So I've been hearing more and more about this... What do you guys think of this? I mean the majority of the games out there given the T rating deserve an M rating.. I mean honestly should a teenager be allowed to play on WoW or battle.net considering the amount of sexual references and racist comments being passed around? A lot of parents rely on the ESERB rating on a games cover to decide whether a game is suitable for their kid, but it seems kind of pointless to even look at the rating on a game that offers online play. How can a parent even trust these ratings any more considering they don't account for the immaturity of other adult players.... Also if games like WoW got the M rating because of their community do you think parents would stop allowing their children to play?
Do you HONESTLY think parents these days care if a game is Rated M? I saw a kid who must have been 6 years old playing MW2. In a game where you massacre an entire airport of civilians, has consistent cursing, ridiculously gore-filled and realistic war-scenes to the full 100% extent. So that brings me to my original point. Do parents honestly care anymore?
There are plenty that do actually. You would be surprised how many refuse to let their kids play M rated games. It just seems like a lot of them don't because you see the their kids more often.
The thing is, you can not rate those kind of things because everyones experience will be different. That is why games that do have online say on them "online game experience is un-rated" or something similar. The reason why is because it depends on who YOU come in contact with online meaning each person will experience different variations. For example someone might hear it explicit language a lot and the other every now and then. You can't rate an online community in those terms because even if it is rated for all people and age ranges there is stil lthe chance something explict will come up. You shouldn't have to rate an online community in the first place for parents because all they need to know is if the game is online or not. If your worried about them experincing explict content then don't let them online.
That or a reworded version is all that is used and all that should be used. Any online community is the same since interacting with an unknown person may result in the highest level of explict content (through text i assume, havn't read much on this). If you gave WoW an M rating you'd have to have M as the minimum rating for any computer related activity in which you interact with other people. Parents aren't that stupid to believe that the internet is made up purely of robots which have no connection to reality. If they attempted to apply rationality and individual communities were rated i'm sure 4chan could give Hello Kitty Online an R.
My parents don't even know what the raitings mean. I mean even I barely know what it means. Its completely irrelevant to anything I do including buying new games.
Games get rated long before the release. There's no way to even rate a community anyway, especially not in a game such as WoW. If everybody would abide by the rules, then there wouldn't even be a reason for any game to be rated higher because of the community. Also, most parents don't know anything about that to expect in a videogame. I was playing 18+ games at 12 years old already, while my parents didn't even wanted me to watch 16+ movies or stuff like South Park. But playing GTA apparently contained noting that they thought of as harmful. :/
I pretty much started gaming with games like Wolfenstein and Doom. They may not have been first, but close enough. I don't remember detail but I must've been under 10 years old then
When i was 4-5 my parents wouldn't let me play doom...however i did get to play the shareware version of wolfenstien =D I am now a homicidal maniac
wel concidering it is also the fifteen year olds that make the M-rated comments, i doubt playing the game would effect them for the worse. So my answer be: no
well, since I've been ovet eleven years old, I have been allowed to play any game I want, and it haven't affected me any worse... so really, remove the ratings and leave it to the parents is what I think ^ tired, hope you understand the bad english ^^
