| Krasnaya Yastreb said: Would I be naïve if I said that the people who won’t buy M rated games because of this…probably aren’t really the target audience of these games anyway? |
Therein lies the problem. I don't have a study or numbers, but a very large portion of M rated games are sold to the under 18 market. It's like tabacco and alcohol sales. They make a huge number of sales to the underage crowd. Thus alcohol companies and tabacco companies never had a strong reason to prohibit sales to this group until federal laws made penalties too large to ignore.
That's what people are worried about. Now 14 year old Bobby can't buy my favorite M rated game. Thus, less M rated games are made. I don't really think people can be that upset about buying a game that has a cover. Honestly all of Walmart's cases are locked anyway. There is no way to avoid talking to clerk, so this doesn't require anymore effort to obtain the game. Unless you are under 18.
