Why doesn't Australia have a video games industry?

We do have one though. It's just not a AAA sweatshop.

thats 10min time out, next is a perma dont mess around little kid.

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Boomers won't allow it.

Fuck off back to twitch and reddit faggots

because Australia is a highly taxed shithole with a tall poppy syndrome culture

Anyone with brains and works in the private sector, leaves this dump for USA, Singapore or Europe.

how bout you fuck off to reddit, since you love it so much.

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tfw you're not a ciggy-butt brain

I was in a taxi from the airport in Sydney during a visit once and saw a games company.
Guess who it was...
Atari

train is /ourincel/

Any of you cunts unironically hate living here? I'm patriotic and love my country but there's just something about this country I hate. Everything is so fucking expensive for no reason.

Their government bans pretty much any form of art. It would be pointless wasting time and money on something that would never see the light of day.

>And the one guy who had some infinite voxel shit going on trying to scam investors with it iirc.
It wasn't a scam. The product exists and is used in the geospatial industry. They've moved on from that shit and are now working on hologram technology. They opened a hologram entertainment center a few years back and are selling holograms tables to companies for use in trade shows and shit.

gay af

anyone who can make anything worthwhile moves out of tax shitholes like Australia and into a good country where the government wont steal 50+% of their profit.

It´s mostly indie stuff.

>Everything is so fucking expensive for no reason.
The reason is tax and our awful economy. We aren't even a mining country. We are a quarry.

How are we any different to Africa? Big foreign giants take our resources and give us worthless paper. We are a joke.

bunch of hick europeans. what do you want? some abo rpg?

We did
Do you remember the shadowrun snes game?
Currently hollow knight and goose game are probably our best exports

This. The local market is too small and making a substantial product for the global market is impossible without localisation. Nobody wants an "Australian game" because Australia might as well be on the moon but is somehow incredibly boring and populated exclusively by real estate agents and people who watch NBA replays during their break.

>spearing white cunts
>throwing boomerangs
>dreaming up some crazy shit
I'm in.

What's a centrelink?

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>Nobody wants an "Australian game" because Australia might as well be on the moon
Who the fuck even knows where their video games come from? Apart from Japanese games, obviously. How many people, for example, do you think know Grand Theft Auto is made by a Scottish developer? Or that Mass Effect was made by Canadians? Or that the Battlefield franchise is made by Swedes? Most people probably just assume they're all American made and consider it "obscure trivia" to know a video game developer is not American.

It's a chain of twilight zone theme parks

youtu.be/s96drQkfpPI

Government handouts centre

>didn't fucking read or understand the part about localisation
Do you have any fucking idea how much money it would cost for an Australian to hire an all-American cast and research properly to pull that off? People here are broke or cunts or broke cunts- to make a localised game, it'd be cheaper just to move to another country.

Australian social security.

our gib machine

it's basically a government owned company where they offer financial support to people who are in need, whether that be from unemployment, studying full time, injury, ect.

>Do you have any fucking idea how much money it would cost for an Australian to hire an all-American cast and research properly to pull that off?
Do you really think hiring people who can do an American accent is some insurmountable barrier for Australians? Do you have any idea how many Australian and New Zealand actors there are running around Hollywood routinely pretending to be Americans?

Welfare GIBSMEDATS

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Industry requires a large enough population to sustain it and we do not have that, same goes for Canada. Lots of exporting of talent but not enough local energy, just look at our film 'industry'; plenty of great directors and actors move to the states and work on features historically, while we're left with mostly independent films and a fuck ton of boring period pieces and movies about our local abos, this same phenomenon happens for Canada.

Dole Factory,

And Britain and basically everywhere that isn't the US. Hell in Britain it's even worse because there's actually a huge film industry here, sure, but it doesn't make domestic films, (which all end up being about 'muh Labour' and immigrants with the odd period piece thrown in here and there). It just provides production and creative design for American studios.

Because their government bans games like GTA V.

Does this exist in America?
Is this how NEETs survive?

No it didn't. I'm pretty sure it was only Target being wankers.

because howard was an old boomer who thought vidya was stupid and would rather take a cock from the mining industry.

hell.

I never regret leaving that shitty country. This is the most cringe inducing shit.

it seems that only transexuals and their friends make games these days, or at least those are the only newcomers. are you really surprised that they would rather complain on the 4channel videogame board?

>Do you really think hiring people who can do an American accent is some insurmountable barrier for Australians?
Well doing an Australian accent is evidently an insurmountable barrier for Americans.
Seriously though Heavy Rain existed and I didn't even know the accents were bad until Yas Forums started bitching about it.

Idiots like you perpetuating that Australia bans everything under the sun is why companies like Mica get the wrong idea and self-censor their games.

Imagine being a cuck for fucking abbos LMAO.

ANY A YOU FUCKIN WHITE DOG CUNTS GOT CHANGE FOR DA BUS!?

FUCKIIINNGGG DOOOOOOGGGGGGGGG

YA ON ME LAND FUCKING WHITE DOG CUNT

GIMME A PETROL DEN GOTTA WALKABOUT BRUDDA

DOG

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That's not an abo, that thing isn't nearly white enough.

They did remove a scene from GTA V though. And have banned several games over the years, sometimes for very odd reasons.

You need electricity to play video games.

GTA5 was not censored in Australia, you're probably thinking of the Japanese version.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banned_video_games_in_Australia
52 games were banned or censored in total over the last 25 years, 38 of those were before the R18+ rating was introduced, 17 were either appealed and accepted or released uncensored with an R18+ rating later.

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>sometimes for very odd reasons
Multiple publishers, e.g. Valve, Sega, etc., have complained that the Australian classification board is very, very inconsistent. For example, Left 4 Dead 1 was fine but Left 4 Dead 2 was banned. It's the same fucking game. They banned one game for "promoting graffiti" which is far from some horrendous crime that needs to be stamped out but then they have no problem with games like Jet Set Radio. The Witcher 2 was banned because "sex is used as a reward" but The Witcher 1 was worse in this regard and it was let through uncensored even as the American version was censored. Fucking AvP 3 was banned. First two games were fine, apparently, but the third, which did nothing new, crossed the line. At least that decision was overturned. It seems to be just the luck of whether you get someone uptight or laid back doing the classification. As far as I know they only get multiple people involved in reviewing when the classification is challenged and the challenge is not dismissed.