ESRB Could Fine Publishers $1m

ESRB president Patricia Vance told the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection, “After a game ships, if disclosure is found to have been incomplete, recent enhancements to the ESRB enforcement system will soon allow for the imposition of fines up to $1 million.

I agree to an extent. Game publishers shouldn’t hide anything, because obviously it doesn’t seem to pay off in the end. But 1M? That’s outrageous. One other part I find odd, is the fact that they rarely play the games they rate, because they are ‘too lengthy’. At last check, games are shorter than they ever have been.