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Nodaisho:

--- Quote from: Melodic on 14 Aug 2010, 22:02 ---i don't give a shiiiiiiiiiiiiit

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Thank you for giving me a reason to boycott E.A. again.

Johnny, it's shitty because it involves a bunch of rich old white men controlling access to something that they know nothing about. At all. It's the same as the 1985 P.M.R.C. hearings, except the PMRC never tried to actually make it illegal for children to buy albums they disliked, as far as I can recall (I have forgotten most of what I learned about them).

Melodic:
yr taking this rather srsly

a little too srsly

Scandanavian War Machine:
imagine the uproar if Arnold said "It's come to my attention that children can freely buy and read books that contain violence, sex, complex philosphical themes, and other things that I'm obligated to pretend to want to keep out of kids' hands; so I'm making an unconstitutional law against selling such books to kids!"

he'd be impeached in six months; but since it's vidya gayms it's all apathy and shoulder shrugging instead.

It needs to be taken seriously, because it's serious.


Then again, I don't see any way that it can possibly stick, so I guess I'm not taking it completely seriously either.

Alex C:

--- Quote from: jhocking on 15 Aug 2010, 09:34 ---Image of FPS games.

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I still get a li'l annoyed when people show that image given that Medal of Honor and Call of Duty games were made by a lot of the same people. It feels like taking a picture of Mortal Kombat 1 and Mortal Kombat 2 and saying "THIS IS THE WHOLE INDUSTRY GUISE!!!". Then again, I've never owned a Medal of Honor game, (real war settings make me uneasy) and I've never even played a Call of Duty game. But I do own a bunch of games that were rated far higher than they deserved or outright never released in the US primarily due to religious references, so I'll admit to living in my own weird sort of bubble that predisposes me towards viewing such legislation in the worst possible light.

Anyway, I think getting the government involved is a horrible idea since I'm not really a fan of giving them any more power than they already have and because I like ratings systems right up until they outright forbid things. I like leaving things up to parents and consumers and I'm quite happy to defend the right to make shitty decisions sometimes.

Scandanavian War Machine:
The current rating system is actually pretty awesome, and it actually works. The problem is that they're trying to fix a problem by changing something that's not really the issue.

It's like trying to fix a leaky faucet by draining the whole town's reservoir.

The problem is not the rating system, or that stores are selling the M games to kids (which they aren't). The problem is the parents. It's always the fucking parents. Not to say that some individual somewhere doesn't mess up from time to time and sell a Mature game to a kid, but those are almost certainly the very minor minority. I mean...I'm 23 and they card me every time I buy an M-rated game, even though they know me by now, and know that I"m plenty old enough. I find it hard to believe that those same people are absent-mindedly selling MW2 to 8th graders.

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