More than 200 games will be banned from selling on app stores like Google Play

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A new computer game introduced by the Australian governmentRatingOver 200 games handled by Google Play, Firefox Marketplace, etc. are certified as "inappropriate" by the system and ban on sales in Australia.

Australian government bans hundreds of mobile and Web-based games | Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/06/australian-government-bans-hundreds-of-mobile-and-web-based-games/


In Australia, for the purpose of "Protecting youth from harmful information", the government established the ethics reviewing agency of movies and computer games "Australia Grading Review Board(ACB) "judges the content, and establishes" rating "which is the frame of age restriction that can be purchased, lent and appreciated. ACB is JapaneseComputer Entertainment Rating OrganizationAlthough it is an institution like (CERO), the examination criteria are known for being very strict. In such Australia, a system to censor game games more efficiently and censor more game titles than before was introduced experimentally.

What was introducedInternational Age Rating Coalition(IARC) computer game rating system, the introductionAnnouncementWhat was done in March 2015, the Government of Australia for the purpose of introduction has said "to review the rating of hundreds of thousands of games delivered online."

IARC includes theEntertainment Software Rating Board(ESRB) and EuropeanPan European Game Information(PEGI), BrazilianClassInd,Germany'sUSKWe also participate in judging organizations of computer games from around the world, and this is where the new Australian ACB participated.

Australia, who joined IARC, has been using IARC's rating system since March. This system is intended to make rating suitable for country and region evaluation criteria for mobile games and online games. As a system, we first investigate game developers questionnaire to investigate whether the game includes elements such as "violence, crime, gender, gambling, discrimination, drugs". Based on this data and the age restriction of each country / region, automatic rating of individual games is set. In addition, IARC's rating can be set independently by each country / region after setting.


ABC coverageAccording to the Australian Department of Justice's decision to introduce IARC's rating system, ACB has checked over 150,000 game titles, and 260 games will be banned in just 4 months " It is rated to RC. This number is more than five times the number (50) of games that ACB banned during the period from 1994 to 2014. Note that it was from July 1, 2015 that games that were forbidden to sell will actually disappear from the app store.

You can check the list of games that ACB certified as "RC" forbidding sale from the following page, which shows that many Japanese titles are included. ACB says, "IARC's system is useful for showing parents (what kind of games they are playing) towards their parents rather than towards the players themselves. On the official website of ACB it is not written in detail until the reason that hundreds of games were certified as "RC". However, if you search the titles of "RC" certified games, you can quickly understand what kind of games are prohibited from selling.

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However, if you check the "RC" listPinpointYaPop pet,Japan beautiful puzzleThere are unknown reasons why sales became banned, and other applications that do not receive tough rating in other countries. Also, Ars Technica in Australia in the pastFallout 3YaAlien VS PredatorWe have set the rating of popular games such as "RC" such as something, and point out the ambiguity of rating standards.

Currently, as a major online app storeGoogle PlayAnd Firefox Marketplace are adopting the rating system of IARC, but experts say that Microsoft's Xbox Live, Nintendo's eShop, and Sony's PlayStation Store will also be in close proximity.

In addition, the IARC rating system will decide whether the Australian Government officially adopts the system as a computer game rating system after 12 months of trial run.