Silent Hill f has got rid of getting banned in Australia

TOI Sports Desk / TIMESOFINDIA.COM / Mar 31, 2025, 22:51 IST

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Silent Hill f was mistakenly reported as banned in Australia due to an automated system error. The Australian Classification Board clarified that the game is not banned and will receive a formal rating before its release. The initial ban was caused by a self-report tool, which can overestimate ratings. Physical releases must be rated by the Board.

Silent Hill f has got rid of getting banned in Australia

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At first, Silent Hill was essentially banned from the Australian market on a number of platforms when the Australian Classification Board declined to assign it a f rating. Although the official release date for Konami's next horror game has not yet been announced, age ratings have begun to come in, confirming what many people already suspected: the game will be extremely mature, violent, and maybe frightening.
Although it didn’t give a reason, Australia's ratings body went so far as to ban Silent Hill. However, this is actually not the case, according to an official statement from the Australian Classification Board clarifying the situation.

Silent Hill f isn’t banned in Australia

Despite an original report that Silent Hill f was apparently banned in Australia without a formal cause, it turns out that this was an error. Silent Hill f will contain a lot of violent images and dark themes. The game is not banned in Australia, according to a statement supplied by Stevior from the Australian Classification Board, which stated that "Silent Hill f is not currently classified as 'Refused Classification' in Australia."
The statement goes on to say: "A classification decision will be published to the National Classification Database prior to the game's release, and the entry from March 14, 2025, has been removed." The Australian Classification Board's website no longer has a page for Silent Hill f.

According to Stevior and other sources, the game's initial ban was caused by a self-report made through the automated system of the Australian Classification Board. "A classification system designed for mobile and digitally delivered games" is what IGN describes as the self-report tool, which is supervised by the International Age Rating Coalition. Users can respond to a straightforward questionnaire about the game's content as part of the IARC's classification system, and the product will then automatically receive a rating.
This tool tends to skew higher than ratings made by humans and is only applicable to digitally released games in Australia. According to reports, Kingdom Come: Deliverance was banned in 2019 due to this auto-system, but this was untrue.
In Australia, all physical releases must be rated by the Australian Classification Board, which has the authority to override any automatic rating.

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