South Korea Targeting Steam Over Ratings Dispute

[Waif]

I suppose this is a prime reason why an international rating system would be a good idea. Not sure why the South Korean government would bother with this. This is more of a North Korea thing I would think.

 

[Royas]

To everyone saying that Steam in Korea is not big:

You're wrong. I went there recently and in the top 10 charts after StarCraft (which is undoubtedly is #1)? Counter-Strike, Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead 2.

All you may hear about Korea is MMOs and StarCraft, but there is definitely a strong market for Valve games. I had the pleasure of playing TF2 over there, and the players are pretty damn good, and this is just from pubbing.

So please, at least have some experience before you comment. Because that's just insulting to a nation whose population is far better than the media says.

Then, it's up to the people of South Korea whether or not they are willing to put up with this nonsense. If there are really so many people playing Steam games, they are the ones who need to protest a cut-off. Not much anybody else can do with a nation with unreasonable levels of control over speech.

Really wish the political types of the world would figure it out... adults can decide what games to play without government help, and it's the job of parents to control access for the kids. Period.

 

[cobrausn]

The ratings system in Korea sounds an awful lot like extortion. But it can't be, because it's the government, so naturally anything they do is legal.

You know, it used to be that 1 person would decide the fate of a million people. Now about 500 people decide the fate of 500 million. I fail to see much of a difference.