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- aaron.damyen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's good that some companies are going to make the parents responsible for being parents. That's right, if you're going to raise children, then you are responsible for them. Honestly, we need more mechanisms for allowing control of different parts of games and less censorship of the entire game. We should look at the security world, it's already pioneering the technology that can be applied in the game industry.
- blubolt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Hal-A-freakin-luja!!! I am one of those parents who just happens to be able to check my damn email.
"As if. Parents will simply give the console to the kids on Christmas morning and let them set it up. Today's parents can barely check their own e-mail, let alone find their voicemail on their cellphones."
I would appreciate it if you didn't genralize all of us into your narrow view of the world around you. Maybe YOUR parents can't check their email. I welcome the opportunity to decide what my kids see and don't see in the games we play. I routinley check the setting of what they can view on Television as well. What pisses me off is when I DON'T have that choice in a game. I wish ALL game developers were sensitive to the needs of families who are interested in choosing what they are or arent exposed to. - gronne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Is the blood really the part to be worried about? What about the actions the kid is imitating that would make a person or thing bleed?
- thewebguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1before ppl flame this as censorship or something, think for a second. this is actually a good thing -- this puts responsibility in the parents' hands instead of the game makers.
if parents choose not to read the manual on the expensive ass console they buy their children and don't put any protection, they have chosen not to be responsible. - abeg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1easy just press: A, B, A, C, A, B, B
- jmank88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1OK... So now the 8 year olds can still slash cops with a chain-saw in GTA, but dont worry! The cops won't bleed, they will just dissapear. Yeah, thats great, let's teach little kids that there are no consequences to beating the crap out of someone, or shooting them, its just fun!
-jordan - aiwha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So it's okay for kids to beat the ***** out of someone, but not all right for them to see the consequence?
- GuitaristTom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1um drunkjack, censor means to examine something and remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material...'ship is a suffix making a verb become a noun...official doesnt have to be part of it, no matter what your dictionary might say
for example, billy censored the movie he had downloaded by adding black bars in adobe premiere - grayapple, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So this will save millions of parents from getting off their asses and doing their own research?
- mikeazorin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think no blood is a terrible way to censor games. If a kid sees a fighting game with no blood, they might think the actions in the game won't hurt anybody, and might try it themselves. Blood is a symbol in video games that means DO NOT ATTEMPT AT HOME, and has a purpose.
- vernsan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So when is a law coming out that makes parents(guardians) responsible for the censorship and not the big companies before sueing?
"As if. Parents will simply give the console to the kids on Christmas morning and let them set it up. Today's parents can barely check their own e-mail, let alone find their voicemail on their cellphones."
HOW TRUE IS THAT!!?!? yep very true... - Vortech89, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This sounds like a good idea. Although I'd rather see the parental controls block certain aspects of the games themselves rather than the actual game.
- Protoss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This won't work...anyone remember the censorship on the PS2? It had a default password. Sony always has a workaround :P
- Elranzer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Figures that the queen of the RIAA and MPAA (Sony) would put this sorta thing in their new system.
- XsolidusX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think this is great. Now Jack Thompson can shut his trap. And kids can simply change the codes, and throw the manual away on Christmas.
- ajb2015, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Assuming parents are actually smart enough to know how to set it or know it exists in the first place.
- IraqManiac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0who cares is this not already possible?
- teamparadox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yes this feature is on the current Xbox, and it will be slightly beefed up and far easier to use for Parents on the 360.
- brucebeh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"As if. Parents will simply give the console to the kids on Christmas morning and let them set it up. Today's parents can barely check their own e-mail, let alone find their voicemail on their cellphones."
Lol! exactly my thoughts!! - RevnCliffie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Doubt it would lower them, probably have levels of "maturity" that the system would allow through. Might take the blood out of one game or make others, off limits. No more borrowing your friend Timmy's GTA.
- TBM1748, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Would this possibly lower the ratings on the games somehow?
- matx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wonder if a hard reset will remove the parental settings???
- nymphetamine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0good idea, but there will always be a way around this.
- Incognito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The parents will sue and complain the stress of parenting their kids has shortened their attention spans.
- DEIx15x8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow, thats not going to do anything. It's like the grandparent that is alright with buying her 12 year old grandson GTA but isn't alright with having hidden data on the disk. No parent anymore cares about anything let alone takes the time to go through those options anyway.
- ultimate_ed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It definitely bugs me to see these 6-18 yr olds that are just totally wild and out of control. I don't understand how all these parents can just let them run free like that.
The job of a parent is to set the bounds for the children. I'm glad to see Sony and Microsoft putting features like this in so we can try to do our jobs as parents. - narunet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"As if. Parents will simply give the console to the kids on Christmas morning and let them set it up. Today's parents can barely check their own e-mail, let alone find their voicemail on their cellphones."
Yep, my mom all ways bitches to me: "How in the hell do I check my Voice Mail!?" - MightyGiant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Uggh, this isn't the answer. The answer lies in the parents' hands. It's the parents' fault that their raising a killing machine. These game with blood are rated "Mature" for a reason. If your kid is too stupid to understand that it's just a video game then he shouldn't be playing mature games.
- Itaintrite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"where did the blood go"?
That'd only be possible if the games supported parental control themselves. More likely, the kids will go 'why za #$%@ aint this game loading? #%@^ zat'
In any case, this is a good thing. - Tobey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Hopefully this means less drama for games like GTA's San Andreas and its Hot Coffee mode."
Haha, good one. - desertcoyote, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0MAYBE.. and I do stress MAYBE, this feature will allow parents to see what their kids are actually playing (yeah right). Still I think it's a great argument in the future, "Well you can try to sue me because I made the game, but you parents have the tools to control what your kids play on the console."
Besides, the whole argument that games cause r/l violence is silly. - Drahknon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"OK... So now the 8 year olds can still slash cops with a chain-saw in GTA, but dont worry! The cops won't bleed, they will just dissapear."
Where is the evidence that multitudes of children can't tell the difference between reality and what they do in a game? - TBM1748, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I guess that will make it harder to get around
- Drahknon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Censorship is definied as:
The practice of OFFICIALLY examining books, movies, etc., and suppressing unacceptable parts : details of the visit were subject to military censorship."
But that's rather mincing of you, isn't it? The OED notes that one potenail meaning includes private actors as well.
Anyway, didn't the current generation of consoles have this feature, too. I seem to remember it being an option on the Xbox, at least. - Abyss_908, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well it's only too bad for Sony that todays parents either don't care, their kids can hack all parental controls, or the 3rd thing that happens is that they will have to ask their kids to help them because they don't know what they are doing lol.
- tehLazyPirate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0if your over 16, and for sure 18, u shouldnt care about this. mainly because your parents are probably not going to know how to use the feature... w/e tho... i just want to hear a price for the ps3...
- vertigoblue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0nice! @ the blood code for mortal combat...
- Dragular, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"I think no blood is a terrible way to censor games."
Ditto'd. That's what always got me with the MK games... apparently nobody had a problem with anyone bashing another persons head in, but oh my god if that person bleeds while you're doing it its the end of the world! Or, God Forbid, you let the kids see Sub Zero ripping heads off of other fighters with the spinal cord attached. Anyone know the figures on how many kids and teens went on ripping-heads-off-of-torsos sprees? - zdlatham, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0strickly speaking, it isn't censorship unless it is a government led effort. The first amendment restricts congress from limiting speech. Not your parents.
- Lionhart, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0owned kiddies. o/
- wizpig64, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0they might have to change the esrb ratings because of this. if a parent has his kids ps3to not allow blood and cursing, the rating would be completely different for a game
- phatpat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sounds good to me. I hope they make it easy for the parents to use. Anything that gives the parents control, and possible some incentive for the government not to take control is good news to me.
- lws07, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hopefully this means less drama for games like GTA's San Andreas and it's Hot Coffee mode.
- GuitaristTom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"itl be like starting up windows for the first time!"
oh, you mean that feeling that theres something much better out there - TimmyK., on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There is nothing wrong with this. It puts the responsibility right where it belongs, with the parents. How can they complain when they have control of what their kids see? Oh wait they already do that, because they complain about what their kids are playing even though there are ratings plastered all over every game box.
- ashtonium, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0arguably, "turning off the blood" could be considered worse for kids... sets the president that doing certain things *won't* hurt the person, because when they did it in the video game, the wasn't even any blood.
- puttly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0itl be like starting up windows for the first time!
- 4ZN-1NV4ZN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0thank god for tech challenged rents
- dylanA, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0As if. Parents will simply give the console to the kids on Christmas morning and let them set it up. Today's parents can barely check their own e-mail, let alone find their voicemail on their cellphones.
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you got that right - republicoftexas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Kids don't have any rights, so what?
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