Australian Games Won't Be Able to Play Saints Row IV with the Rest of the World

[Shawn Zipay]

It must suck to live in Australia. Not only are your bugs the sizes of buses but your gaming advisory board just keeps screwing you left and right. Just the other week, Australia finally relented and approved Saints Row IV for distribution in the region, even though about 20 minutes of gameplay were cut along with any of those oh-so-harmful alien narcotics references!

But the removal and blocking of this content means that the Australian version of the game is incompatible with any other version when it comes to co-op. A post was added to the game's Facebook page but was later removed. Thanks to the Internet, the comment lives on.

"While we are very proud of all our different missions, we do feel that Saints Row IV on the whole remains largely the same without this single optional mission, and we also feel that you deserve to know what you are getting in Australia."

Australian ratings board, get your acts together.

[Stev0esque]

I'm not there anymore but the only good that could come from this is the fact that Australian internet speeds are poor at this point so it would only serve to prevent randomly-joined games from being laggy.

Having said that its still pretty shitty. Not to mention that it would also lock New Zealanders out who are relatively close by (quite a few servers for other Multiplayer games are based in NZ.). Also, that speed gap should be getting smaller soon.