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This is all just FUD rubbish.
Here is the reality: Google have absolutely no quality controls on the
Android Market worth speaking about. Google does not act - it reacts (when
presented with a take-down notice or a malware threat). Despite some
haphazard take down efforts, the market remains
There's nothing in writing from Google that games will not be promoted
on the marketplace without a rating just rumors. - but - there is no
other reason to suspect that the new rating system as it applies to
mobile phones would be different than the one for desktops and
consoles. Why would it?
Binxalot wrote:
There's nothing in writing from Google that games will not be promoted
So you have no evidence whatsoever.
on the marketplace without a rating just rumors. - but - there is no
other reason to suspect that the new rating system as it applies to
mobile phones would be
Binx,
I don't know if you've noticed this, but generally there's an
understanding in the industry that mobile titles don't yield the kind of
numbers that desktop titles do. Have a look at the pricing for various
third party tools and you'll find that they are asking far less money
for their
Evidence or not, what he's talking about is likely to happen in some
form. There are games for the Android platform, and some of them have
objectionable contents - not objectionable to me, perhaps not to you
but to a potentially significant part of buying public. Blood,
violence, the usual
In general, versions of the same game for different platforms can get
different ratings. I don't believe it happens often (Manhunt 2?) but
it does make the idea of reusing ratings look kind of dubious.
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Christopher Van Kirk
christopher.vank...@gmail.com wrote:
Android Market already has its own rating system:
https://www.google.com/support/androidmarket/developer/bin/answer.py?answer=188189
It's not the same as MSRB, and applies not only to games, but it's already
there, and has been for a long time. The Market app has a setting to filter
content
2011/11/27 Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com:
Android Market already has its own rating system:
https://www.google.com/support/androidmarket/developer/bin/answer.py?answer=188189
It's not the same as MSRB, and applies not only to games, but it's already
there, and has been for a long time.
I honestly think this is one of those cases where you have to just say
'we'll cross that bridge when we come to it,' and carry on doing
something else.
On 11/28/2011 4:20 AM, Latimerius wrote:
Evidence or not, what he's talking about is likely to happen in some
form. There are games for the
Sure, I'm just saying. :-)
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Christopher Van Kirk
christopher.vank...@gmail.com wrote:
I honestly think this is one of those cases where you have to just say
'we'll cross that bridge when we come to it,' and carry on doing something
else.
On 11/28/2011 4:20
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