Rating Raised to 17+

[WaterlooRegion]

As much as I understand concerns about raising the rating in regards to introducing violent scenarios into the game, if your goal is realistic policing, then you're going to fail if you refuse to budge. Subject matter involving policing is not fit for people who are 13. The things that officers experience in real life scar grown men and women for years afterwards, I'm not asking you to traumatize your player base, but be realistic about the nature of this job and your intended audience

Truth of the matter is guys, cops don't just write tickets and deal with compliant people all day, they're not always just showing up after things have happened where everybody ends up being okay after the ambulance is called. People get hurt, people get shot, people get stabbed, people use drugs and threaten to kill themselves. So in no way shape or form should this game have been rated for people as young as 13.

You're getting the complaints that you're getting now about the boringness and the uselessness of having a pistol because you catered to children. Who is your intended audience? Is it little kids who want to be a cop in the Caillou Universe? Or is it people who are genuinely interested in law enforcement, because if that's the case then you have a unique opportunity to prepare them for some of the things that they might face once they take that leap in a dangerous and potentially life-threatening career

There's two sayings in law enforcement that are as old as time. 1. It's like a front row seat to the best show in the world, and 2 it's long periods of boredom broken up by spurts of terror. If you don't think you're capable of living up to that, then stop everything you're doing right now and quit. If you don't legitimately believe that you can make this game live up to those two statements, then stop wasting your time

On a quick side note, Grand Theft Auto has been marked 17 plus and rated Mature for 13 years, and not 30% of the people playing it are of age. So can we maybe get real about how much that actually matters?

[sowillwe]

don't care about the rating specifically, but the game definitely needs basically every possible feature mentioned in this post.

[Mytrix]

The devs have been so involved with the community on this game, on a level I've rarely seen, they should be asking the community what we want on this particular matter, pretty sure the vast majority of the community wouldn't mind the game to become +17 rating at all.

[Atova]

They should fix the bugs with stuff that’s already in the game before attempting to add more stuff IMO. Would love to play the game as it is without always worrying if paramedics can reach victims and wreckers can actually get to the cars.

[Amon]

+1, absolutely agree with everything and devs should pay close attention to this
i stopped playing a while ago, so did most of my friends but that never stopped me to stop and check the development of the game, whilst not particularly impressed the devs actually listen, and i sure hope they listen to this as well.

[The_Igromator]

Absolutely agree with the author of this discussion. After all, the developers have repeatedly said that they aim to make a realistic police simulator - therefore, realism will be more interesting for an older audience. If the design team didn't want to implement realistic police work, they wouldn't consult with current police officers.

But the problem is that the game rating was created based on the content that was filled in the game at the time of the game's release. I think after consulting with real cops they understand where to take their game and I think they now understand their target audience.

Nevertheless, the game has two game modes - normal and realistic. The normal mode is just for casual players, but the realistic mode is for a more adult audience. Now in the game, so there is a penalty for shooting at ordinary NPCs without a target, the shift just ends. I see no problem in developing events and challenges where we can use our service pistol in self-defense.

[Locket Rauncher]

Publicado originalmente por 3S-27 D. Waterloo:

As much as I understand concerns about raising the rating in regards to introducing violent scenarios into the game, if your goal is realistic policing, then you're going to fail if you refuse to budge. Subject matter involving policing is not fit for people who are 13. The things that officers experience in real life scar grown men and women for years afterwards, I'm not asking you to traumatize your player base, but be realistic about the nature of this job and your intended audience

Truth of the matter is guys, cops don't just write tickets and deal with compliant people all day, they're not always just showing up after things have happened where everybody ends up being okay after the ambulance is called. People get hurt, people get shot, people get stabbed, people use drugs and threaten to kill themselves. So in no way shape or form should this game have been rated for people as young as 13.

You're getting the complaints that you're getting now about the boringness and the uselessness of having a pistol because you catered to children. Who is your intended audience? Is it little kids who want to be a cop in the Caillou Universe? Or is it people who are genuinely interested in law enforcement, because if that's the case then you have a unique opportunity to prepare them for some of the things that they might face once they take that leap in a dangerous and potentially life-threatening career

There's two sayings in law enforcement that are as old as time. 1. It's like a front row seat to the best show in the world, and 2 it's long periods of boredom broken up by spurts of terror. If you don't think you're capable of living up to that, then stop everything you're doing right now and quit. If you don't legitimately believe that you can make this game live up to those two statements, then stop wasting your time

On a quick side note, Grand Theft Auto has been marked 17 plus and rated Mature for 13 years, and not 30% of the people playing it are of age. So can we maybe get real about how much that actually matters?

Couldn't agree more with this. I really wish the dev's would realized what kind of opportunity they have with this game since there isn't a single solid game on the market where you can free roam and play as a patrol officer (except for LSPDFR maybe, but thats just a mod for GTA V and also far from perfect)

[Shoshone]

I wholeheartedly agree. When I read the game was created for 13 years and older, I was like, that is really stupid. In no way can you create a realstic police simulator for that age range. If they are unwilling to budge to a higher rating, then please developers. Please. Please. Do the right thing and allow us to get our money back. We paid for a police simulator. Not a Teletubbies Police Simulator.