[casual_games] Slow death for the current generation ofcasualgames? (Bugs, Parental Controls & Game Explorer)

[Christopher Natsuume]

I just wonder about the whole world of shareware aps - and how they will
respond to this. Not just casual games, but little programs like the thing
that adds international clocks to my toolbar, or the little freeware ap I
use to bulk-transform WAV files to MP3s - I mean, my computer doesn't know a
game from a spreadsheet plugin - they are all .exe files as far as my
computer knows, no?

It can't be that setting that one setting will void all of that freeware -
it would generate a mountain of "bugs" for MSFT to deal with as a million
programs suddenly don't work... This just can't be right.

What am I missing?
Cn



-----Original Message-----
From: casual_games-bounces at igda.org [mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org]
On Behalf Of Adam Martin
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 5:31 AM
To: IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List
Subject: Re: [casual_games] Slow death for the current generation
ofcasualgames? (Bugs, Parental Controls & Game Explorer)

On 19/12/06, Allen Partridge <allen.partridge at iup.edu> wrote:

> Another possibility is to develop a CGRB - perhaps working with an


I see what you're saying, but I don't think there's any mileage in
adding yet another ratings system. These things are exclusive animals:
the more you have, the less valuable and effective each one is.

I would hope there is simply an option to have "unrated" games that
appear in their own category, and only get disappeared if a parent
chooses to disappear them. Frankly, all application software is
"unrated", so its somewhat ridiculous to "disappear" one small
category of that (although I can think of many good business reasons
they pretty much all come down to being leant on by bigger fish or
assuaging company political issues, or even assuaging lobbyist groups,
which IMHO is a very poor reason in the absolute sense, albeit an
extremely good reason in the
making-profit-and-not-getting-too-much-lobby-and-govt-attention sense)

Adam
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