Hotline Miami 2: Fallacious Quantity was on the centre of some controversies when it launched practically a decade in the past. But in some way all these years later, the sport continues to be inflicting issues, at the very least for Australians.
Sony has despatched out Emails to folks (because of ResetEra’s Bishop 89 for grabbing a screenshot) telling them that the sport “has not obtained a correct ranking from the Australian Classification board” and so they have due to this fact “taken steps to take away the product from clients who’ve obtained the sport by PlayStation Plus.”
Certain sufficient, a fast search of the Aussie PlayStation retailer reveals nothing. It has been wiped from existence. Anyone checking the sport of their sport library studies discovering a lock image.
Hotline Miami 2 was notably not obtainable for Australia when it launched as a result of the Australian certification board wouldn’t grant it a ranking, basically banning the sport.
Nonetheless, in 2019 the sport appeared as a part of a Swap assortment alongside the unique Hotline Miami. That model was shortly pulled down, although.
However followers have been hopeful the whole lot had lastly be sorted out when Hotline 2 popped up in Australia 12 months in the past. Through PS Plus, hopeful clients might get it individually or as a part of the Hotline Miami Assortment.
It’s presently unclear how or why it has taken a whole 12 months for this concern to return to mild and for the sport to be eliminated. One way or the other it appears to have slipped by PlayStation’s cracks, although the writer should even be held accountable as they will need to have been conscious it wasn’t correctly rated and but was nonetheless obtainable. It’s attainable they could face some authorized repercussions. Presumably, they should cough up the money to refund everybody who purchased the sport.
