No 18+ titles Adult Games on Windows 8’s Marketplace

Spets

2012-10-12 08:47

Should make Gabe Newell happy, but Microsoft should really rethink their position. Ratings are there for a reason, there's no need for Microsoft to be a nanny.

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Neo Cyrus

2012-10-12 09:07

I think Microsoft are actually trying to lose as many customers as possible. It would explain a lot.

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PCElite

2012-10-12 10:46

Well games are for kids. No ?

#4429590

Spets

2012-10-12 11:14

Well games are for kids. No ?

Games are for all ages these days. They were targetted for kids then we all grew up :P Now we like out 15-18+ violent games. @Hallyru, I think Neo could be right :P I hope they rethink this topic.

#4429609

Tat3

2012-10-12 11:54

But for other markets, it's a bit of a disaster. Europe especially. Here are some games that have, only recently, been awarded Europe's PEGI 18 rating, which under Microsoft's rules would mean they'd be excluded from the Windows 8 marketplace. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim The Witcher II Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Max Payne 3 The Walking Dead Sleeping Dogs Dishonored Mass Effect 2 Mass Effect 3 LA Noire Spec Ops: The Line Fallout: New Vegas Deus Ex Assassin's Creed: Revelations So, yeah, nearly all of the biggest and best games released in the past three years. Good thinking there, Microsoft.

Those games which arent there are old and people who were looking to buy those have already bought their copies or they will think about buying when those are at 75% discount from Steam. I honestly cant see a reason why there should be 50 different online publishers which sell the same games for the same price. It's not like that Marketplace really kicked off at any point so they arent actually losing any customers. Make that Windows Marketplace for applications mostly ? That could work. Or perhaps just open that Marketplace and let your kid pick up what he likes because there arent anything which he wants (18+ games) which he now cant play. I also can think about one possible scenario if they offered 18+ games there. Steam, Origin, D2D and whatever are there would sue them because they brought that system with W8 and now they would have monopoly for offering stuff which people want for same price as Steam and so. Games losing some W8 specific features ? Yah, that is going to be the reason why some big AAA games are going to fail, blaming piracy is getting old so good to have something new to blame other than the developers.

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lucidus

2012-10-12 12:55

They can stuff their awful marketplace where the sun doesn't shine. Apple does the App Store right, MS is third rate yet again. I can imagine Ballmer playing Bad Piggies on his 80" surface!

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lucidus

2012-10-12 14:35

Great we can't comment on the course MS is taking simply because we are not willing to use one of their upcoming products? Lighten up.

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Brasky

2012-10-12 14:57

It's not Microsoft, it's your respective countries rating system who is to blame.

#4429832

CronoGraal

2012-10-12 17:33

Not one of you would buy from the Windows Store anyway, so why do you care? Further, most of you have expressed that you will never use Windows 8 anyway.

Please don't tell me you're actually defending this decision.

#4429849

DLD

2012-10-12 18:04

Whenever I come upon such nonsense I say to myself: "Well, well, isn't it just like micro$oft...!" The other day, a colleague of mine (we are both employed, on a part-time basis as technicians at a small company where we maintain the video-surveillance system) told me, complaining of some people from administration: "It's incredibly illogical (since these people did this-and-that) - makes one think they work for micro$oft''. I was completely amazed so I replayed: "Oh, c'mmon, they can't be THAT stupid!"...

#4429887

Elder III

2012-10-12 19:19

I could see this making some major titles get last minute edits to cut back the violence or $ex to make it into the Windows marketplace... as much for publicity as anything else, but that's merely a guess on my part. Maybe it won't affect anything, since as many have pointed out already, there are lots of other avenues for purchasing the game(s) of your choice.

#4429965

CronoGraal

2012-10-12 20:50

It's their marketplace. Do you oppose of Nintendo and Sony not allowing Adult games on their systems as well?

Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo all have PEGI 18 games on their respective consoles.

#4429976

Kaleid

2012-10-12 21:01

Microsoft is becoming more like Apple, such a shame.

#4429988

EspHack

2012-10-12 21:09

just when i think there is no more bad things to hear about windows 8 ... lol people should give it a break

#4430018

KissSh0t

2012-10-12 21:50

I guess the Windows 8 Marketplace is intended for use by children and not adults then? Perhaps Windows 8 is being targeted at children, that could explain all the large icons and large buttons and the new start menu screen.

#4430026

CronoGraal

2012-10-12 21:53

Yes they do but in the US all of those games receive a Mature 17+ rating. So as Brasky said "It's your countries rating system that is to blame".

I'm sorry but "PEGI 18" and "Mature 17+" seems like the same thing to me. If Windows 8 is indeed allowing Mature 17+ games and making exceptions in the European market then I suppose it's ok.

#4430043

DSparil

2012-10-12 22:11

Well games are for kids. No ?

I am sure this is sarcasm but just to throw this out there, A recent study showed that the average gamer is 30 years old :infinity:

Not one of you would buy from the Windows Store anyway, so why do you care? Further, most of you have expressed that you will never use Windows 8 anyway.

haha, true. I am pretty sure I will not be "upgrading" to Touchscreen 8.

#4430294

PCElite

2012-10-13 12:19

I am sure this is sarcasm but just to throw this out there, A recent study showed that the average gamer is 30 years old :infinity:

38 and women are majority:infinity:

#4430400

Brasky

2012-10-13 15:20

38 and women are majority:infinity:

then that study is wrong. or it counts angry birds or some other uselesss apple device device as a "videogame" ridic... not even worth of the ulous.

#4441972

Brasky

2012-10-29 05:20

Updated-- Microsoft will allow adult games in the windows store http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/10300/article/windows-store-revises-policy-to-allow-adult-games/