[quote name='Pipstickz' timestamp='1349210636' post='122881']
Can somebody give an actual quote or evidence that the game is rated anything by Mur or the Council's choice? If not, then all this talk about ratings is strictly speculative.
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Actually a month or so when registering a new account i noticed a "Teen ESRB" logo on the new register page. Since i doubted that MD was properly rated by ESRB becuase it doesnt fall into A) a finished product that is offically "released" and B) "online interactions not rated blah blah" i mailed council and BFH regarding it. The logo was quickly removed and council confirmed that indeed MD was not rated by ERSB.
Checking now, this is the current text:
[quote] [font=Georgia,]We try to keep our game world clean, but this is not an adventure for the faint-hearted. Suitable for ages 13 and older. May contain violence, suggestive themes, crude humour, minimal blood, simulated gambling, and/or infrequent use of strong language. The content of this game is rated 13+ as some puzzles and contents are quite complex. MagicDuel is a Multiplayer game with live chat and we cannot control what other people will do or say, although we do enforce a no swearing and no adult content in public areas rule via our moderators as much as possible.[/font]
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Link:[url="http://magicduel.com/new_begining.php"]http://magicduel.com/new_begining.php[/url]
You need to actually enter a playername, email and password before you offically fully sign up, and then it shows the above text. Just enter fake info if you dont believe its there, it wont properly register until you check the box on the page with the above text and press signup or something.
[quote name='Rumi' timestamp='1349236616' post='122928']
Dual issue here is in game rules and forum rules. Do the log and onscreen chat need to meet different standards? I think Chewett could maybe clarify about what constitutes a violation of our terms and conditions.
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I cant speak on ingame rules, but what dst has previous said is correct, Anything on the forum needs to obey both the forum rules (which i was sure had references to some standard no drugs stuff) and the invisionzone ones, which again i believe have references to drug related items. if we break the invisionzone rules our service can be suspended and since invisionzone databases are near impossible to port (at least this version hasnt had the proper coding time spend on working on a port yet) then essentially we lose most of the content unless i do extensive work to port it myself which i dont have time for.
Not to mention PageRank has lots of things to lower sites with any drugs and such in
My comments on the forum are however completely different from ingame. I dont care what you have cyber sex ingame, but i do care if you start posting it on the forum.