I was posting on another rating related blog when I decided to start my own to go in-depth with my theories.
Allot of you believe we will never see an AO rated game in our local retailer because of various reasons that include, parents won’t shop there anymore, stock holders, companies getting bad rep, blah blah blah. Well I don’t agree If you take the history of gaming content, Violence, Sexually themes and Language and put it on a graph you would see that there is a line sloping up at a constant rate. With that said why would any of you think the line is done and ready to go flat? Every year there is more adult content in games but yet some of you are brainwashed into thinking we hit a peak? But regardless…
the next biggest thing that is always overlooked is User Created Content. If you can make whatever you want, paint it however you like and mold your creation for the world to see, then you have just been introduced to the secret back door that AO rated content can sneak into.
This isn’t an easy situation because you will have publishers, service providers and developers all trying in some way or another to maintain order and try to enforce guidelines. This is extremely hard because you have free speech, the rules/guidelines that come with the software and trying to monitor the whole situation to contend with. If someone buys a user created content game but makes something offensive that wasn’t in the rules/guidelines and looses his privilege to play what he paid for then his rights have been violated.
Just think about it, there’s always something that offends someone. I believe that this will be the backdoor that allows AO content in and all while coming from the store with just a Mature rating.
DON’t TELL ME THEY WON’T EVER ALLOW THIS!!! Because it happens almost every time you play UNO on Xbox live arcade. You know what im talking about…AO content is already on the 360 every minute of the day! Ohhh and please remind me what rating UNO has…ohhh yeah it’s sold as a “E” for everyone…..lol lol and more lol. AO is just around the corner if not on your console this minute!
Every online-enabled game has a disclaimer near the rating that says "game experience may change with online play." So technically, they've got their bases covered. They just can't outright release an AO related gmae.
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Every online-enabled game has a disclaimer near the rating that says "game experience may change with online play." So technically, they've got their bases covered. They just can't outright release an AO related gmae.
Hmmm.
There is an ESRB disclaimer that indicates that the experience may change when the user plays online... so I guess that's a backdoor.
True and this state of gameplay is just begun to evolve for better of for worse.
So many backdoor jokes running through my mind right now.
Will a unicorn be coming in through the backdoor? Cuz that would suck.
lol!