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Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
Game Rating and how that will work (or not)
Mionikoi
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I'll be frank. I don't think AoC can manage to be a T rated game. I don't see this game being rated mature because of any content that might be added to it.
Being M rated because of an adult community? Yes. I don't foresee them allowing full on nudity, drugs, excessive gore, blood, and swearing.
I don't believe there are many MMOs that have enough adult content to warrant their rating.
However, adults as a player base is a different story.
What do you think? Do you want certain mature features in the game? Do you want certain things to not be left out?
Should it be toggle-able?
Will brothels be a thing in Verra? I am asking for a friend.
YouTube Interview
I'll be frank. I don't think AoC can manage to be a T rated game. I don't see this game being rated mature because of any content that might be added to it.
Being M rated because of an adult community? Yes. I don't foresee them allowing full on nudity, drugs, excessive gore, blood, and swearing.
I don't believe there are many MMOs that have enough adult content to warrant their rating.
However, adults as a player base is a different story.
What do you think? Do you want certain mature features in the game? Do you want certain things to not be left out?
Should it be toggle-able?
Will brothels be a thing in Verra? I am asking for a friend.
MY Own NIckle Co-operates with an EYE. -Mīonikoī.
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I imagine nothing higher than a T rating considering the design of the game. But I wouldn't be surprised if it was E 10+. Game does feel like it's designed between E10+ and T. At least in the country I live in anyways.
None of this really applies to the rating, of course, but I don't think AoC is aiming for a young-teen player base.
It's based on the design of the game, not the age of people playing it. Lot's of adults that play Fortnite and it's not rated M... lol. The economy isn't going to overwhelm teenagers. Make currency and buy things with that currency.
Let's see..
Do the bodies of players turn to ash or corpses? piles of ash but i suppose we might see some corpses of fantasy beings.
Is there blood and gore? nope. especially when it comes to combat. Minor things in cosmetics and "carphin" but that's about all we've seen.
is there strong offensive language in the games design? nope
Definitely not intense violence.
Sexual content? most armour sets cover up everything considered "sexual",
can we expect sexual innuendo? probably not.
Offensive language in chat? sounds like a parental filter feature can handle that.
The games design thresholds literally check the T Rating currently with some touching the E Rating.
also... what gambling? Tavern parlor games?
I know they not doing loot boxes and what not afaik
but i guess it would be the PEGI system if EU?
https://pegi.info/what-do-the-labels-mean
Ugly NPCs and nice baby zombies which run fast and grab you where it hurts.
Yeah, but I don't think AoC is blocky enough for that.
If they end up doing so, then I want ugly NPCs and clean zombies.
brutal? literally no blood spray or wound, the pig just made a noise. It's not like we get to rip and tear through its organs lol. There was a little darkened skin blotch around the neck but that's about it.
Ratings shouldn't really depend on the possibility of lewd language and chat-subject content of an in-game chat. The now-defunct Free Realms was a kids' game - but that didn't mean that there was no possibility of adult-themed chat.
When we catch fish, can we do like Gollum?
Interestingly enough, outside of the ESRB standardisation for electronics/video games, the country I reside in is much more liberal compared to US for Television and Movie content ratings. I remember growing up and movies were Rated R in the US but were rated lower here such as Rated 18+ and 14+.
The US always had things rated more severely in comparison. Things may have changed over the decades though.
Aye, the US here is a bit backwards, compared to places like Europe and Canada. In those places, sexual content is introduced at much younger ages and is the more socially-acceptable content; A British kid will likely see his first love-making scene in a movie before his first on-screen shoot-out. In the states? We're exactly the opposite. Our kids' *cartoons* often have blood and violence.
Quite true. I think even 4 kids does a lot of censoring especially for anime to this date.
That kind of brutality doesn't bother me. I'm going to assume that AoC will be like ESO where there will be no children NPCs.
That's fair I suppose
I don't know really how the gambling will work in the parlor games. Obviously in-game currency and probably capped for betting so gold sellers and players don't break the economy as easily. I will say though, there is plans for mobile access via apps. This apparently includes the freehold, parlor games etc. last time I checked anyways.
I don't see how it gimps the game if they're designing it around a more friendly design already lol. Lot's of games sold account time cards at retailers online or in person. No credit card required, just a legal transaction.
I would be amused if Intrepid did this. Unleash a bunch of little psychopaths onto the world.
They have got some pretty good skits over the years