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It's not about protection of minors, first & foremost. Second, Klei got literally 0 porn games. Third, it's still up to parents to take care of their children. No-body is obliged, morally nor legally, to let their child onto the internet unsupervised. Parents doing that are the problem, not the lack of banners.
love to have this discussion, but I dont feel like doing it twice paralell, so here is the link if someone is interested.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1084600/discussions/0/4351121256518487173/?ctp=3
Besides, "porn games" are just a very minor part of what is unappropriate or unhealthy for minors and at least in the country I`m from it is not just the parents that can get into trouble for making products (including media) available to minors. It can lead to fines of up to 50.000€. You sell alcohol or an unappropriat game to a minor, you can get fined. You let a minor into a movie that isn`t age appropriat you can get fined. etc.etc. It`s quiet clear that society as a whole here is meant to secure the safety of minors. The problem is not just the parents, it`s people that are aware of a problem and ignoring it for either convinience or a lack of believe in self-efficacy.
Which leads me back to the question. Why isn`t steam caring more about this. Even if not for moral reasons, simply for economic ones. Because if this would be made more aware it probably would lead to a lot of critique. Same goes for publishers. (KLEI was just an example because they are on the forfront of the steamshop page right now and I would have betted they would have age ratings, but haven`t)
Can you name a region where rating on PC for a digital product is mandatory?
Now, while I wait for that answer, I will also point another thing that will further confound matters. Depending on interpretation of related stipulations, it could be argued that in one region, Valve are setting themselves up for additional trouble by DISPLAYING certain age ratings that have not actually been received by products. You see, Valve don't actually check. They don't ensure that a rating attached to a title has been appropriately obtained.
In fact, certain ratings have been pulled from several Store pages on Steam in my region on at least one occasion when the related ratings board complained very vocally about how a publisher was "lying" to customers by displaying their age rating on a store page without the game being rated by them. (We'll ignore the fact, for now, that that rating board shouldn't be rating PC games and Valve shouldn't be using them as a rating board -- which is why things didn't go further). But if they were the correct rating board, then Valve would be breaching certain laws by allowing the purchasing of titles displaying that rating with any form of payment other than a credit card.
The point of that tangent is that rating aren't an easy subject with one answer. And when it comes to "age-gates" on a product page, they aren't there to protect children. They are there so that when a legal guardian tries to launch legal action, the store can turn around and tell them their child lied.
The euCONSENT project is trying to find a way to create a reasonable way to deal with this, while International Age Rating Coalition tries to streamline the process of getting age ratings.
That is an argument that was had in the other forum aswell, but I disagree and so did others. Age ratings help parents to more easily decide which content is probably safe for their children, and which isn`t. So it is a tool, at least for parents who care, to protect their children.
Well, that sounds pretty illegal to me, so by incorporating paragraphs into the general steam contracts with companies, valve would not only be able to not be held accountable in such circumstances, but they could also invoke legal actions against the publishers themselfs. Combines with fines in the paragraphs, it would probably be a pretty good tool to stop publishers from doing that.
Apparently the ESRB can't: https://www.esrb.org/ratings/10031495/dont-starve-together-console-edition/
It's against the rules to sign up for a Steam account if you aren't at least thirteen years old. Everyone on Steam is at least a teenager.
If games on Steam needed age gates if they were rated as safe for teenagers, every game on Steam would have an age gate, thus defeating the point of age gating.
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is this about parents and guardians being irresponsible and thinking steam
have to care about parenting other peoples children...
None of the games made or published by Klei are unhealthy for minors. My 13 year old plays a few of them.
Around here, it's almost mandatory. They didn't outright say so, but if it's "not rated" then it's treated like FSK-18, and there are a lot of annoying obstacles around FSK-18 stuff.
blizzard is the poster child for how companies actually behave. 80% of their player base is white stright males according to blizzard. trans are less then 1% and lgbt are like 1% agian according to blizzards own self published bs. women where 17ish% and most of those are either wow players or e thots streamers.
do not let people gas light you especially when these companies out themselves eventually 100% of the time about their own lies.
I think you mean USK. FSK is only for movies/shows, USK is for games.