So, finally I uploaded my first app to Google Play yesterday. AdMob, Analytics etc is ready to go. The game is a very simple game that is about reaction time by splatting as many worms as possible as fast as possible. These cartoon style worms lives in your garden and your mission is to defend the vegetables in the garden. After a while, moles start to show up along with the worms. Those moles are not to be splatted, if you do splat them you will get a penalty.
Ok, so far so good. I read about the Google play maturity levels and I found that since this app show an artificial blood splat, that is, some cartoonish violence I didn't set it to no maturity, instead I set it to the second lowest level, where it according to the set rules should be. So what happens? Google decides to set the maturity level to "Medium high" due to the logo, which is a creepy carrot and I got a standardized threat that if this happens again they will ... and that they track everything.
I don't know if I should laugh or cry and initially I thought of re-branding the whole thing since I have another two games coming out really soon, but then I realized that I of course should ask you guys/gals here. You probably know the answer to this:
In what way do the Google Play maturity levels affects downloads? Will it prohibit the youngest kids from downloading this free app if the maturity level is set to "Medium High"? Are there anything else to consider related to the maturity level classification? Will it affect AdMob ads?
Should I re-brand it?
Thank you!
clearly you did not read the 10 pages rules they have
instead of showing blood, (that is so old in games, its to cheesy in my opinion) i wold change the blood effect with carrot juice or a explosion flash like (kapaw and a star behind it ) that's if u want to be rated 12+ if u want 4+ then u have to not show any violence at all not even throwing rocks, because 4+ years old and under 14 they tend to do what they see( monkey see , monkey do) so imagine u have a kid playing you'r game that kills carrots , and then takes a hammer goes outside and hammers his dog or his toes (cause they look like carrots- the toes) whats the result of that? as stupid it may sound, there are many cases of juvenile aggression because of the actions they do in games, heard so many story's u cant believe it, and USA its one of the most country's that have issues like this, kids to spoiled, and USA its Google's market mostly. |And because Google's headquarters are in USA they have to follow some rules, and you have to follow them 2 in order to make money with them in this program they have. cheers hope you really think before you publish something and try to think what is practical and cool for kids , not of what you think it may be cool and what you like.(that's called market research)