Australia reverses DayZ ban after game changes

An Australian regulatory body has reversed the ban on the zombie survival game DayZ. That probably has to do with adjustments that Bohemia Interactive has made.

The Australian department of Kotaku has published a screenshot showing that the approval authority has provided the game with classification. It can also be seen that it is a modified, modified version of DayZ. It is not stated exactly what has been changed, but it turned out earlier that the authority mainly focused on the use of cannabis in the game.

Weed was only in an experimental version of the game, which was not yet live. The drug could be used by players to restore the health of their character and thus, in the eyes of the judging authority, the game probably got too much into the water of encouraging drug use. This addition of weed will probably be off the rails by now.

The Classification Board has now provided DayZ with an MA15+ label. That means there may be sex or drug use, which means that only people 15 years of age or older are allowed to play the game; children under the age of 15 must be accompanied by an adult.

Previously, the agency refused to age the physical version of DayZ, effectively refusing to allow that version to enter the Australian market. The digital version has been available since 2013, also in Australia. However, it soon became apparent that the objections also affected the digital version, which was subsequently removed from the Australian Xbox and PlayStation online store. The game is now available again in the Australian Xbox store, but the title is still not available in the PlayStation Store.