Hello from the GenPlay Team.
GenPlay aims to create a fun, safe, and welcoming community space where users can share gameplay video content, connect, and discover new games. To ensure all users can enjoy a respectful and positive experience, we have established these Community Guidelines that must be followed while using the service.
Please familiarize yourself with the following content and join us in building a joyful GenPlay community.
Changes to Guidelines:
GenPlay reserves the right to modify these Community Guidelines at any time to reflect service developments and changes in relevant laws and policies. When the Guidelines are changed, GenPlay will notify users of the changes and their effective date through website announcements or other appropriate methods. The changed Guidelines become effective from the announced date of implementation. If you continue to use the GenPlay service after the effective date of the changed Guidelines, you are considered to have agreed to the changed Guidelines. If you do not agree to the changed Guidelines, you may stop using the service and delete your account.
Core Principles: Foster a respectful, safe, and positive environment.
All users of GenPlay are responsible for treating each other with respect, maintaining a safe environment, and contributing positively to other users' experiences.
Prohibited Content and Behavior:
Posting or sharing any kind of video content, speaking during video playback, or distributing any other content through chat or any other means within the GenPlay service that falls under the categories listed below is strictly prohibited. Furthermore, promoting or advocating for such content or behavior is also prohibited.
- Safety & Violence:
- Child Safety Violations: Any kind of content that targets children or harms children is absolutely prohibited. Content involving child exploitation, abuse, or putting children at risk may be reported immediately to relevant authorities.
- Real Violence and Gory Content: Content that is shocking or causes disgust, such as actual physical violence, torture, bodily injury, or death scenes (However, the level of violent expression in game content is subject to the game's rating and platform policy. Actual violence is distinguished from fictional in-game violence).
- Promoting Dangerous Acts and Illegal Activities: Content that encourages or instructs actions that pose a risk to life or body, such as self-harm, suicide, illegal drug use, or dangerous challenges, or promotes illegal activities. Also, content promoting or advocating for the sale or use of illegal goods or services such as illegal drugs, illegal weapons, illegal organ trade, or illegal gambling.
- Self-Harm and Suicide: Content related to self-harm, suicide, or eating disorders is absolutely prohibited. Content that promotes, depicts, glorifies, or shares specific methods related to self-harm or suicide is not allowed. Providing information for users who need help (such as helpline numbers) may be allowed.
- Hate Speech & Harassment:
- Hate Speech: Content that promotes or expresses violence, hatred, discrimination, or denigration against specific individuals or groups based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, disease, age, etc.
- Harassment and Cyberbullying: Repeatedly causing offense to, threatening, or harassing specific individuals. This includes personal attacks, ridicule, stalking, invasion of privacy, and unauthorized distribution of personal information (including video content, audio, and chat).
- Protection of Others' Personal Information: Sharing or distributing personal identification information of other users (such as real name, address, phone number, email address, private photos, etc.) without the explicit consent of that user is prohibited.
- Threats: Directly or indirectly threatening to cause physical or mental harm to others.
- Vulgar Language & Cursing: Using excessive or offensive vulgar language and cursing that causes discomfort to others is prohibited. This applies to all forms of communication including video content, audio, and chat.
- Spam, Scams & Deceptive Practices:
- Spam: Actions that disrupt other users or service operation through advertising, promotion, unnecessary repetitive messages, chat flooding, or deceptive titles or thumbnails.
- Scams and Deception: Attempts to disseminate false information or deceive other users for financial or personal gain (such as phishing or attempts to hijack accounts).
- Service Abuse: Attempts to exploit vulnerabilities in the GenPlay system or manipulate traffic or advertising revenue through abnormal methods.
- Inappropriate Promotion of Regulated Goods/Services: Content that directly promotes or solicits the sale or use of certain goods (e.g., alcoholic beverages, tobacco, professional pharmaceuticals, adult products, etc.) or services that are legally regulated for sale or use, in a manner that is not appropriate for the context of the GenPlay community is prohibited. (Examples: Directly encouraging the purchase of alcoholic beverages during a gameplay video or sharing links to adult product sales websites).
- Account Integrity and Impersonation: Impersonating another individual, organization, brand, or GenPlay is prohibited. Creating accounts using false information, or operating multiple accounts inappropriately to deceive others or disrupt service operation is also prohibited.
- Nudity & Sexual Content:
- Sexually explicit or obscene content. Content that involves excessive nudity or depicts sexual acts is prohibited.
- (However, the level of sexual expression in game content is subject to the game's rating and platform policy. This is distinguished from nudity and sexual acts involving real people).
- Platform Integrity:
- Promoting Illegal Programs/Cheats: Video content that uses or shares how to use in-game hacks or abnormal methods (cheats).
- Service Disruption: Actions that disrupt the normal operation of the GenPlay service or overload the system.
- Prohibition of Harmful or Inappropriate External Links: Inducing users to connect to external websites, platforms, or services (through video content, chat, profile links, comments, or any other means) that contain or distribute malware, phishing, scams, illegal content (including copyright-infringing content), or content violating these guidelines is prohibited.
- Copyright & Intellectual Property Infringement:
- Any kind of content that infringes on the copyright, trademark, portrait rights, or other intellectual property rights of others is prohibited.
- Especially, the copyright and related policies for gameplay video content shared on GenPlay belong to the developer or publisher of that game.
- While many game developers/publishers allow individuals to share and create gameplay videos for promotional purposes, the scope of permission, whether commercial use (monetization) is allowed, the scope of using specific game assets, etc., may vary by company and can change periodically.
- GenPlay users are responsible for confirming and complying with the policies and terms of service set by the developer or publisher of the game they intend to create and share as content.
- The responsibility for any issues arising from violating the game company's policies (e.g., content takedown requests, account penalties, etc.) rests entirely with the content creator, and GenPlay is not responsible for this.
- In addition to the copyright of the game itself, unauthorized use of copyrighted material or trademarks belonging to others included in video content (such as background music in a stream, clips from other videos, images, etc.) is also prohibited.
Additional Rules for Using GenPlay:
- Game Play Content
- Only gameplay video content of legally acquired games may be shared on GenPlay. Gameplay video content of illegally copied games is not allowed.
- The original game of the shared gameplay video content must generally be classified with an age rating of 18 years or younger (e.g., All Ages, 12+, 15+). Gameplay videos of games classified with an age rating of 18 years or older (Adult) cannot be shared.
- Regardless of the game's rating, the video content itself must not contain content that falls under the 'Prohibited Content and Behavior' outlined in these guidelines (e.g., hate speech, real violence, nudity, etc.).
- Download Link Feature: This feature should only be used for connecting to legitimate game stores (Google Play Store, Apple App Store, etc.) related to the shared gameplay video content. Linking to malicious code distribution, scam sites, or other harmful links is prohibited.
- Chat and Comments: All chat messages and comments are subject to the relevant provisions of these guidelines, such as 'Respect & Harassment'. Please refrain from chat or comments that cause discomfort to other users.
Enforcement and Reporting Violations:
- Consequences of Violations: If GenPlay finds content or behavior that violates the Community Guidelines, it may take necessary actions such as deleting the content, issuing a warning, or temporarily or permanently restricting account usage. Depending on the severity of the violation, immediate permanent restriction may occur.
- How to Report Violations: If you find content or behavior that violates the guidelines, please report it by sending an email to support@gameplaylabs.org, or use the in-app reporting feature when it is implemented in the future. To ensure accurate and prompt processing, please provide as much detailed information as possible in your report (username, video link, description of the violation, timestamp, screenshots/videos, etc.).
Appeals:
If you disagree with a decision made by GenPlay, please contact us at support@gameplaylabs.org.
Conclusion:
The GenPlay Community Guidelines are established to ensure all users can enjoy the service safely and enjoyably. We ask that you comply with the guidelines and actively participate in fostering a positive GenPlay community culture together.