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What regulations are those? Netflix has Minecraft Story Mode now https://www.netflix.com/title/80227995 https://www.netflix.com/title/80227995 . What regulation

What regulations are those? Netflix has Minecraft Story Mode now https://www.netflix.com/title/80227995 https://www.netflix.com/title/80227995 . What regulations are being applied, and how are those incompatible with video games? Also aren't movie rating systems like the MPA self-regulated? Not required by law. There's already equivalent systems for video games with PEGI and ESRB.

zinekeller 6y ago
The American MPA is self-regulated (probably simply to put it into legal territory, since legislating it would probably prevent freedom of expression and translates to censorship, especially if the authority is directly government-controlled) but some other systems are legislated (not just in countries you think as opressive, mind you: Britain has an independent organization that rates movies but are approved by the government). Still a bit flawed though: I thought that there is already a ratings board in America for software?
- ThatPlayer 6y ago
  Yeah. I don't think there's been any authority that Netflix has submitted all their films to, to be on Apple's devices. Why should Microsoft's Game Pass be any different.
threeseed 6y ago
You understand that there is more to the world than the US. Every country has regulations for music/movies/TV. US and a handful of other countries have them for games and I am not aware of any for apps.
- ThatPlayer 6y ago
  That's why I'm asking what regulations are there? I'm not claiming they don't exist. If something like Minecraft Story Mode is a movie on Netflix, what movie ratings does it have? For example, I can find it on ESRB's website rating, but it's not like it's on MPA's https://www.filmratings.com/ https://www.filmratings.com/ https://www.esrb.org/ratings/34178/Minecraft%3A+Story+Mode+-+A+Telltale+Games+Series/ https://www.esrb.org/ratings/34178/Minecraft%3A+Story+Mode+-... Meanwhile Netflix's own Bandersnatch is not ESRB rated, and isn't too different as a game. Yet Apple has supported both of these perfectly fine regardless of their lack of proper ratings.

zinekeller 6y ago

The American MPA is self-regulated (probably simply to put it into legal territory, since legislating it would probably prevent freedom of expression and translates to censorship, especially if the authority is directly government-controlled) but some other systems are legislated (not just in countries you think as opressive, mind you: Britain has an independent organization that rates movies but are approved by the government). Still a bit flawed though: I thought that there is already a ratings board in America for software?

ThatPlayer 6y ago
Yeah. I don't think there's been any authority that Netflix has submitted all their films to, to be on Apple's devices. Why should Microsoft's Game Pass be any different.

threeseed 6y ago

You understand that there is more to the world than the US. Every country has regulations for music/movies/TV. US and a handful of other countries have them for games and I am not aware of any for apps.

ThatPlayer 6y ago
That's why I'm asking what regulations are there? I'm not claiming they don't exist. If something like Minecraft Story Mode is a movie on Netflix, what movie ratings does it have? For example, I can find it on ESRB's website rating, but it's not like it's on MPA's https://www.filmratings.com/ https://www.filmratings.com/ https://www.esrb.org/ratings/34178/Minecraft%3A+Story+Mode+-+A+Telltale+Games+Series/ https://www.esrb.org/ratings/34178/Minecraft%3A+Story+Mode+-... Meanwhile Netflix's own Bandersnatch is not ESRB rated, and isn't too different as a game. Yet Apple has supported both of these perfectly fine regardless of their lack of proper ratings.