rca.snm-hgkz.ch — Politicians and the media are quick to blame video games for everything, especially youth violence, and now they cry for legislation to ban violent games. But here's the news: Games come with age and content ratings. Here's more news: It takes you, the parents, to enforce them. Please face your responsibilities instead of dumping them on the state.
Feb 13, 2007 View in Crawl 4
praxFeb 14, 2007
When the video game industry is forced to take the ratings seriously politicians might stop threatening to ban games.Yes, parents share the blame. They are responsible for what their kids play at home.But the stores shouldn't sell M-rated games to minors and should explain the ratings to parents clearly. And video game publishers should stop marketing M-rated titles to minors.No one group shoulders the full responsibility here. If everyone acted responsible.. we'd all be better off.
ts8lemonadeFeb 14, 2007
You want to know what's f**king retarded? I work at Gamestop (please don't hate me) and we are now enforcing a new policy regarding M-rated games. Basically, ANYONE who buys an M-rated game needs to provide a valid license and we have to put your name, ID number, and birthday into a log book. While this doesn't seem so bad, it is most definitely is. Think of days when we will have hundreds of transactions for M-rated games, like God of War 2, Halo 3, etc. So while there is a 20 person line we have to sit there and log information on all customers. Legislation has really gotten out of hand for laws concerning video games.
danielman94Feb 15, 2007
Hrmm, wasn't Hillary the one who had that little anti-video-game dinner? The one that you had to pay like 1000 bucks for? I have nothing against Obama, though.
lavahotFeb 15, 2007
1337 diggs, man. I'll make it 1338.
p4cmanFeb 15, 2007
i personally dont believe in all the hype that video games can greatly influence people in real-world actions. I've been playing violent videogames [counterstrike, tribes, metal gear, tekken/mortal kombat] since i was, like , 8 years old. So far, I haven't found any need to direct such violence in the real world. I agree, it is the responsibility of parents to influence the way their kids act, but not in the sense that we should stick to ESRB or PEGI ratings; rather, kids can play violent videogames; parents should just supervise them. in the line of sexuality, I don't know a whole lot about that, but books and movies can go far more violent and sexual than popular games generally do.
praxFeb 23, 2007
There is no difference.
praxFeb 23, 2007
What goes in is what comes out.'nuf said.
Closed AccountJun 5, 2007
The obvious question is maturity and not age.Also, games never actually cause people to kill someone.I agree kids who have not yet reached puberty shoud be allowed to play games with extreme violence and nudity, but i believe it is perfectly fine for a teenage who has been maturely taught to be against the immoral nature of murder and excessive nudity to play these types of games.Many studies have revealed that videos games can increase our thought process and allow us to think on our feet. In fact, many engineering websites encourage people to play videos games. They teach us to solve problems and learn to teach ourselves.
cahill4554Jun 30, 2007
Well, personally, I think that this whole video game rating crap is a load of s**t. Being 15, I know that I have seen much more "mature" content than they could possibly ever pack into one video game, and yet they restrict me from buying Saint's Row everywhere. Its complete bull. I don't think that by playing any game that I'll steal cars or shoot everyone I see on the street. I'm getting all of my killing done in a video game instead of in real life. There are way more people who are getting away with smoking pot and underage drinking that the gov. should not be worrying about stupid video games.
macabredelvalJan 30, 2009
banning video games doesnt even make sense, if we ban them, why ot ban all other violent things? wait, why not just bann EVERYTING EXCEPT TELETUBBIES AND RAINBOWS? its BS!