ESRB Offers $1 Million Dollar Fines |
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ESRB president Patricia Vance (pictured left) told the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection that "after a game ships, if disclosure [of content in the game] is found to have been incomplete, recent enhancements to the ESRB enforcement system will soon allow for the imposition of fines up to $1 million."Vance hopes that the newly implemented fines combined with the enormous cost of recalling the re-rated product will "serve as a tremendous disincentive for any publisher to even consider not disclosing all pertinent content." These efforts were created to prevent another Hot Coffee fiasco.
Not all people at the meeting agreed with what Vance had to say. Cliff Stearns, the hearing's chair, challenged the fact that the ESRB is mostly made up of game publishers, a case which Stearns calls a "conflict of interest." Stearns also went on further, complaining that the organization did not completely play through the games before giving them a rating. Vance tried to defend the arguments as best as she could.
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nocomment
that name's in vice cityGTA
Shes do-able :S
#3, don't earn yourself an 'M' rating!
Yeah, and those 1 million bucks will be used to "help" ppl feeling "offended" by the ingame stuff, HOW?! Just want more and more excuses to bring in extra taxes =)
Look if you remove the clothes on a WoW character it has a BRA and PANTIES! Omgz panic!
#3 u got bad taste she ugly as ***** lol
I'd hit it. Then charge her a cool Mil.
Isnt is the ESRB job to find stuff like that. Like oblivion. I would have thought this game would have been rated M but it seems like the people from the ESRB where lazy and missed stuff. So how can they fine a company 1 mill. for there wrong doing not the dev.
***** is Ugly man
what happens if the game company ignores the ESRB coplaint? i could be wrong but i don't think the ESRB is an actual government entity? Its like, hey i'm going to extort $1 MIL from you because I said so... I don't understand how companys beleive they have the right to demand funds based on their own biased beleif systems... Its as if they think they're an organized religion or something...
esrb rateings are volunterie so they could just release games without rateings. but then th Wal-o-Cost wouldnt carry them
I agree.. this wholeheartedly sounds like extortion to me ..a million dollars..get real.. and i dont get this damn country (America) Why have we became so damn violent ..but conservative?
It's about damn time we get these holy roller bastards out of our government positions,and has America became so freakin retarded that we need the government to tell parents what their kids should and shouldn't be playing?
Walmart not selling games with no Esrb rating is true alot of Devs tone down games just so Walmart will sell it.
Walmart quit selling Maxim and Fhm because they are a "family store".. but it's ok to sell Cosmo with titles like how to please yourself with a cucumber in 30 minutes or less..lol
really you can blame the moron that released the mod for hot coffee ooh wow i foundd a adult themes mini game lets make it public and see if anyone notices why do you think they kept it out ....so it wouldbt be an AO game then someone decided to dig in the code to find it and from what i hear that lil game is dumb and doesnt look that good to beguin so thanks alot for making something that wasnt worth discovering possible to give the game a AO and start the ball rolling....this is the country where we cant leave well enough alone
I didn't even read the article. My response to the ESRB in general. "Dear ESRB, I understand that you take Bob Barker's words with complete and utter trust and molding it into your own company policy, to have yourselves spade or neutered. I totally agree that your president probably has not, and will not, ever get laid, drunk, plastered, or any of the other ESRB descripters she made while crying about her deficiencies in the privacy of her own bathroom. Please accept my middle finger as a token of total mistrust in your dumb***** organization known as the Electronic Software Rating Board. Thank You. -Claude"