Re: [android-developers] Re: Have an extra $800 lying around for a mobile ESRB rating? Didn't think so.

2011/11/27 Kostya Vasilyev <kmansoft@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. The Market app has a setting to filter
> content based on this rating.

This is a bit different from ESRB though - this (I believe) is set by
the developer and nobody really checks if the rating matches the
product.

I suspect this will be generally considered inadequate once the first
bigger controversy comes up. Even ESRB is often criticised for not
doing their job properly although they have testers who actually play
the games.

> As for it being required by Google - there is no official announcement is
> there?

Not that I know of - this is a mostly speculative debate I guess.

> Besides, which rating system? Europe has its own, PEGI:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEGI

ESRB if you want to sell in the U.S., PEGI if you want to sell in
Europe etc. I imagine if you get ESRB but no PEGI you'll be presented
as rated in the U.S. but Europeans will still see you as unrated.

It will probably take some time before it gets this far though.

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