Quake Wars gets Teen rating

(Kittie) #41

yep thats so they can try to sue the company when their kid goes retarded and kills ppl GTA style when its really from neglect and being babysitted by video games so their parents dont have to do anything, because its quite obvious they dont know the difference between real and fake

(murka) #42

well it was fun playing half life 1 as a 7 year old but that kind of fear might really kill some soft-minded person and he just jumps out and pops everything he sees and then shouts “woo, my acc is better that urs, my KDR is now 10/0.”

(Kittie) #43

people that “soft minded” should be drown in a pool of jello…

(Flesh) #44

yep thats so they can try to sue the company when their kid goes retarded and kills ppl GTA style when its really from neglect and being babysitted by video games so their parents dont have to do anything, because its quite obvious they dont know the difference between real and fake[/quote]

Actualy the case is exactly the opposite.
I’m not shure if its the correct expresion, but this esrb rateing system is actualy a kind of release from liability.

If, for instance, QW got a “mature” rateing and some kid went “berserk” while playing Quake Wars (they could say he tried to extract stroyent from his younger brother :slight_smile: his parents might consider sueing Splash Damage for makeing such an “obscene” piece of software. But since the game was rated “mature” and the kid was still allowed to play it then it was no fault of SD that he went balistic with a syringe.
It could be the fault of the irresponsible parents who let their underage
children use mature rated content or the fault of the salesman who sold the M rated game to a minor in the firist place.

Furthermore politicans may try to point out this incident and attack video
game industry as a part of their election campain. But, again, rateing system stops this becouse they cannot blame video game industry since there is an esrb warning that comes out with every game saying that children are not supposed to view this content.

So, in fact, esrb rateing is very useful just not to us, the actual users, but
to the entertainment industry as a whole.

(Kittie) #45

i said TRY :wink:
they really arent all that effective given the fact that most “kid” games still have some sort of violence where if someone really wanted to argue about their kid going mental they probably could… but wouldnt be probable if you ask me. but just stating that people still try like they tried to sue rockstar for gta. but life goes on :stuck_out_tongue:

(kamikazee) #46

Sometimes one would start to think of America as “sue first, ask questions later”. :smiley:

(jaybird) #47

Unfortunately, that’s really becoming the reality of things.

(murka) #48

im suing you cuz i wasted too much playing jaymod xD