In one there is a very real criticism to be made of the censoring that is done by ESRB and how it affects foreign (specifically Japanese) localization for the NA market whereas in the other you can only make suppositions based on shoddy evidence. One specifically cites censorship as a cause, whereas the other can only vaguely be connected to some imagined agenda if you take the word of a second party and an unauthorized employee communicating on facebook which was then deleted and disavowed as official company reasoning. You are attempting to conflate two situations which are only superficially similar so far as any of us know two Japanese game makers have decided not too release games in the NA market, as well as presumably the EU market as well as basically all other foreign markets, but the explicit reasoning given are different. You'll notice I didn't actually specify government regulation, because I already knew that neither the ESRB nor the MPAA were actually government bodies but that doesn't make what they do any less censorship it only makes it voluntary industry organized censorship. *Japan, the US/Canada/Mexico (ESRB), Europe (PEGI), and most other countries follow this trade organization model.Ĭlick to shrink.Censorship is about restricting what can and cannot be present in the media (in this case no the media as in 'news organizations' but media in the sense of the products that video game companies produce), it doesn't actually matter if it's done by governments or some other body, it's still censorship and fundamentally different than criticism in the media. So I'm sorry, but your post comes off as being completely ignorant of the dynamics associated with this situation. That becomes something of a problem when people actually take these media outlets seriously. Incidentally from News Outlets that politically bias Left. Including a noteworthy short where they intentionally blocked the Ammo Counter with the NBC logo, and pointed at it claiming it was a Score readout that incentivized players to kill.įor anyone who thinks that's unique, some more examples from actual news feeds within the past few years: Note: Katie Couric was among those who pushed basically the same thing with DooM back in the 90s on NBC. The associated outrages the trade organizations tend to be concerned about being things that historically have been driven by the media, even when untrue. This trade organization solution was developed as a compromise associated with those expressing concerns over various content, which helped to address concerns while avoiding governmental intervention. Nor or is there one in most other countries.* There is no governmental regulatory body in the US of the type you're describing. Click to shrink.How so? The ESRB and MPAA rating boards are both trade organizations.
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