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p2pnet news | Games:- Yesterday we ran an item pointing out the East County Youth Coalition (ECYC) had organised an “undercover survey” of more than 60 stores countywide.
The result?
Some 46% sold video games rated M for Mature to teens younger than 18 and, “Recent studies have found, ‘boys as young as 7 years old could buy mature-rated video games as much as 50% of the time, according to the National Institute on Media and the Family’,” said the ECYC.
The institute worked with the ECYC on the study
That so many stores are apparently selling Mature video games to kids, “isn’t good,” says a post on destructoid.com, going on >>>
We here at Destructoid have voiced our support of adult games many times in the past, but we agree that ratings need to be listened to in order for our arguments to be taken seriously. It’s very well saying certain games aren’t aimed at kids, but store workers need to pull their bloody fingers out and actually pay some attention. This isn’t the videogame industry’s fault, but it’s certainly the industry that will get it in the neck, not the dumb twat at GameStop who was too busy thinking about how drunk he’d be getting that night to refuse sale of an M-rated game to a minor.
That’s the crux of the issue here - you can bet for sure that videogames themselves will be the focus of blame here when it’s not really their fault. It’s being claimed that kids as young as seven can get their hands on M-rated games without adult supervision near 50% of the time, something that is completely undermining the games industry in the face of angry parents and watchdog groups.
That said, no child of seven should be out buying games on his own anyway. Let’s not forget the role of the parent in all this, as well.
Seriously … is it too much to ask that everybody grow themselves a bloody brain?
“I remember I was in Game once and a member of staff refused to sell a child an M-rated game,” says Mikey in a comment post to the story.
“What did the child do? Give the game to his dad to buy for him. Right in front of the cashiers eyes! When the kids dad bought the game, no questions were asked…”
The ECYC is running a special warning about Narc and the pic on the right is from destructoid.
Stay tuned.
Also See:
as young as 7 years old - Kids as young as 7 get M-rated games, November 22, 2007
destructoid.com - Almost 50% of stores ignore ESRB ratings, according to undercover survey, November 22, 2007
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November 23rd, 2007 at 6:01 pm
Video games don’t kill people, people kill people!!
November 23rd, 2007 at 6:31 pm
gameing is for kids who have time to shoot and kill as many people as they want
i would kill for that time. let them home their skills give them the head shot let them
build them stats till his char its maxed and pk king. tis better than boozing and smoking
up at age 13. u wanna make clever peeps or stuped madafakas like me e?
November 24th, 2007 at 9:51 am
The system is wrong. The ratings should be guidelines at best, which is what many see them as. If they are young and have to go with their parents to a game store, the decision is with the parent. When they’re old enough to go to game stores with friends or on their own, it’s up to them.
Simple.