It sounds like the ESRB could make it harder for indie game developers to sell their games. Recently, the Entertainment Software Ratings Board announced that it will be eliminating free, short-form ratings for digital games according to Gamasutra. While there aren't any laws mandating a rating, if a game isn't rated by the ESRB (or PEGI internationally) good luck purchasing it at a brick and mortar store, or on a console's digital marketplace. The ESRB's stopgap is saying that digital games can be rated for free by the International Age Rating Coalition (IARC) -- a potentially quicker process for rating games on region-by-region basis -- but the catch there is not every digital marketplace uses IARC ratings. Specifically, the PlayStation Store is the outlier here; IARC ratings are available on the Nintendo eShop, Google Play, Oculus Store and Microsoft's marketplace.