Thread 713068936

Why is the game industry so lacking in Australia?

Taxes. Why do you keep making these threads? I swear we are the only country that does this, across both /tv/ and /v/. It's not that hard to figure out.

>>713068936 (OP)
Red Poppy Syndrome

>>713068936 (OP)
I don't know how the gaming industry in Australia works, but the film industry is insanely corrupt and pozzed to hell. If you can get past all the nepotism and corruption, there is a dozen different hoops you need to go through to get funded by the Government or the ABC. Hiring practices that would put Netflix to shame, a banner on your movie and at the beginning of your movie about how you dedicate it to the native peoples etc. Hiring a bunch of different Aboriginal people to play core rolls. The ABC also requires insanely progressive propaganda to be in your content demanding story lines about White Racism and White Surpremacy. Etc.

I'd assume the Games industry is the same if you're trying to get funding.

This is also why the best Australian movies and TV shows are funded by outside of Australia. Mr. Inbetween is a perfect example. Funded by FOX rather than the Australian Government.

>>713069103
Cucked nation

>>713069141
The government is insanely corrupt and no one seems to care. So yes, I agree. I hate it.

It's not really a country that inspires its youth. Much like New Zealand, it's a peaceful country that nothing much happens in, except New Zealand is even more peacefuller (boring). If a retirement home can be represented in the form of countries, they would be New Zealand and Australia.

>>713069103
>Mr. Inbetween is a perfect example. Funded by FOX rather than the Australian Government.
oh that explains why it was allowed to be good.

>>713069029
>Why do you keep making these threads?

Because it's the only way to stop the voices from screaming at me. Peanut nipples. Spatula turkey. Two plus two equals fish.

>>713068936 (OP)
The country actively shits on and creates obstacles for any pursuit not related to trades or sports

>>713069183
>The government is insanely corrupt

All governments should be insanely corrupt. The entire world should drown in corruption.

>>713069283
>trades

Why do Aussies go to uni if trades are where the money is

>>713068936 (OP)
kino incoming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ez7AP4-GM

>>713068936 (OP)
27M population, small country with minimal human capital

>>713068936 (OP)
Werent the dev teams behind Hand of Fate and Ring of Pain Australian?

>>713068936 (OP)
Financial crisis of 2008 killed the triple A industry in Australia. No one knows why it never recovered. One year later is when we saw Pandemic Brisbane go down in flames in 2009 for example. Krome studios shut down in 2010, THQ Melbourne and THQ Brisbane shut down in 2011. Along with Visceral games Melbourne and Team Bondi that same year. The longest holdout was 2K Australia (of Bioshock fame) that closed doors in 2015.

australia is getting pretty pozzed sadly

wasn't that really overrated goose game from australia?

>>713068936 (OP)
The last time I was in Australia I was in perth and all I did was smoke a metric ton of weed. Give me some good Aussie games

Meanwhile across the ditch we're making generational titles like DayZ and Path Of Exile

KEKAROOOOOOOOOO

Aussies will defend the price

>>713069750
nobody defends EB Games

>>713068936 (OP)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banned_video_games_in_Australia

because it is a shithole

>>713069103
>>713069215

Because australians may as well be niggers. I work in the australian software development industry. for every developer there are a dozen retards wasting my time who get paid over 100k a year to do so. And my performance isn't measured by delivering quality software it's measured by retarded arbitrary metrics. We are importing jeets and malasians to run software teams and they make corrupt deals with vendors. Australia is completely fucked and we will end up like india shitting in the street.

Oh boy is this le heckin le ausfag le thread?
Cunt cunt cunt
politics
le do I le heckin le fit in guise XDDD?!?

>>713069965
drop the act bruce, i know you're true blue

>>713069827
>Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition (2022)
>Banned by IARC for interactive sexual activity involving a person who is, or appears to be, a child under 18 years

>>713069029
I've recently heard that autistic people will make the same threads over and over again until the conversation goes 'right'.

>>713069965
no, you sound too intellectual to pass as an australian

>>713068936 (OP)
as an australian we lacking in EVERYTHING
also we have more or equal amounts of regulation as the EU
also good luck ever getting a loan for a business here, banks only give out loans for mining/houses

>>713069827
>South Park: The Stick of Truth
>Banned because of scenes of sexual violence involving minors. Those censored scenes involved the underaged main character getting anally probed by aliens, giving an abortion and receiving one. A version was released replacing those scenes with a card of a koala crying humorously explaining what has been cut.

>>713070138
You're either a completely shitfaced bogan or the most effete intellectual faggot on the face of the earth, there's no inbetween.

average day in NT

They're just like me

This is the last RTS game i remember being produced in Australia since Medieval Total War 2 by Creative Assembly/Sega Australia.

Black Labs Games is based up in WA and they made Battlesector. I think Playside which is melbourne based is working on that GoT licensed RTS game too.

>>713070327
Without looking it up, you can tell this happened in Melbourne

What happens in WA

>>713070354
What is it with us and RTS games?

>>713070327
god i hate white people

>>713070327
they are pretty cute ngl
>>713070402
digging holes

>>713069375
>Hand of Fate and Ring of Pain
Just stop putting your hand up there and the pain will go away on its own.

>>713068936 (OP)
Why wouldn't it be? As far as entertainment goes, we're trash. Our TV is absolutely dogshit, our movies are basically non-existent. Some decent music but that's about it. We're just a very uncreative people.

>>713070402
Great games of Origin footy apparently

>>713070402
not much. although we've recently overtaken brisbane to become the third most important city in australia

>>713069308
Being a tradie is low status even if you make more money.

Because the only entertainment we need is AFL and betting on the AFL.

>>713069029
it's not the taxes, japan has higher taxes, but their cost of living is lower and their government and economy works
it's the whole cost of living/housing here that sucks all your money away, so you can't spend time making anything

>>713069103
>there is a dozen different hoops you need to go through to get funded by the Government or the ABC
political correctness aside, well yeah, it's taxpayer money, not your personal piggybank
the gov shouldn't fund people's hobbies
if the gov funds the arts, it will be politically correct, no way round it

>>713070736
Based, now we just need the faggots who moved up from sydney and pozborne to move to perth.

>>713070864
Why do Aussies love AFL and NRL

>>713070892
yeeeah, kick the bloody ball

>>713070379
Probably but Sydney is the Marti Gras capital of the country and there's pride parades in every major city when fag month is going

>>713070874
>it's the whole cost of living/housing here that sucks all your money away, so you can't spend time making anything

qrd? how bad is the cost of living

>>713070402
smoking meth and digging stuff up to sell to china.

>>713070995
Rent/mortgages are easily 60%+ of your income for the average joe and you'll be paying for a shithole or be in a shithole suburb

>>713070327
I dunno we're gonna fix this country. Maybe everything needs to deteriorate to Mad Max level for some positive change to come out of it.

>>713070995
I pay 500 dollaridoos in rent per WEEK, and that's cheap for my area.

>>713069308
nobody realised the economy here would stay shit for so long where housing basically strangled the rest of the economy

>>713069356
there are countries smaller than AU with far better games under their belt

>>713069471
>No one knows why it never recovered
because it costs too much to do anything like that here, you can make the same game anywhere else in the world for 50% cheaper because their wages don't have to constantly chase ridiculous rent/house/energy prices like here
same reason no films are made here, until the cost of production is cheaper than america/canada/etc
we only had a brief period in the early 2000s when stuff was actually filming stuff here like the matrix and starwars prequels because it was affordable

>>713071081
Everyone knows deep down what has to be done, it's just that it's illegal to actually say it.

>>713070529
>they are pretty cute ngl
Seek help

>>713071102
stop contributing, stop paying taxes

>>713069682
yes

>>713070168
>also good luck ever getting a loan for a business here
most businesses go belly up within 5 years, so it's fine that banks don't want to load up on losses

what I want to know is how all these shitty ideas got funded, I wouldn't give 1c to 98% of these things, how did they manage to get the money?!
https://sydney.startups-list.com/

>>713071102
>per WEEK

Why not per month

>>713071232
>Just go homeless
Wow, incredible option

>>713071270
Because it looks better than 2k per month for a 1 bedroom shithole

>>713071270
in australia its always billed per week

>>713071270
Because getting hit with an entire month's worth of rent her would run well into the thousands, also worth noting that rent doesn't include utilities, you still pay those yourself. Rent is merely for the privilege of having a roof over your head.

>>713070569
>Our TV is absolutely dogshit
used to be decent in the 90s

>Some decent music but that's about it
like what man?

>>713070995
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-06/median-rent-record-high-corelogic/103809092

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TUVXfM1nqo

our cities are always in the top most unaffordable cities in the world

>>713071360
>also worth noting that rent doesn't include utilities
doesn't this depend on who your landlord is?