June 10th 2009
Australia against Sex Poker
It seems that Australian government takes over the task to establish order in the sphere of online gambling. Recently the Australian Office of Film and Literature Classification Board have rejected the title of new game Sexy Poker. The release of the casino game has been planed later this year, it is based on the Wii platform. But from the point of view of the government the customers probably will not be able to find and play this game legally.
In fact there is nothing new in the concept of the game, stripping-incentive concept is used quite frequently in the different games including poker. Why does this game face with the restrictions?
The OFLC has the highest rating of MA15+, the Board has passed the special anti-nudity rule which is the base of the Classification of Films and Computer Games. According to this rule the companies are forbidden to use nudity in the games, that’s why the launching of Sexy Poker is questionable.
In a case you have the experience of playing strip poker, you know that clothes are the betting currency. The same idea is the base of the Sex Poker, playing this game you can see six female opponents and after every round the number of clothes will be reduced. Because of the fact the nudity is the main plot and the key point of the product, the game almost doesn’t have any chance to overcome the MA15+ standard. But in contrast to Australia the game has already passed successfully all the tests in Europe and some other countries.
