Is Dirty Bomb Rated for Mature or Teenage Audience?

[FalC_16]

Im old, wish it would be mature audience…

[GatoCommodore]

@FalC_16 said:
Im old, wish it would be mature audience…

you wish…

[ValyrianKaos]

We need all the the player base we can get. Can’t afford to be picky lol

[AlbinMatt]

Besides the mild cussing (which is barely noticeable), I’d give DB a 16+ rating. Pushing the age limit higher will just invite depressed college students. You need that whinny teen energy for a game like this.

Also, have an Oldog member oversee server.

[OCB-Wildcard]

@stayfreshshoe said:
iirc a game that isn’t boxed and only has multiplayer doesn’t need an official rating.

Ding, ding, ding! That is the correct answer!

Online interactions, in games as a medium, are not rated by the ESRB or its overseas equivalents. So, by extension, games that only contain online interactions are outside of their “sphere of influence” and exempt from the rating system.

That being said though @stayfreshshoe, I think this was more meant to gauge what kinds of players we wish were the majority in this game. Personally I don’t mind dealing with kids but some of them can be rather annoying; but that’s the case for any age bracket so win-some-lose-some is how I take it.

[Artyrim]

Is for random poors FreeToPlayers ,so +6

[Nail]

" In 2011, the ESRB began offering a system to automatically assign ratings for digitally-distributed games and mobile apps"

[Xenithos]

Copied directly from different areas of ESRB.org

! DIGITALLY-DELIVERED GAMES AND APPS
! Games and apps that are available solely via download or accessible only online may be rated using either a “Short Form” process or via a similar process implemented by the International Age Rating Coalition (IARC). Publishers of these digitally delivered games and apps complete a series of multiple-choice questions that address content across relevant categories (as described above). The questionnaire also asks questions related to a game’s interactive components, such as the enabling of user interactions via the internet, the sharing of a user’s physical location, if it enables the purchase of digital goods, and/or if unrestricted Internet access is provided. The responses to these questions automatically determine the game’s Rating Category, Content Descriptors and Interactive Elements, which are issued immediately upon completion of the questionnaire. Because these products are rated by an automated process they do not receive Rating Summaries.
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! Due to the volume of digitally delivered games and apps, ESRB works with developers, the mobile community at large and storefronts that display ESRB ratings to identify rating issues whenever possible. This augments ESRB’s own testing of digitally delivered games and apps to ensure that appropriate ratings have been assigned. In the event content was not fully or accurately disclosed by the developer, the rating displayed will be promptly corrected or, in egregious cases, the game may be removed from the store.

"Are all games and apps required to have a rating?

The rating system is voluntary, although virtually all video games that are sold at retail or downloaded to a game system in the U.S. and Canada are rated by the ESRB."

! Do ESRB ratings address online-enabled elements like player chat, player-generated content or downloadable music? ESRB ratings only address content created by the game’s developer and do not consider content that is created or introduced by other players when playing the game online. However, these games do display notices that advise consumers to expect this type of content. Physical (boxed) games that can be played online with other players and facilitate exposure to user-generated content must display an Online Rating Notice that states: “Online Interactions Not Rated By the ESRB.” This notice is intended to warn consumers about possible exposure to chat (text, audio, video) or other types of user-generated content (e.g., maps, skins) that have not been considered in the ESRB rating assignment.
! What are the criteria by which ratings are assigned?
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ESRB raters are trained to consider a wide range of pertinent content and other elements in assigning a rating. Pertinent content is any content that accurately reflects both:

• the most extreme content of the final product - in terms of relevant rating criteria such as violence, language, sexuality, gambling, and alcohol, tobacco and drug reference or use; and
• the final product as a whole - demonstrating the game’s context (such as setting, storyline and objectives) and relative frequency of extreme content.’

Me talking: Dirty Bomb would be rated mature due to suggestive themes in the taunts, “heavy use” of tobacco if playing Bushwhacker, and language throughout. I’m not sure if there is anyone in DB that doesn’t swear, and since it is content created by the developer for “taunts” then it would fall under that… Also, setting is literally a “nuclear aftermath” in wartime setting, rofl.

So… Yeah, it would very likely be M for Mature 17 and over. Not 18 and over…

It’s “Mature 17+” ||| “18+” up is “Adult only.”

Edit: Also, online games are usually rated through a questionnaire and not directly by ESRB and it’s a different service under the IARC which ESRB is a part of. Also, keyword: “Extreme”

[fryszopen]

This game is pretty light-hearted, considering the main goal is to explode stuffs like a terrorist (and stop that from happening), killing everything that moves and the occasional sod-off to your enemies. T raded seems adecuate to me