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| Acmlm's Board - I2 Archive - General Gaming - M-rating Might be Set to 18+ |
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Anya The Exile Ultima Mezcla de Yin Yan Level: 98  Posts: 4640/5337 EXP: 9530313 For next: 124040 Since: 03-15-04 From: South Florida Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 2 days |
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| I've heard news/rumors that the ESRB plans to make the M-rated games, go up by one year. Instead of being 17+ to buy an M game, you're going to have to be 18+ to buy one. Honestly, if one year going to make that big of a difference? And this is going to be put more pressure on us (those who actually sell the games), because we already get beef from kids who want to buy M games, or parents who have to actually walk into the store to see and know what their child is buying. Some cases its good, especially for those understanding parents, who already know about the game, and who don't mind us telling them about it (its our job, and if a cop, or someone from the esrb walks in and we don't say that, we get fired). Then we have those who don't care what their kid is buying and get mad when they have to walk a few extra feet into the store to be there when the kid buys the games. And then you have the clueless folk. Like yesterday....the father comes in, asking for a game called GTA. I ask him which game in the series, and he didn't know. Then I asked him how old his child was, and he told us that it was for his ten year old daughter. He had no clue to what the game intails, and we had to tell him about the esrb raitings. He was happy to learn of this. And then you have these punk ass kids who will trash a store because they can't buy a M game. Yea, talk about the lack of respect these days, huh? Anyway, lets end this rant...what do you think about the esrb trying to make the M games on year higher? |
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Sokarhacd Ball and Chain Trooper Resistance is Futile You Will Be Assimilated Hab SoSlI' Quch Level: 61  Posts: 1136/1757 EXP: 1799888 For next: 76708 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 4 hours |
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| doesnt matter, where I live, they really dont care, but even though, one time I got asked, and they said I needed to be 18...so maybe here it is 18 already...but wal mart doesnt care, futureshop doesnt, neither do most other stores.. | |||
DahrkDaiz Red Super Koopa  Acmlm's Mosts 2005 Best ROM Hacker Level: 45  Posts: 605/885 EXP: 643520 For next: 16644 Since: 03-15-04 From: K-Town Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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| Quite honestly, I'm lgad the ESRB rating is going up. Why? I don't think video games will influence every child to the point of them wanting to emulate what they see. But ESRB ratings aren't a form of explicity censoring. It's just a rating to infrom parents, so legit adults can still get their gorey, sexy, profane fill in their copy of GTA or Doom 3. If the ESRB jumps the age up by one year, that's fine with me, as long as I still can get what I want uncensored. |
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Kirbynite Vire Holy Cucco! Level: 55 Posts: 929/1366 EXP: 1233975 For next: 80214 Since: 03-15-04 From: On some floating island, Earth Since last post: 14 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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| ... you had to be 17? Wow.. here I always thought it was 18... Anyways... it doesn't make much of a difference. It's just another one of those "being an adult" privileges. I doubt it's gonna increase the stressload for people who sell games since I'm sure the kids who cause trouble or the kids with the non-caring parents are still gonna be too young for those M games. By the time one of those kids reach 17, I'm sure he or she would either grow up or have a fake id  I also doubt that it'd change the attitudes of those who sell games. If they don't care who they're selling to, they're gonna continue not caring. If they do care, they're just gonna stick with the way they do it. *nod nod* Personally, I don't care about it. *scratches chin* Come to think of it.. working in a game shbp doesn't sound too different than working in a liquor store... |
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Alastor the Stylish Hey! I made a cool game! It's called "I poisoned half the food, so if you eat you might die!" Have a taco.  Level: 114  Posts: 5834/7620 EXP: 16258468 For next: 51099 Since: 03-15-04 From: Oregon, US Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Originally posted by KirbyniteCongratulations, you win the most depressing post of the month award. |
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Tamarin Calanis We exist. Earth exists. The universe exists. Do we really need to know why? Level: 59 Posts: 437/1802 EXP: 1672751 For next: 377 Since: 07-12-04 From: The gas station on the corner... Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 5 hours |
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| I've always thought that if parents paid more attention, there'd be no need to have these ratings, but that's a rant for another day. It makes sense to raise it (or lower it) a year, though. I can't think of anything else that you have to be seventeen for. A few things, like driver's licenses (dammit, how the HELL do you spell that?) require you to be 16 in most states, and a few other things require you to be 18... but not seventeen. Of course, it doesn't affect me anyway. I've been playing Doom since I was... 12, I think. My mom clearly doesn't care what I play, since I know the difference between reality and videogames. ... and don't ask why I spelled seventeen out while writing 16 and 18 as numbers. |
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Colleen Administrator Level: 136 Posts: 7869/11302 EXP: 29369328 For next: 727587 Since: 03-15-04 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| I haven't heard anything about it, but 17, 18... what's the big deal? I think it's fine as-is at 17, because then the Adults Only (AO) rating, which is 18+, goes right out the window. (Why have two ratings meaning the same thing?) | |||
Kario In Possession of a Stolen Shovel Level: 65 Posts: 1793/2082 EXP: 2321379 For next: 14249 Since: 03-15-04 From: Texas... Yeehaw! Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 17 hours |
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| They would probably do away with the AO rating as that wouldnt make any sense. Rating doesnt matter to me, I am 19 so whoopdeedoo either way. Honestly I dont think there should be an age limit to any rating, just have the rating so caring parents will know. If a 12 year old wants a MA game, they will get it one way or the other. |
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O.G. Metal axe Level: 22  Posts: 47/169 EXP: 53507 For next: 4843 Since: 03-19-04 Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 2 days |
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The people at game crazy dont care about the ratings, probably becuase im cool or something  |
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PeterGriffinTheMan Deddorokku Level: 29  Posts: 76/425 EXP: 137018 For next: 10867 Since: 03-02-05 Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 6 hours |
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| Wow one year apart who cares just leave it as it is. | |||
alte Hexe Star Mario I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night Alive as you and me "But Joe you're ten years dead!" "I never died" said he "I never died!" said he Level: 99  Posts: 3602/5458 EXP: 9854489 For next: 145511 Since: 03-15-04 From: ... Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| I simply think it should be manditory that people that cannot present ID to prove that they are 14 and up shouldn't be allowed to purchase video games, without a consenting adult with them. Still easy as all sin to get around, but regardless it makes it alot harder to fool folks. Because really, in the mid 90s this wasn't as big a problem. But we have Manhunt and GTA to contend with now. Games that can be seriously depraved. Kids shouldn't be allowed to play these games. | |||
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cpubasic13 17 years old now. Time to buy some M rated games by myself! Level: 54  Posts: 951/1346 EXP: 1206934 For next: 26936 Since: 03-15-04 From: Blame my parents, Eddy Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 1 day |
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| ...they better not. I hate having my brother or mom have to buy the game for me because I am sixteen (like what happened when I got Timesplitters: Future Perfect. Stupid ol' Wal-Mart employee). When I am seventeen, I will be happy that I don't have to rely on anyone to buy games... ...unless they up the rating. That would suck... Sure, some mature games are really bad, but if you can trust the kids, let them get it. I have been playing mature games since I was less than ten and I don't want to go kill people in the open. It is how the kids take information is why video game violence is being blamed. I also heard that the ESRB is planning on making a rating for between T and M, saying that T is PG and M is R. They need a PG-13 rating for it to be perfect. *looks at a T rated game* Oh look, it says "Ages 13+". Sounds very much like PG-13 to me. |
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Cruel Justice XD Level: 55  Posts: 809/1384 EXP: 1253266 For next: 60923 Since: 03-20-04 From: Darkwoods Penetentiary Since last post: 11 hours Last activity: 7 hours |
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Onos! Won't effect me much either way. Already 18 biatches!  But seriously, it's god-damned ridiculous. There's already enough 8-year old kids and their moms playing Vice City. They'll have better luck selling Mature-rated games in a porn store just to keep the little ones away. But they'd bellyache their pops for them so there's really no point. |
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Colleen Administrator Level: 136 Posts: 7871/11302 EXP: 29369328 For next: 727587 Since: 03-15-04 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| You have to keep the AO rating since that's the only way to distinguish between "Mature" games and pornfests. :\ That employee wasn't stupid - he was just doing his job, and he might have been the ONLY guy at Wal-Mart who was doing it.  Still, it was the right move *given* what the law says. |
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Lord Rahl Snap Dragon Level: 43  Posts: 738/792 EXP: 544657 For next: 20389 Since: 03-15-04 From: Temple of the Winds - Training Room Since last post: 43 days Last activity: 7 days |
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| On a side note, as far as I know, there has never been a game rated AO. | |||
Kitten Yiffer Purple wand Furry moderator Vivent l'exp����¯�¿�½������©rience de signalisation d'amusement, ou bien ! Level: 135 Posts: 9304/11162 EXP: 28824106 For next: 510899 Since: 03-15-04 From: Sweden Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 4 min. |
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| There is alot of AO games Lord Rahl, most of thoose just are... porn games. :/ We never had a 17+ rating in Europa. Our current Pegi rating have 3+ 7+ 12+ 16+ and 18+, and then markers if the game contains Violence, Sex, Drugs, Bad Language, fear and Discrimination. (edited by Kitten Yiffer on 04-13-05 10:08 PM) |
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Apophis Red Super Koopa Level: 45 Posts: 465/882 EXP: 640255 For next: 19909 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 15 hours Last activity: 15 hours |
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Originally posted by Lord Rahl There are. They're generally made by companies like Jast & Peach Princess and feature anime-style porn. Edit: Oops. I missed the first sentence of Kitten Yiffer's post. (edited by Apophis on 04-14-05 03:03 AM) |
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Ran-chan Moldorm eek, when are they going to stop growing... Level: 143  Posts: 9037/12781 EXP: 35293588 For next: 538220 Since: 03-15-04 From: Nerima District, Tokyo - Japan Since last post: 12 hours Last activity: 12 hours |
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| Jast USA, huh? I know about those.I don | |||
Seph2k4 Bob-Omb Level: 39 Posts: 548/619 EXP: 376086 For next: 28685 Since: 03-16-04 Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 6 days |
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| That would suck if they did since I just (very recently) turned 17. It would be like this: I obtain my privalege to buy any game I want without an accompanying parent... for merely a couple of months. Then that privalege goes out the window, and I have to wait yet another year to gain it back. Anyway, an "up" rating would only indicate that somehow ALL M-rated games are sex n' porno games, even nill violent games like Halo/Halo 2. Sorry, sex AND violence, for the most part, just don't mix when it comes to gaming. There might be some over-the-top M games like GTA or Getaway containing both, but usually it's rated such for one or the other (AO if it's a pornographic sex-fest). |
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Lord Rahl Snap Dragon Level: 43 Posts: 740/792 EXP: 544657 For next: 20389 Since: 03-15-04 From: Temple of the Winds - Training Room Since last post: 43 days Last activity: 7 days |
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| My bad, I worded that wrong. I meant any console games rated AO. Although as I look at my 4 h-games, I see no ESRB rating on them. |
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