even before the majority of games pushed 20 hours, playing an 8 hour game for a content check is just waaaaaay too much
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the fuck else are they paid for
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the esrb was formed BY major game companies as a legal barrier to getting sued by mad parents. Its NOT the mpaa.
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Isn't that the MPAA too though?
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couldnt say but the mpaa is notoriously uncommunicative to studios about WHY they get a rating so i doesnt seem to be the same relationship
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Yeah. And it depends on how big you are with the MPAA. Indies get nothing. The bigger studios can complain.
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Replying to @markemer @Plutoburns and
You also have to consider that gaming doesn't really have an equivalent of theatrical distribution The beginning of home video greatly weakened the power ratings had over consumers, and games have always been only on "home video"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @markemer and
So like back in the day it was a big deal if your game couldn't be sold on store shelves, and even today Steam is very leery about AO or unrated games But edgy indie devs give a lot less of a shit If you just want people to see your indie project you don't really need Steam
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Replying to @arthur_affect @markemer and
The only reason Steam is leery is outright porn, and they actually more or less permit that now. Afaik steam will now sell anything that isn't illegal under US law
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @markemer and
Yeah interestingly for this reason games actually submitted with the intention of an AO rating aren't that rare, whereas movies that actually get rated NC-17 can be counted on your fingers "Art porn" films like Blue Is the Warmest Color
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(The reason they changed the X rating to NC-17 is that producers of actual porn just stole "X-rated" to mean porn and started putting "X", "XXX", etc up in porn theaters for movies that they obviously never bothered submitting for release in regular theaters)
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