Prohibited Content
By opening up Xbox LIVE Marketplace to user-generated games,
we are placing a high level of trust in our creator community. Reviewers must
verify that the content does not contain any of the following prohibited
content.
If a game containing prohibited content enters the system,
we will take it down from Xbox LIVE Marketplace, revoke it from the console,
and then follow up with the reviewers and creators who allowed it to pass the
peer review process.
We reserve the right to expel abusive members from the XNA
Creators Club, ban their accounts from Xbox LIVE, and change their review
reputation – depending on the severity of the violation. Sharing XNA
community games is a privilege. It takes only a few bad apples to ruin it for
everybody. We can’t emphasize enough how important your role is as a peer
reviewer and responsible creator. Use the beta to really set the tone for a
responsible community. Enough said.
Classification
If you decide the game is appropriate, you must classify it.
Game classification defines the content of the game, and higher content
descriptor values will not restrict the game’s distribution. We expect a
variety of games with classifications from 0 to 3 in all categories on Xbox
LIVE Marketplace. For the United States, we have descriptors that belong to three
categories: Violence, Sex, and Mature Content.
Move the sliders for each descriptor according to your
experience. Please give us your feedback on the classification categories and
descriptions. The exact values and descriptors may evolve to better reflect the
game or the consumer experience. Note that the game creator owns the
classification. If enough peer reviewers disagree with the author’s
classification, then the game is rejected and the author should adjust the
classification to better reflect the content.
Summary
You are almost done. Double-check your work on the summary
page, and then click Submit Review
from the summary page.
Rejected!
Games that do not pass peer review move to the rejected
state. Please provide for the game author a helpful explanation in the comments
section of the summary page. This enables the author to fix the game quickly
and put it back into peer review. A release in the rejected state can either be
deleted or revised. If a release is revised, it moves to the pending state so
that the author can correct the issue.
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The feedback seems particularly geared towards addressing the obvious issues, for example it is assumed that primary content will be violence.
I find it unfortunate that strong sexual content or nudity should be excluded without question or only addressed in the simple form of "sexual overtones" and "nudity". Why is it that violence is broken down into motivation, including cruelty, but sexual content is only displayed by it's inclusion? I quickly googled to try and find out a bit more clarification about the sliders so there may be more finesse in the definitions but it certainly can't be as extensive as for the other aspects.
There are perfectly legitimate contexts in which nudity or sexual content could feature. The reason fiasco over Mass effect demonstrates the deliberate ignorance in certain parts of the community but that is not a problem solved by sanitising content.
It is understandable that the overtly pornographic games may not be consistent with objectives of the xna project but surely games should press on for equivalence with other forms of media.
Would it not be more appropriate to have gratuitous or inappropriately sexual content flag? Or sexism?
How could it categorise political content?
Alternatively is it not possible to have an over 18 rating? and ability for the user to create there own classifications? similar to sites such as youtube. There peer review seems to work fairly well.
Not that I have a game ready for submission as yet, just curious as I am studying a Bachelor of Games & Interactive Entertainment and xna is just such a great and affordable way to reach a global audience. Thanks