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A couple of days ago a post showed up on reddit. The submitter described a grim situation, the post linked to various forum posts highlighting a practice where by the South Korean Game Rating Board (GRB) was shutting down indie dev's projects for failing to pay their censorship fees.
At the moment any electronic game distributed on-line in South Korea is required to be rated by the GRB regardless of price or development cost.The pricing structure it’s self isn’t the most lenient or rewarding. The poster laid out a great little table that uses the gamer friendly terms of multipliers.
Basic fee per game:
less than 10MB - 21000 won, 17.5$
10MB to 100MB - 50000 won, 23.8$
100MB to 300MB - 56000 won, 47.5$
more than 300MB - 168000 wom, 142.97$
AND Coefficients... (This was somewhat difficult vocalbulary for me XD)
Network related - x1.5
Not network related - x1.0
AND Coefficients again per genres
Role playing games - x3.0
Betting-related, fighting, adventure, simulation, FPS - x2.0
Puzzle, board, sports - x1.5
Educational - x1.0
AND Coefficients for localizing
Non-korean localized x1.1
Korean localized x1.0
So... someone made 105MB of single-role-playing games in Korean, for FREE. he/she has to pay 23.8 * 1.0 * 3.0 * 1.0 = approx 71.4$
So as you can see the prices can easily mount up and if you cannot come up with the dough expect a cease and desist letter from the GRB, Still want to try your luck then it seems that the Grb have the power to nationally block your website.
It’s not just the little guys either the GRB have set their eyes onto Steam and the Android market.
So things aren’t looking to good for the indie devs of South Korea one commenter had suggested that foreign sites like Tig-source could provide a loop hole to this dilemma, Currently this is a hot topic on their forums go check it out. http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=14677.15http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=14677.15  A couple of days ago a post showed up on reddit. The submitter described a grim situation, the post linked to various forum posts highlighting a practice where by the South Korean Game Rating Board (GRB) was shutting down indie dev's projects for failing to pay their censorship fees...
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