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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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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You need Steam and the store shelves still if your goal is to make millions of dollars, but if that's your goal then you already have a built in limit on how offensive you even want to get, the real ratings board is the market
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Plutoburns and
Yeah. Unlike in movies where filmmakers want to avoid an R, a lot of games just go out with an M expectation. Almost a badge of honor. AO used to be the kiss of death, but with steam, et. al. not even that matters.
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It's gone back and forth in movies, a lot of movies back in the day intentionally went for R to avoid getting pegged as a "family film", but the pendulum may have swung around on that as the demographics of who even goes to see movies in theaters changes
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Plutoburns and
And depending on how hard theaters are carding at the time. I routinely bought tickets to R rated movies at 15-16 in the 90s. No one cared provided they could plausibly think you were 17. In the early aughts that changed.
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