Soleron on 06 June 2009
| Wonktonodi said: So if you got rid of the governments ratings what would stop a kid from buying a game he shouldn't. It's not like kids don't have money and can't go to stores on their own. The rating can help make a line to when someone can't buy something without the parents. Making it so the parents are the ones making the decisions |
Trying to protect kids from this stuff is impossible anyway. Ratings just impede the freedom to access content and don't protect anyone. Where's the evidence they reduce the number of kids seeing inappropriate content, or that restricting access reduces real-world crime? Until both of those are shown there should be no rating system other than None/R. And even then I'd only put the R in to appease the public - ideally I'd have no ratings at all.
@amp316: To place a game in R it would have to meet the criteria of explicit depiction of sex. I can't see many games being called borderline.
