The Ministries of Health, Economic and Digital Development, together with Roskomnadzor, are preparing a new bill, limiting the distribution of foreign games with prohibited information, Kommersant reports. The amendments are closely related to the federal law "On the protection of children from information harmful to their health."
The politicians responsible for this initiative suggest that in the Internet space it is essential to ensure game content securityto reduce the number of "dangerous acts committed under the influence of games".
Nominated key ideas:
- The release of new games should be accompanied by the introduction age rating.
- The age limit must be set by experts.
- Games must not distribute content prohibited in the Russian Federation.
- Games containing "prohibited information" shouldn't go out in Russia.
Many assume that after the bill enters into force, on the territory of Russia may be blocked by Steam, as well as other platforms involved in the distribution of games at the official level. It’s probably hard to talk about this, but some experts are sure that in this case, most gamers will return to torrents and “piracy”.
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It seems to me that someone paid the deputies to take on steam and other sites will get to the consoles and ban sales in Russia, it seems that something like steam is being prepared in Russia like vk play and they just want to remove competitors under an imaginary pretext
It's time to move on to the boards.
Article is complete nonsense.
1 In Steam, age is already entered without it, you won’t even go to the page and download the game.
2 It is already installed by specialists
3 Steam easily bans games on demand
4 A bunch of games about gays and suicidal people have long been in the bath.
So I see, on the contrary, some incentives and hitting independent sites.
You misunderstood the message.
“Roskomnadzor and the prosecutor’s office will have the right to demand from Steam or the Epic Games Store to prevent the sale of a game to Russian customers, where, say, one of the characters is gay.”
So far, this is only theoretical, but if Steam ignores the requirements, the authorities will have a tool to completely block the site.
Source: "Merchant»
So it is and so it is. A bunch of games about homosexuals in the bath for a long time, namely in the Russian Federation. I don’t know how in Epic I’m not interested in him, but in Steam it is. Steam just bans the game in Russia on demand and that's it.
Steam will disable the sale of this game in our region, this is already being done
With some games (for example, DbD), you won't have to ban the entire site.