FINALLY
If you live in Australia and play video games you probably visit the Australian Classification Board website occasionally. You do this because a) you want to make sure a new game isn't banned, and b) to see if the notoriously leaky website has revealed, say, Half-Life 3. As for the former, many will remember the rage back in 2010 when the Office of Film and Literature Classification denied Left 4 Dead 2 classification in Australia, which forced Valve to release a censored version in that region. The censored version sucked, to put it kindly.

That was back when there was no R18+ classification in Australia. Since the new category rolled out at the beginning of 2013 things have started to improve, though both Saints Row 4 and South Park: The Stick of Truth were altered in Australia last year to protect our sensitive little souls, incapable as we are of distinguishing between video games and real life.

The upside is that Valve, for some reason, has resubmitted the full uncensored version of Left 4 Dead 2 to the board, and it has passed with an R18+ rating. Most PC gamers will have acquired the full version through other channels anyway, but for what it's worth: you can now play the full, uncensored version of Left 4 Dead 2 in Australia without fear of retribution. Which is nice.

Whether this means Valve intends to reissue the game (either itself or through its then-publisher Electronic Arts), we don't know. But it's a nice gesture nonetheless. You can now indulge in gratuitous zombie dismemberment without fear of reprisal.
Woohoo! FINALLY isnt this great guys! But not good enough, Saints Row IV needs to be uncensored next :P:P but anyway this is awesome!

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wait, i checked steam and left 4 dead 2 is still its 'low violence version.' WTF???

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Give it some time.

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this. months will pass...
but i live in Germany and i doubt that they put the uncensored Version out here ever

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i dont have any time to give, im too poor

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lol ^^

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Cool, thanks for the update.

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Great news!

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here you go mate gives shampoo

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You need quotation marks. I was impressed by your sudden improvement in vocabulary, grammar and writing in general, until I realized it was probably a copypasta from the article. I am disappoint.

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