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

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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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What were the old guidelines?  Much different?

I find it hard to believe you can’t have limbs being blown off in a pc game.
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Anonymous
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Well they say after that copy pasta I've done that stuff found in R rated films should be fine but being a Brit I have no idea what the equivalent is over here. I'm guessing an 18 certificate? You can have dismemberment in 18 rated films without a problem but if they've singled out dismemberment as a no-no in that list I'm guessing you can't have that in your game.

Fuck knows.

I've started a thread on the Developer forum so hopefully someone can clarify things.

It's going to screw a part of my game now that I'm thinking about it though. I was planning on players needing cut off thumbs from high ranking crew members to open a few doors but I suppose that idea is screwed now. 😞

Roaster
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Sexual gratifcation has been a part of life since 3 billion BC. Let's pretend it doesn't exist.
Personally I get off on puzzle games, so I expect to see the genre removed from the store. Pretty much all movies too.
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Anonymous
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Forgot to say that I don't know what the old guidelines were, they've just said that current games in the Oculus Store that don't follow these new guidelines won't be affected.


snowdog said:

Forgot to say that I don't know what the old guidelines were, they've just said that current games in the Oculus Store that don't follow these new guidelines won't be affected.



Well that tells me things have got stricter.  What next - quotas?
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Anonymous
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I mean I can understand most of those things not being allowed but not allowing dismemberment is just plain ridiculous. That has gone on in video games for more than 30 years. 😮

Anonymous
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Why not ... idk .. allow an age setting? Or allow multi profiles for different users like we have with netflix for what you can see/watch?

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Mradr said:

Why not ... idk .. allow an age setting? Or allow multi profiles for different users like we have with netflix for what you can see/watch?



This is where I'm confused. It says below that part that I quoted that stuff in R rated films should be fine but I've no idea what the equivalent is over here in the UK. I'm guessing it's the equivalent of an 18 certificate but over here you can have arms, legs and heads flying all over the place in films for 18 years old plus. In fact I'm pretty sure that I went with my Dad to the cinema to see Conan The Barbarian when I was aged 11 and it was a 15 certificate at the time and had limbs and heads getting severed.

And even if R rated films can have dismemberment in the States they've mentioned dismemberment as a major no-no in that list. Which is just plain stupid. Like I've said we've had dismemberment in video games since the 80s ffs.

I'm SERIOUSLY pissed off if we can't have dismemberment in games on the Oculus Store now.