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ESRB ratings-bots come to life this week

Posted May 12, 2011 at 12:46AM EST by Mabie A.

Listed in: News Tags: ESRB
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As you may all know by now, the US ratings board, ESRB, has come up with a system that should expedite their process of rating games, particularly the digital downloads.

 

 

To deal with the problem of games coming in droves for ratings for the App Store, Android Marketplace, XBL Marketplace, PlayStation Store and WiiWare, they deviced a scheme that would allow computers to do the ratings for them. In an effort to minimize effort while maintaining effectivity, games for these platforms will be rated according to a very detailed questionnaire to be answered by the publisher.

 

 

esrb_andersons_lgApplicants are required to divulge every thing about the game, or else suffer a fine if the board discovers that they weren't very forthcoming about their answers. Explained ESRB spokesperson Patricia Vance, "If you look at what we have constructed here, it's scalable to address whatever volume you want. It's low cost and it is very effective. I think there is no question that mobile devices are a very important part of the pie."

 

 

Of course, some people have been wary about the system, mostly because computers are going to be very black and white in their assessment of the game's content. But if all goes well, and we shall soon see as soon as the system goes live this week, we just might see this adopted for full retail games as well. Besides, it's not like they're actually playing the whole games in the current system they have.

 

 

 

 

Via [VG247]

 

 



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# RE: ESRB ratings-bots come to life this weekMabie A. 2011-05-12 02:06
do you have high hopes for this new system?

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# RE: ESRB ratings-bots come to life this weekDruidium 2011-05-12 09:36
Only time will tell but I don't trust the new rating system. Thankfully I'm an adult so unless they ban the game from the country it don't really matter what they say, I can still buy the game if I want too.

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# RE: ESRB ratings-bots come to life this weekAnimegame97 2011-05-12 10:14
Are there really that mant games that come out so fast to need this?

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# wow lazy!Souls 2011-05-12 10:52
Basically it seems what they did is throw the work on the publishers to rate thier own games and threaten them with a fine if they put incorrect information.

Aka ESRB doesn't have to do an ounce of work...

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# RE: ESRB ratings-bots come to life this weekNarutosDeath 2011-05-12 12:25
Why does something tell me this is a bad idea. :sad:

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# ...xavis75211 2011-05-12 13:43
because the ESRB was a bad idea in the first place. it should have been a recommendation, not a mandatory age group.

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# RE: ESRB ratings-bots come to life this weekDruidium 2011-05-12 14:16
They did not throw all the work on the publishers, they got lazy and decided to just input all the information the developers give them into a computer. The computer does all the thinking and makes the decisions for them now.

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# RE: ESRB ratings-bots come to life this weekBut Fukir 2011-05-13 07:51
Yay, I love ratings.

They make it easier to go right past all the silly stuff to the unrated section!

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