeting of the attorneys-general this July.

[Thanks, Chris]

Source: Games.On.Net

Tags: Australia, australian-classification-board, CD-Projekt, OFLC, pc, the-witcher-2

Reader Comments (24)

It'd be censored sex anyway. I'd take the equipment and/or money instead.

@Faceless Troll

Er... not completely. I think you haven't played the Witcher.

But yeah, I'd take the gold too.

@Colin I tried playing through the Witcher. But it's such a meaty game it's hard to jump back into after you put it down. I'll finish it one of these days.

@Faceless Troll

Also, from what the pictures they've shown already with the "Triss" Scene, it's defiantly not the censored Dragon Age/Mass Effect Puppet Love sex scenes that's for sure, lol..

A shame that this happened in Aussie.. Hopefully come July their R+18 rating gets introduced and it won't be a problem anymore.

@mp84

The players can probably just download some mod to put them back in anyway.

It's sad that one optional brief side quest can affect the availability of the game in Australia. It must be hard for fully grown adults to be treated like 15 year olds.

@ColorblindMonk

And even more for a country that has a whole zone on a certain city dedicated to sex , adult stuff, and prostitution. Guess virtual sex is still seeing as something evil.

@ColorblindMonk

Fear not. Something like this is easily fixed with a mod.

@ColorblindMonk Kind of ridiculously hypocritical too. People have been doing things just in the hope of being rewarded with sex for thousands of years.

(They do realize if they ban this, they're going to have to ban every James Bond movie ever made, right?)

So what did they do about that quest at the Thorn in Fallout New Vegas?

the amount of people that they are actually censoring this from has to be like 300-1,000 people. is that really worth the effort

Sucks to buy from retail, huh? Censored and more than double the price...

I had no idea the Australian people were subject to this kind of silly ridiculous censorship. I always thought of them as a more mature grown up country.

@Saker

Its so f%(#ing lopsided here man....they show ads that pretty much show a faux-penis limp on bright-magenta/yellow billboards in big bold letters "Can't get it up"....

...but so much anything outside of a damn fart joke in a video game and its banned/censored.

"Namco Bandai ... apparently felt that receiving sex as a reward was not suitable..."

I and countless others beg to differ.

I'd go as far as saying that reward-sex is scientifically proven to be a superb motivational tool and can therefore be considered suitable in a number of scenarios.

We, the global community, should be exploring ANY opportunity to motivate productivity, innovation and collaborative effort in a world reaching its capacity, not curtailing it.

When the oil runs out Namco Bandai, we'll know who to blame.

@Mortim

Are you proposing sex as a form of national currency?

...I can't help but think of the possibilities.

@The Blank Mage Returns
I'll be the richest man in the world

Can you imagine how corrupted Australian youth would become if they were subjected to the insinuation of a video game character doing the Sex!?
I mean, actually controlling the character who engages in wholesale murder is one thing, but allowing the player to simply imagine a sexual encounter took place would create a boner-fied riot.
Er, I meant 'bonafide'.

While we're on it, why does the new Architecture in Helsinki album suck so bad? Come on Australia, get on the ball.

@MLS
I couldn't get into anything after In Case We Die, sadly. Still, looking forward to hearing more An Horse when they're ready...

people seem to forget that this is cd projekt we're talking about.

more than likely, there will be a patch like the director's cut for the first one.

lol, i like Joystiq's funny pictures :)

Because having sex with mythical creatures is EXACTLY to kind of thing that would make Australian kids try out the real thing :/

@lockwoodisbored

If you exhaled loudly, you would have no breath left to make that horrible pun. Inhaling would be a much better choice in that situation.

Yes, Australia may have be backwards in terms of our treatment of adult games and boat people, but at least we have a half-decent education system.

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