WoW Still On Sale in Australia

06 Feb 2009 at 18:15:59 by Bill Vaughan

Despite reports earlier in the week that World of Warcraft and other MMOs were being withdrawn from sale due to legal reasons, the games are still for sale in all stores.

A loophole in the Australian law that allowed online games with no single-player content to go on sale without a classification was exposed earlier this week, and the federal and state attorneys-general declared that all titles without this classification were to be withdrawn from sale. However, this only applied in NSW, the other states were unaffected. Also, it was up to the police to act on complaints about sales of the games, something which they are unlikely to receive.

There certainly IS a loophole in the Australian law, but the whole classification system needs a good overhaul and nothing is likely to happen until that takes place.

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