[casual_games] If Vista is going to be such a problem...

[Allen Partridge]

The ESRB is an industry generated entity designed to pre-empt legislative
restrictions and oversight. The industry it monitors is 'hard core games' -
we'll skip the debate over the term for now. The Casual Games Association
and / or the IGDA Casual Games Sig or any established and 'known' industry
representative group could easily create a parallel group that may operate
based on it's own rules (and fees) and which Microsoft would have to treat
the same as the ESRB (as would the federal government etc.) 

 

We do everything else separately, why not accept the differences and impose
our own regulatory agency rather than subject ourselves to one that is rife
with problems.

 

It also would distance us from those 'violent' mainstream games, give us a
shot at free publicity, embed our reputation as 'safe games' and provide big
time news coverage - leading to more stories about portals etc in major news
outlets and overall could be a boon to the industry.

 

--Allen

 

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From: casual_games-bounces at igda.org [mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org]
On Behalf Of Robert Headley
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 1:24 AM
To: IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List
Subject: Re: [casual_games] If Vista is going to be such a problem...

 

wasn't the ESRB actually required to play the games, after the hot coffee
debacle? Ah, my bad, but it was proposed by Senator Brownback

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_in_Video_Game_Rating_Act 

Also, I don't know that the ESRB is willing to risk allowing 3rd party
certifiers with so many politicians out to get them.

On 12/22/06, Joe Pantuso <jpantuso at traygames.com> wrote:

ESRB doesn't actually load up and test anything.  You submit a video tape of
gameplay to them.  And ESRB charges you $400 to $2500 for the pleasure of
viewing the tape, what's the hourly rate on that?  Their business model is
very simple, and there is no incentive whatsoever for them to make it any
cheaper or easier for us to pay that protection, er, I mean ratings fee. 

 

The news that we may be able to get casual games treated at the $400 rate is
a good start.  I'd like to see $250, especially as the 'gameplay' video for
Chess, for example, is going to pretty damn short and sweet. 

 

 


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