Bethesda caves rather than keep up the pressure

Some sad news out of Australia: Rather than encourage adult gamers to keep up the pressure on South Australia's game and freedom hating Attorney-General, Michael Atkinson, Bethesda Softworks is modifying Fallout 3 for Australia due to the lack of an 18+ rating in that country.

Given changes required to allow the first two Fallout games to be released in Australia caused gameplay issues and pissed off more than a few gamers out that way, I expect that even if sales aren't stupidly low, most gamers will likely be running pirated versions of the American release as Atkinson hasn't yet built the Great Firewall of Australia.

Given that it seems that New Zealand often ends up with Australian releases of games (I can't confirm this, but commenters from NZ give the impression this is the case) they'll be stuck with something decided by another government, not their own. If the NZ government is fine with the uncensored version of the game, they'll probably still end up with the censored version anyway. Isn't that stupid?

Here's a great idea from another commenter on GamePolitics, however: In censored games, show a message at the beginning, naming the politicians, other officials, and social conservatives responsible for forcing the creation of the censored edition. Put those people in the bad light they deserve to be in.