http://www.ausgamers.com/images/features/ag_160_120_wow_rating.jpg The recent movements with Grand Theft Auto 4 and the OFLC reminded me of a question I posed to the OFLC a few years ago that had not been answered - why does World of Warcraft, unlike most other games on retail shelves, not have an OFLC classification?

The answer came through today. Check out our World of Warcraft OFLC shenanigans article for the story.

Quite the loophole. Although as mentioned in the article, I can see a GTA mmo being singled out by the OFLC.

kick ass article trog. wfd.

and has no defined start and end.

Wrong. The defining start is when you create your character, and the defining end is when you are finished grinding a dungeon for days and days and days and weeks and weeks and weeks and months and months and... well ok I see now.

Yeah, I never even noticed it was missing the usual OFLC rating on the box. All it has is the thing saying TEEN - content rated by ESRB, whatever that place is.

The thing people don't realize is, Warcraft is above getting an OFLC rating because it's so ginormous that nothing can stop it!!!

Rated G for Griiiiind.

Oh nice. So all they have to do is put a product-activation like thing in it, to ensure you have a net connection, and it becomes 'online only'. I mean, that's the same as people gaining access to hidden content only by hacking the game making it restricted, right? :)

the defined end date is when the penny drops that you are ploughing your time and money into a giant sink.

any mention as to why it took them 2 years to reply to your email, surely they dont have a 2 year backlog of emails.

any mention as to why it took them 2 years to reply to your email, surely they dont have a 2 year backlog of emails.

they were probably playing wow

with all that soft porn to watch? i don't think so.

That's interesting.

You make good posts.

You make good compliments...

WoW is cool, it even appeals to Wynnum bad boys as much as lonely girls that treat it like a chat room...

WoW is cool, it even appeals to Wynnum bad boys as much as lonely girls that treat it like a chat room...

Lol sup? im not from wynnum but wanna chat? i gots pic.

The Canberra Times picked up this story and wrote an article about it - Nats scanned it for me; if you're interested you can check it out here.

...journalist, Trog of Ausgamers

Classy

Apologies for the late comment.

Very good work here, Trog. Highlighted a huge gap in current censorship laws (and gave me a free article at the same time!) Noice.

I'll be lurking to steal more scoops (with full credit of course).