| MonstaMack said: I don't understand this anyways. When I ring up someone up at a register it asks if they are 17 to buy Red Dead Redemption - I card them and if they are under 17 I won't let them buy it. So what happens? They get their parents to buy the game, and if they mature/responsible/parent doesn't give a rat's ass they come back and buy the game with said parent. What will this law do? |
Yeah, I hear countless stories from people that work at Best Buy, Walmart, Gamestop, etc where a kid tries to buy an M rated game, the clerk says no, and then the mom pops in while on the cell phone for two seconds to tell the clerk to just sell it to him without having a clue what it is. I've even heard a good number of stories where the parent got mad that a clerk wouldn't sell an M rated game to someone obviously too young.
The rating isn't really the problem, it's very much just parents not paying attention. For parents that actually care to take interest in what their kids are doing, they would know there are very clear ratings detailing exactly what the game contains right on the box and very good parental controls on every console.
