ESRB can be mislead - A2M dev

News - Some publishers try to trick ratings board

A2M CEO Remi Racine has put the cat amongst the pigeons when speaking at the Montreal International Games Summit, the WET creator stating that US ratings board the ESRB can be mislead into giving lower ratings - and have been in the past.

"As a developer who has worked with a lot of different publishers, we're aware of many that have tried to cheat the rating. They say to the ERSB that it's a Teen rating rather than an Mature to try and sell more. You can do this just by sending them a video that doesn't show the most violent stuff and then you'll get the rating that you want rather than the rating you should get," Racine reveals, as reported by Edge.

"We have to make sure that everyone behaves and that the ERSB is duly diligent. Maybe getting your game out at a certain rating will help that game, but it's really not going to help the industry as a whole.

"Right now I don't think the industry is doing enough to educate the audience. The ERSB is supposed to do it, but it feels like we just kind of expect these kind of industry or government bodies to do the job for us. As much as I don't think it's the place of EA or Activision to go off and try and inform parents on their own, a more active role needs to be taken by all participants to ensure our artists are free to express themselves and that content can be enjoyed responsibly."