Dead by Daylight - The ESRB & you

[Salty Sis' 4U]

If you're a literal child, you shouldn't be playing this game. Period.
It's rated M for mature, aka 17+ regardless of whether a parent is present or not.

Balancing the game around actual children is likewise a terrible idea.
This's a flat-out statement that I think we can all agree with.

[76561198318495615]

Age doesn't mean anything here since most adults are men children and behave worse than 13 year old teenagers.

[☆Hypn0tik☆]

Oh no the ESRB police are here, run!

[Salty Sis' 4U]

TFW people here legit trying to defend the idea of letting a ten year-old play DBD, even in violation of the ESRB.

I'm no Facebook mom, but I think y'all should really understand why this is a bad idea on many fronts.

[mamusca]

A kid will see this and just uninstall their paid game.

[Salty Sis' 4U]

Publicado originalmente por Tidinha:

A kid will see this and just uninstall their paid game.

I doubt it, but I really hope they would if it's their account.
If it's an older sibling's, there's no reason to uninstall... But they shouldn't be playing the game, all the same.

[Fantaken King]

in terms of content this game is actually pretty tame, no extreme forms of gore, little sexual appeal, and not that much strong language and im pretty sure there is zero in actual gameplay

[Duncan]

Go back to reddit

[Miles]

Publicado originalmente por Salty Sis' 4U:

TFW people here legit trying to defend the idea of letting a ten year-old play DBD, even in violation of the ESRB.

I'm no Facebook mom, but I think y'all should really understand why this is a bad idea on many fronts.

Honestly yeah I was in a discord group with a kid who was 12 and he was legit terrified of the killers and wanted the game to be made less scary so it'd be more enjoyable for him to play.

Publicado originalmente por »Křŷpŧix™:

Oh no the ESRB police are here, run!

If you read the OP you would see he's saying the game SHOULDN'T BE TAILORED to kids

[Dr. Squatch Guy]

The game shouldn't be targeting children but at the same time if the parent is fine with the kid playing it and they are mature then it does not matter.
I am 14 and play this all the time and you don't hear me complaining about it.

[Sairek Ceareste]

Publicado originalmente por Salty Sis' 4U:

TFW people here legit trying to defend the idea of letting a ten year-old play DBD, even in violation of the ESRB.

I'm no Facebook mom, but I think y'all should really understand why this is a bad idea on many fronts.

I'd rather kids play this game, then Fifa or 2K with contain actual gambling in them yet is somehow deemed "safe for children" while at the same time also implementing "parental controls" in the game that's allegedly, according to the ESRB, safe for children.

Maybe you should go after those games first, the ones that are not suitable for children, yet are actually targeting them and are literally trying to get them addicted to gambling to the point where they feel obliged to take their parents credit cards or even more tragically, don't realize they're spending real life money because they're not capable of comprehending what they are doing first and drain the family's entire savings.



I've consumed plenty of material that wasn't "suitable" for my young age by the way. I don't consider myself a messed up, damaged individual. The ESRB rating system is (or was) supposed to be a guide for parents to let them know what kind of material the game has at a quick glance, but it is solely up to the discretion of the parent what they do and don't give to their children.

This game may have senseless killing and death, yet I would tout that a game like Majora's Mask which is somehow E for ages 10+ is far more horrifying, tragic and haunting than this game is or ever will be. Majora's Mask is literally a game that not only taught, but showed me how horrifying and tragic coming to grips with one's own mortality is and how a number of people may react differently to it when their death is only hours away and there's nothing they can do to prevent it - and all because some sentient mask thinks it's just a game like it's Tag or Hide and Seek. A game where you hear about how child soldiers from a place called Ikanna were sent and forced into a war they could never win and died, and you can see their haunted skeletal bodies still wandering the graveyard, their spirits forever cursed to be trapped in that moment of time. Meanwhile, Link is just a kid himself and has to go through all of this trauma and he's the only one who can stop it.

Kinda horrifying and tragic, isn't it? Remember, this is a kid's game. Not even for teens. Ages 10+.
I played it at six years old. And I loved it. One of my favorite games of all time. The game's mysteries about the land, but the humanity in the characters in it inspired me to want to become a writer. At six years old. And I still continue that inspiration to this day.




...Then you have Dead by Daylight, a game that's rated M17, where you get a moon walking Michael Myers, the occasional head-banging Demogorgon and Ash from Evil Dead talking about pooping in tall grass for the 80th time. Oh yeah, and there's blood and hanging people on hooks.

Very spoopy indeed.

[Incariuz]

The game should never be balanced with children in mind, but... At the same time, age does not determine ones mental capacity or maturity, and therefor what children should be allowed to play should be decided on an individual basis. Problem is, too many people lack parenting skills, have horrible, immature, brainless dimwit children, and still let them play this and other games. To be fair though, there is a good chunk of the adult population that really isn't much better.

[Sairek Ceareste]

Publicado originalmente por Incariuz:

The game should never be balanced with children in mind, but... At the same time, age does not determine ones mental capacity or maturity, and therefor what children should be allowed to play should be decided on an individual basis. Problem is, too many people lack parenting skills, have horrible, immature, brainless dimwit children, and still let them play this and other games. To be fair though, there is a good chunk of the adult population that really isn't much better.

I still remember when I was watching my brother play BlazBlue online and my brother's opponent had their mic open (wasn't saying anything) and was kicking my brother's butt hand-over fist.
Then just after my brother loses badly and the match is over, we hear a woman's voice in the background of the mic saying "Do you want hotdogs for supper?" And we both just hear a very excited boy that sounds like he's only 7 or 8 years old just excitedly go "YEAH! Hotdogs!"


I never let my brother live that one down. Kid was damn good at the game though, lol.

[Incariuz]

Publicado originalmente por Sairek Ceareste:

Publicado originalmente por Incariuz:

The game should never be balanced with children in mind, but... At the same time, age does not determine ones mental capacity or maturity, and therefor what children should be allowed to play should be decided on an individual basis. Problem is, too many people lack parenting skills, have horrible, immature, brainless dimwit children, and still let them play this and other games. To be fair though, there is a good chunk of the adult population that really isn't much better.

I still remember when I was watching my brother play BlazBlue online and my brother's opponent had their mic open (wasn't saying anything) and was kicking my brother's butt hand-over fist.
Then just after my brother loses badly and the match is over, we hear a woman's voice in the background of the mic saying "Do you want hotdogs for supper?" And we both just hear a very excited boy that sounds like he's only 7 or 8 years old just excitedly go "YEAH! Hotdogs!"


I never let my brother live that one down. Kid was damn good at the game though, lol.

Lol, nice. I'm sure I have days where some kids would whoop me too, but... I'll use the excuse that I'm getting old. Makes me lose focus, and my eyes are going bad. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

xD

[Charles Patenaude]

Do any games even care about that? I don't recall any actually enforcing that ♥♥♥♥.

[armando]

no