ESRB Ratings

[MDMAlliance]

IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

MDMAlliance said:

Here's what he says: _______ said, pretending that ESRB ratings ever stopped anyone from playing a game. Or parents from buying them for their kids.

All I did was say that putting giant penises on characters in a game would achieve it a rating of AO.

I start talking about AO ratings, not M ratings until he brings up GTA.  He later says this: Holy shit bro. Naked phallus stops no one from buying. Get over it

ESRB's ratings regarding male nudity have proven to matter shit in terms of sales. You were claiming that wasn't true, right?

Kids request it BECAUSE of the rating. Parents buy it to shut the kid up. Game sales. An AO, which would not necessarily happen, helps.

The guy then goes to compare male genitalia to boobs in games.

Well, he is clearly a moron judging by his attitude and generalizations. It is obvious that there are parents who won't let their kids buy AO games (mine included back in the day), which he appears not to understand. However, the question is whether enough people are attracted to the game to still make it sell more than it otherwise would have done, and my answer/belief would still be yes.

Unless, again, the AO rating makes a lot of retailers avoid selling the game, which I personally have not seen happening.

I argue that there are a lot of factors that come into play, and that the ESRB rating being anything besides being for everyone is a potential limiter.  How much so depends on many things, but I definitely don't think one can make a good argument to say that an AO rating would actually help sales.