No Adult Games on Windows 8 Marketplace

A post on Critical Detail takes a critical look at the closed distribution model in Windows 8 and Windows RT, speculating about how this will impact software distribution over the next 20 years. As noted on Kotaku, this includes a rule against selling adult content through the Windows 8 Marketplace, saying: "Your app must not contain adult content, and metadata must be appropriate for everyone. Apps with a rating over PEGI 16, ESRB MATURE, or that contain content that would warrant such a rating, are not allowed." While this will not impact U.S. users much since almost no games are ever rated "AO," there are lots of games with a PEGI-18 rating in Europe this will prohibit. There are a number of reasons this will not impact hardcore gamers in the short term, as they are unlikely to be rushing to adopt the new Windows, unlikely to make a tablet their primary gaming machine, and unlikely to make the Microsoft walled garden the place they buy their games, but the trend this represents is certainly troubling. Update: Corrected to be clear the rule will prohibit AO games in North America, not "M" rated games. Apologies for the confusion.
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Closed Betas wrote on Oct 11, 2012, 18:37:
HorrorScope wrote on Oct 11, 2012, 18:12:
Closed Betas wrote on Oct 11, 2012, 18:09:
Here comes communism.... Now we are being dictated what we can use on our computers...

As I said... Slippery Slope hysteria. Now we are at communism.

I'm sorry you sit at home and play with your putz all day, but I'm out there in the industry watching every manufacturer monopolize with distributors in the world to control and force feed consumers.

Oh shut the hell up. We all know these things, it's dime a dozen in the thought processing dept, you don't have some amazing insight. What in gods name makes you think I don't work in the real big-boy world? You are posting on a gaming site as well don't forget, POT.

I just like how a Marketplace on Win 8 draws instant hysteria and then we just go straight to endgame and the communism card is played. Good thing most don't have access to the "Big Red Button" ya know? How about we really see where this goes before we panic too much? Face it MS has a real hard time right now making any major new standard. MS wants to me more like Apple, sure that is what investors want to hear. Here is the problem, those that buy Apple products are not looking for MS products no matter how much they try and copy, MS is out for the Apple buyer for the vast majority, that ship sailed a loong time ago. And those that don't want Apple products or their ways won't be supporting those that do. So MS will just fail another time. Trying to become something no one wants them for.
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