Fallout 3  has had a rough go of it when it comes to ratings classifications, and until recently the game was outright banned in Australia for drug references. Bethesda removed the offending language, and has decided to take the issue one step further by changing the game’s content in all regions.

According to reports, Bethesda has moved all reference to actual drugs from all regional versions, and has replaced them with them with fictional versions. Here’s the full statement from Pete Hines:

"An issue was raised concerning references to real-world, proscribed drugs in the game, and we subsequently removed those references and replaced them with fictional names. To avoid confusion among people in different territories, we decided to make those substitutions in all versions of the game, in all territories."

I’m not sure whether to feel outraged that some stuffed shirts got the content of a game changed and thereby stifled creativity, or that this is such a minor detail in the overall game that I really don’t care. No matter what the names are, there’s still (the potential for) drug use in Fallout, so this whole issue seems to simply boil down to the question of what’s in a name? Anyone out there outraged by this, or does your world keep on turning regardless?