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The Australian Classification Board has now rated the modified version of DayZ as a MA15+, after developer Bohemia Interactive removed the marijuana joint inventory item that would restore players’ health (via Kotaku Australia).
Last week, Five Star Games — DayZ’s physical sales distributor — applied for a release, which meant that the ACB reviewed the physical game’s content and rate it as per its own guidelines. It was discovered that a feature in the physical version would let players heal up using a marijuana joint, and the Classification Board wasn’t a fan of that. DayZ was argued to ‘depict, express or otherwise deal with matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or abhorrent phenomena in such a way that they offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults to the extent that they should not be classified.’ Zoinks.
Bohemia Interactive elected to modify the worldwide version of DayZ in order to align with the Board’s requirements, and so that Australian players wouldn’t be excluded. We weren’t sure what would be changed and how long that would take, but now, Kotaku Australia has spotted that the Classification Board site was updated. A ‘modified’ DayZ is now officially deemed fit for physical and digital distribution in Australia, and it shows that drug use does not appear in the game.
At least there’s no such thing as bad publicity. DayZ is out now on Xbox One, PC, and PlayStation 4.
