Does not matter if you ID for a game or not...most the time the kid drags mom or dad in there and you ask the parent if they are ok with this M rated game and explain the content..the parent still says ok and forks over the ID.

ESP the Mexican kids with non english speaking parents(no not being racist here when I used to to work at that shitty corp gamestop this happened all the time) you would explain and the kid 'translated' to his parent..so they whipped out the card and you still have to sell it to them.

..even if the policy the person with the ID is the one who MUST pay for the game to try enforce this further didn't work.

Then there is the send big brother or sister in to buy it then big bro or sis hands the game over to little bro or sis as soon as they exit the store.

omg a smart politition-who'da thunk.

face it, IF this bill was signed- it would goto court and it WOULD have been declared unconstitional by the very reasons the gov. said.

NOT ONE- that i know of- law passed that regulates/fines games in the US has been found legal by the courts. and it cost millions of taxpayers dollars to find this out - each time.

the Gov of utah just saved the state hundreds of thousands-if not millions of dollars worth of legal fees.

i see your point. but i still believe this bill is a good thing. do you really believe that this will do any damage to the esrb? this is how the goverment works, they pass a bill then they add amendments to to it later. 

What's sad is that it's probably going to be overturned. At least we can still look for a potential unconstitutional ruling from the court.

there are some parents that do not want there kids to play these games. infact i didnt own 1 m rated game till i wa seventeen.

They've already amended the bill a few times and they'd probably do it some more. I don't know about damaging the ESRB itself, but it'll hurt the effectiveness of informing customers (such as parents) of the ratings. If hanging up a poster that lists the ESRB's ratings counts as advertising and the retailer takes it down to prevent the potential fine if they did ever sell an m-rated game to a minor, to what end has the bill benefitted parents with children?

I agree that certain games can be inappropriate for children to play, but so far none of the bills do have done any good. Especially when they're found to be unconstitutional. I've heard that the score is now video games - 7, lawmakers - 0.

Instead of somebody like Jack Thompson saying something useful such as "Violent video games can be inappropriate for children so parents, please check the rating on the box and instead choose a game that's more suitable for you're child. Retailers, please make sure to check for ID's when selling M-rated games" we instead get "I was on 60 minutes and wrote a book about this sort of thing, violent video games train people to murder others. They must be banned!"

YES! less 13 year on kids on the psn

one man can dream.

 While I'm am not in favor of censorship no one should have been subjected to the higly disturbing male full frontal in the lost and the damned.