NY Times don't understand the AO rating.

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Narfer said:

StarcraftManiac said:

Pfff... ESRB = a bunch of poosies!... They stated that they DIDN'T EVEN PLAY THE GAME!

For god sake... How on earth can u rate a game if u haven't played it?! The most pathetic acting i've seen in the last years!... Screw ESRB... Rockstar/Take2 PUBLISH THE GAME!

I thought that was how ESRB ratings worked though? The game companies send in footage of the most graphic, suggested, and strong language parts of the game. Because I guess it just takes one AO (or M) scene to give the game that rating, making playing it, in a way, unnecesarily.

omg you guys DONT know how the ESRB rates games...

1. Publisher sends copy of product to ESRB to be rated.
2. ESRB pulls people off the street to reviews the game while someone plays it.
3. the scores the reviewers are averaged then measured up to a chart.
4. Based on reviewer averaged scores games are given a rating.

 that is how the ESRB does their ratings. if a game gets an AO its because the group rating the game disagreed with the content and marked it high in their personal ratings causing the average to be high.