ESRB: Is it time to retire the Ao rating?

[chewbachman]

If something like Cyberpunk can’t get it, but GTA San Andreas could…

What would it even take to get an Ao now in the first place?

Online gambling? It sure ain’t the presence of PRON.

[videomike_Ultimate_Plushie]

Well, no. It's time to retire the ESRB or at least force the ESRB to stop using final ratings and start just listing details. If they MUST to avoid political censorship from on-high then at least get rid of the moralizing.

Of course since all of this comes from political censorship born of not enforcing the child's entertainment be supervised by the parents but instead forcing everyone else to be terrified of the existence of children, it's not going away anytime soon. At this point simply petitioning stores to ignore the ratings and let us self-segregate and doing buisiness with those places that do just that should be the focus

[talemore]

Paid by chills and never a thing.
The store decide who they sell.
Use your brain

[videomike_Ultimate_Plushie]

Originally posted by talemore:

Paid by chills and never a thing.
The store decide who they sell.
Use your brain

you do know several countries make it a crime to sell adult only rated games right? As so several U.S. states. I'd petition that but I don't live in those states and populace either doesn't care about it or have bigger ♥♥♥♥ to worry about

[Tonepoet]

Not really. The fact that there are few A.O. games is kind of irrelevant to its purpose. The A.O. rating has purpose in allowing the E.S.R.B. to delimit what shouldn't be done if you want your games to be sold at Walmart or Gamestop.

Also, the only reason there are so few A.O. games is because an E.S.R.B. rating isn't mandatory. Porn games just don't seek an E.S.R.B. rating because they aren't really sold at venues where they'd need one and their content is obvious to parents even without the marker.

[Chaosolous]

Nope.

[Vox]

Odd how Manhunt 2 got an AO rating but the first game did not.

[talemore]

Originally posted by videomike_Ultimate_Plushie:

Originally posted by talemore:

Paid by chills and never a thing.
The store decide who they sell.
Use your brain

you do know several countries make it a crime to sell adult only rated games right? As so several U.S. states. I'd petition that but I don't live in those states and populace either doesn't care about it or have bigger ♥♥♥♥ to worry about

Ask this question. Who are games made for?

[Devsman]

I dunno but I love the ESRB.

None of the user or critical reviews told me about the penis monster in Persona 5 but ESRB did.

Why the hell would anybody want to play a game like that?

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

AO rating is strictly designed for adult games which GTA briefly got branded during their whole Hot Coffee nonsense a few years back. Fun fact when the change was ordered by Federal regulations, Rockstar complied and changed it, only for a radical Karen cancel culture group to form and blame Rockstars other game, Bully, as a tribute to school mass murders and attempted to storm their office with demands. Rockstars CEO at that time took the paper and read it before posting it online and laughing at the groups faces as they were removed from the building by both security and police.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y-RkiPhpPY

[Morkonan]

Originally posted by chewbachman:

If something like Cyberpunk can’t get it, but GTA San Andreas could…

What would it even take to get an Ao now in the first place?

Online gambling? It sure ain’t the presence of PRON.

The ESRB is an industry "self-regulation" group. It's literally offenders telling consumer that they didn't offend because they're the one's that make the rules about offenses...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment_Software_Rating_Board


The ESRB has no real legitimacy to be concerned about. The only reason it exists is because the Industry is afraid that if they don't undertake the "feel good" measure of "self-regulation" that the US Government will step in and curbstomp their video-game sales by slapping big fat US Government Warning Stickers on it, ala "The Surgeon General Has Determined That This Game Will Rot Your Brain."

Paying attention to what the ESRB has to say about anything has long since been a futile effort - Just don't. If you want to find out why they rate or do anything, the answer will always be "money."

[Devsman]

Originally posted by Morkonan:

The only reason it exists is because the Industry is afraid that if they don't undertake the "feel good" measure of "self-regulation" that the US Government will step in and curbstomp their video-game sales by slapping big fat US Government Warning Stickers on it, ala "The Surgeon General Has Determined That This Game Will Rot Your Brain."

Kinda curious, has this been shown to reduce the sales of cigarettes?

[talemore]

Electronic Arts(EA) running an online casino must be one of universe little jokes

[videomike_Ultimate_Plushie]

Originally posted by talemore:

Originally posted by videomike_Ultimate_Plushie:

you do know several countries make it a crime to sell adult only rated games right? As so several U.S. states. I'd petition that but I don't live in those states and populace either doesn't care about it or have bigger ♥♥♥♥ to worry about

Ask this question. Who are games made for?

People, the general populace....all men under the sun? Art isn't "for" anyone. I'm kind of confused what the purpose of the question is. Wanna ask me "who is the Mona Lisa for," next? xD

[Devsman]

Originally posted by videomike_Ultimate_Plushie:

Originally posted by talemore:

Ask this question. Who are games made for?

People, the general populace....all men under the sun? Art isn't "for" anyone. I'm kind of confused what the purpose of the question is. Wanna ask me "who is the Mona Lisa for," next? xD

Yeah, no, this isn't how for-profit media works. A successful work generally has a target audience.

[talemore]

Originally posted by videomike_Ultimate_Plushie:

Originally posted by talemore:

Ask this question. Who are games made for?

People, the general populace....all men under the sun? Art isn't "for" anyone. I'm kind of confused what the purpose of the question is. Wanna ask me "who is the Mona Lisa for," next? xD

They're not selling guns. I can not hold you hostage with this copy of gta.

The company can not earn money if they're not allowed to sell.