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Well We Can All Wave Goodbye To Horror Games And Games With Decent Melee Combat Now

Anonymous
Not applicable
Oculus have just emailed with regards to a new content policy and it's ridiculous. Details here:

https://developer.oculus.com/distribute/latest/concepts/publish-content-guidelines/

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Content Guidelines

Here are some basic content standards that we apply to all apps and games. The following is not accepted in the Oculus Store:

  • Pornography, including content for the purpose of sexual gratification.
  • Excessively violent content (including but not limited to: torture, rape, child abuse, animal abuse, cannibalism, glorification of gore, and dismemberment).
  • Hate speech, bullying, molestation, or harassment.
  • Real-money gambling.
  • Applications directed to children or users under the age of 13.


So if you're wanting to play a horror game or game with melee combat you won't see any dismemberment. Fucking ridiculous.

I can see horror game developers in particular abandoning the Oculus Store in favour of Steam if you can't have a few severed limbs here and there. And that's going to be a disaster for all Rift owners because we know how much of a clusterfuck SteamVR is for Rift owners since the Rift launched.

Dismemberment has been a part of video games since the 80s ffs.
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JohnnyDioxin
Expert Trustee
I would bet this is a reaction to the recent School Shooting fiasco on Steam. Made headlines in the news - and little wonder, considering recent events. The idea was to shoot as many "civilians" and children as you could, in a school environment.

Personally, I feel Steam should shoulder a large part of the blame for that, as they said they knew the dev was a "bad guy" but hadn't realised who he was, as he was using a different company name.

They can't expect us to believe that they only deal with company names and don't know the names of the individual devs they make contracts with.

Anyway - I'll look for a link to the Beeb story - was just reading it yesterday.

Here ya go:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44302146

Found this from March as well:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-43414617

Wouldn't blame Oculus/FB for distancing themselves from such unacceptable crap.



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bigmike20vt
Visionary
I wonder if this is in reaction to the school shooting game on steam. Maybe oculus are trying to get strict rules in place before their hand is forced. I fear unless content distributors get their house in order we may get drastic government heavy handedness. God help us is we get like Australia or Germany.
All the kiddie stuff (being banned) I am fine with. What is shocking on a monitor could be very disturbing in vr however I do hope violence in context is ok, the example you say above, circumventing security. Using a dismembered thumb sounds fine to me in an adult rated game...... As should legal porn be imo

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RedRizla
Honored Visionary
@Brixmis - By what snowdog has wrote, it looks like Oculus are distancing themselves more from just what that one game involved. I also read that article and it's obvious that game wasn't going to remain on any store for very long for obvious reasons.. 

Shadowmask72
Honored Visionary
So, that confirms then no Resident Evil 7 on the Oculus Store if it ever came.

Dismemberment in the first 15 minutes of the game.




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ElusiveMarlin
Rising Star

I just bought the Arizona Sunshine DLC last night, and this would definitely fall foul of these rules, as you blow zombie limbs and heads clean off in this game franchise!

It would be a sad loss if games like this are no longer produced for Rift. 
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Anonymous
Not applicable
We know we only play Arizona Sunshine in Horde Mode just because of saving the Asian Hooker for the last only to first shoot off both her arms and then one of her legs and see her wriggle towards you!

JohnnyDioxin
Expert Trustee
Maybe they would say it referred to dismemberment of living 'representations of people' only.

I'm sure they will be asked about this - probably repeatedly - in media interviews, so I think we will get clarification with time (which devs won't have much of - but they can ask directly, of course).

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RedRizla
Honored Visionary

Brixmis said:

Maybe they would say it referred to dismemberment of living 'representations of people' only.

I'm sure they will be asked about this - probably repeatedly - in media interviews, so I think we will get clarification with time (which devs won't have much of - but they can ask directly, of course).



The whole thing needs explaining better because it's ridiculous. Maybe someone could clear it up before the devs decide to leave Oculus in their droves because they're unsure what all this actually means. I get most of it apart from the "glorification of gore or dismemberment."

Zenbane
MVP
MVP
Excessively violent games can still be played on the Rift, you just can't buy them direct from the Oculus Store. But developers can sell them on their websites and we can play by allowing 'external sources' (or whatever that option is).

Also, I'm willing to bet that the "dismemberment" clause is limited to animals and people. I'm pretty sure we'll still be able to dismember zombies, demons, and monsters.

ElusiveMarlin
Rising Star
The Irony is that one of the free games I got with my Rift sees me ripping the arms of a robot and smacking it with it! 🙂
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