/v/ - Video Games

>>13803070

>Oy vey goyim, you can't take our market-shares anyway you like

>Oy vey, you better get license for burning files onto discs and sell them to people because we say so.

And now, indie-developers will learn why the movie-industry, the music-industry, the book-industry and the school-book-industry is a monopoly owned and run by kikes and there's not much you can do about it if you were to play their game.

>>13803070

go shill your channel elsewhere faggot

>>13803070

>I wonder how many nice dinners EA and Activision bought them

Go look up what companies made and fund them

>>13803122

Not my channel fuckstick, I'm an indie that follows a few channels and just learned about this shit. We've had to scrap our physical PS4 edition concepts for our game as a result.

>>13803135

Already gotchu

refresh

>>13803182

NO! YT IS TOO MAINSTREAM! I DON'T LIKE IT AT ALL!! STOP SHILLING MAINSTREAM SITES!!!

>>13803135

>>13803153

>hooknosetube IP harvester

Just use youtube-dl you faggots.

>>13803210

>using local programs that don't harvest IPs and don't get virally marketed instead of some faggot's website that is both is /oven/

>>>/reddit/

>>13803135

>hooktube

>not jewtube

Mark, it rhymes.

>>13803210

I don't know, with that kind of attitude I'm not sure if I want to tell you our studio name now. You seem kind of super autistic and angry over nothing.

>>13803187

>Could this be overturned?

It's not a law. The ESRB is a private ratings board, one that has a strangle hold on the industry.

The question is

How do we fuck over the ESRB?

>>13803284

Is it possible for us to develop our own ratings board?

>>13803394

As far as I'm aware it mostly has to do with some arcane standards dating back to the 90's and retail customs. Theoretically the ESRB is more a set of guidelines than actual enforceable legal code.

>but suddenly they need to slap Indies with a $3,000 fee to make physical copies of their products

So can't you just market it as a "software product for entertainment purposes only"? You don't need their blessing to eg kickstart a game and buy boxes and print CDs and mail them to people do you? It's only for retail?

>>13803511

Last I checked that still falls under the bounds of a retail transaction.

>>13803808

No, that's only if you want their rating. Right? I mean, it would be crazy if they had that kind of strangle hold on any industry.

>>13804570

As is explained by OP's video (which is good, because I was curious about this), the ESRB rating is NOT legally required in any way. Indie game developers are free to make and sell their games in any way they want without having to give a single shekel to the ESRB, and many do (through their own websites, or other services like DLsite.)

However, if you want to get into the "big time" and be sold in EB Games or other such retail stores, an ESRB rating is required. Not because of law, but because of the store's policies - which probably isn't so much a corrupt deal between them and the ESRB so much as it is the stores want someone else to take the liability over age ratings, and the ESRB are the only ones offering that service.

TLDR - this screws small publishers not because an ESRB rating is legally required (it isn't), but because EB/Gamestop and Steam demand one.