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Kasumi-Astra
Posts: 1058/1867 |
I've been IDd only once before, and that was for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
I understand where assistants come from, being one myself, but it is nonetheless frustrating when it happens.
Chad works for the same store now, so whenever I buy any games, it'll be from her. The last 18 rated game I bought was Duke Nukem 3d for the Sega Saturn.
If anyone has any comments about that game, it's miles better than Quake and has Deathtank on it to boot. Well worth buying!
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windwaker
Posts: 982/1797 |
Originally posted by Anya
And then I would laugh at you and tell you to grow up.  Oh wait...you're still under 17, so really, you shouldn't grow up yet. 
Hey, bitch all you want, I'm not going to lose my job (or worse) because underage kids want to buy these games. I don't like the system, but I have to follow it.
I'm 20. Thanks for being discredible though .
And secondly, you could lose your job from not telling a mother that GTA A is innappropriate for children?  You really aren't breaking the law by doing nothing at all  . |
Valentine Revolution
Posts: 189/199 |
Parents get really really annoyed when I ID their kids though. This kid tried to buy San Andreas off me and I IDed him. His mom came up and started bitching at me. I tell the whole 'I'm just doing my job' thing, she just gives me the money and says 'Whats the big deal, he's nearly sixteen anyway.' Yeah.... but the game's an 18, so I was fucking right.
The number of parents who come in and say 'Oh well he's seen it all before' just boggles me, since I know damn well they're letting their 6/7/8 year old kids play these games.
Where I work, you can be any age to trade in, but you have to be over 16 with proper ID to get cash. |
Holy Knight
Posts: 75/107 |
A whiny kid wouldn't do anything but probably make it worse. Bribery by the truck load would solve that. |
alte Hexe
Posts: 2379/5458 |
I'd turn into the Hulk if she did that to me! |
Anya
Posts: 3846/5337 |
And then I would laugh at you and tell you to grow up. Oh wait...you're still under 17, so really, you shouldn't grow up yet.
Hey, bitch all you want, I'm not going to lose my job (or worse) because underage kids want to buy these games. I don't like the system, but I have to follow it. |
windwaker
Posts: 959/1797 |
OMG Anya, I would totally bitch at you if I wasn't old enough to buy it myself  . |
Anya
Posts: 3836/5337 |
We have to ask the parent if its okay if their child can buy an M rated game and most say yes, that they know their child so well.
But then, take this example.
GTA: San Andreas comes out and its popular, even by those who have no clue what it really is. I had these two kids, maybe around 12 or so, who wanted the game. Their mother was with them, and I told them what the game has in. Now, all she was told was that it was a "racing game", which, if you know the game, it does has some racing to it, but that's not the whole story. So when I told her, she was shocked and the kids couldn't get the game.
Now to trade in games at my store, doesn't matter the age, but I think we should start. Some cases, we'll get someone who is underage, who will trade in games that either isn't their's, or their siblings stuff. Then we get these angry parents that come in and tell us what their son/daughter has done. But then again, shouldn't the kids have known better due to their parents job on raising them right? But whatcha gonna do? |
alte Hexe
Posts: 2352/5458 |
I personally think there should be a strict carding system. I don't want an 8 year old playing god damned M rated games. |
Colin
Posts: 6112/11302 |
Well, if you're stupid enough to ask other people IN THE STORE to buy the game for you...  Oy.
If the parent(s) feels that the child's mature enough to play the game, then go ahead and buy it for him/her. Otherwise, T.S. |
oniblade
Posts: 165/183 |
I was in at gamecrazy this weekend trading in games, and your supposed to be 18 to trade in, and he didnt ask me for my age, and when i got "The Suffering", he didnt ask for an ID, not that im complaining or anything... |
Anya
Posts: 3834/5337 |
They are trying to pass a law where if someone sells an M rated game to a minor, that person who sold them the game can get into major trouble (it almost feels like when kids need to get carded for booze) and I'm not going to go to jail because sonme punk ass kid can't get his/her parent to come in and get the game. Besides, its fun to card them, especially when you KNOW that they are younger. Had a few kids that were 14 trying to get GTA San Andreas. I see them in the store with the box and I laugh to myslef, knowing that I'm about to ruin their day.  And then when I tell them that they need an ID or a parent, while in the store, they ask older kids/adults to get the game for them! Ah, what a scene.
And no, I've never been carded because we didn't have this crap when I was younger. We didn't blame our faults and killing sprees on video games. |
Scatterheart
Posts: 51/342 |
Whining bastards!!!
Nah, never have been here. |
Colin
Posts: 6054/11302 |
Yeah, but it all depends on where you are in the world. Some games have had special versions released in Australia to conform with standards.
Canada, as far as I know, just follows the standard ESRB rating. |
Ailure
Posts: 7126/11162 |
Man, we gotta do have a slack censoring in Sweden then. You can almost show anything on public TV, expect for porn.
Germany is funny, I heard that some games are changed around. Like the orginal German CnC and Red alert they replaced the soldiers with humanois robots. They look like robots falling apart as death sequences. |
Colin
Posts: 6048/11302 |
I think Australia has the strictest video game rating board around - for those of you who don't know, if the game breaks any of their taboos, it's banned. Same for movies/etc. |
KawaiiImoto-e
Posts: 591/1068 |
The PEGI-Rating, seen on european games, will be binding in Switzerland from 1st of February. The German FSK too, if no PEGI is present.
And about GTA San Andreas, we had to import the cut 16age German Version, 'cause some customers wanted them, but our distributor didn't have them. so the cut down version is more expensive (99.- compared to 94.90, Prices in Swiss Francs inkl. 7.6% VAT). |
Valentine Revolution
Posts: 188/199 |
Well I don't know how the US system works, but over here all games have an 'advised' age on them, as a store we don't have to stick with that but we can't really sell 16+ games to a 12 year old, but its not illegal for us to do so. Some games however, like Manhunt and GTA, have BBFC ratings, which are legally binding. If I sold GTA to someone under 18, I could get fined up to |
HyperLamer
Posts: 2825/8210 |
Sure, it makes sense, but it's kinda annoying when your parents don't want to come with you to buy a game.  |
Kario
Posts: 1104/2082 |
I voted yes. I went to GameStop, was buying a used game. They asked me if I had a gamestop card.
Damn carding people. |
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