anti-games activists at it again

[Sir Phoenixx]

Ban retards from having children, problem solved.

The senators wouldn't look good and would have less of a chance of being re-elected if they put the blame where it should go and told the parents to shove it and actually try to not be terrible parents.

Does anyone else here find it rediculous that they interviewed only 7th graders, who were barely old enough for T rated games (and according to that article, at least one who wasn't) about an M rated game which they wouldn't be old enough for 4-5 years, and completely avoided interviewing 17+ year old teens and adults, the ones the game is actually made for and marketed for? (I've never actually heard about this game before this thread, I've never seen advertisements for it in magazines, game stores, websites, or on TV.)

 

[Pesmerga]

Dekstar, your logic is flawed! We can't simply march up to the whitehouse...that accomplishes nothing! We should systematically kill any proponant of gaming violence in a gruesome fashion! That'll learn em!

 

[FictiousWill]

Best way to support games is to buy them. As long as there are buyers, games like this will be made. Neither the gamers nor the developers give a flying shit about these wacko soccer moms.

 

[DreamThrall]

I am all for free speech... HOWEVER...

Some of these games are getting a bit screwed up. You've gotta recognize that.

 

[Glirk Dient]

Woo, just got done playing BF2...the realistic military sim. I flew a plane and got a kill to death ration of 73:0...wow thats better than a navy seal. Dang, watch out world, I am the next rambo!

 

[CptStern]

I am all for free speech... HOWEVER...

Some of these games are getting a bit screwed up. You've gotta recognize that.

but as adults we have a right to decide whether a game is screwed up or not ...I dont want someone dictating what I can or cant play

 

[JellyWorld]

but as adults we have a right to decide whether a game is screwed up or not ...I dont want someone dictating what I can or cant play

And neither do I. Screw age discrimination.

 

[ríomhaire]

I really hope these idiots do what they did about Eminem (buy all these games and burn them all). The developers would make so much money that they'd just keep making worse and worse games to they all get burned.

 

[Glirk Dient]

I really hope these idiots do what they did about Eminem (buy all these games and burn them all). The developers would make so much money that they'd just keep making worse and worse games to they all get burned.

Umm...developers make money when people steal games?

 

[CptStern]

microsoft comes to aid of developer in fighting this witch hunt:


Microsoft has backed Eidos after a US senator declared that its gang warfare title 25 to Life "lowers common decency", while the British publisher has reacted by saying that it believes videogame are a creative form and that the ratings systems in place to govern them should be allowed to do their job.

"25 to Life was developed for a mature audience and has been rated so it will be sold only to the appropriate audiences," Microsoft said in a statement."



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[Icarusintel]

microsoft comes to aid of developer in fighting this witch hunt:


Microsoft has backed Eidos after a US senator declared that its gang warfare title 25 to Life "lowers common decency", while the British publisher has reacted by saying that it believes videogame are a creative form and that the ratings systems in place to govern them should be allowed to do their job.

"25 to Life was developed for a mature audience and has been rated so it will be sold only to the appropriate audiences," Microsoft said in a statement."



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alright! it's good to see companies standing up for themselves, and using the ratings system for their reasoning, me likey, but me still hates all the bastards who want violent games to go away

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

Umm...developers make money when people steal games?

They bought them.

 

[john121]

actually, games like GTA and 25 to life COULD be used as math games... 2 pedestrians shot plus 3 cops shot equals? yes! 5 casualties!

see? kids learning math skills, lol
...not to mention morality by telling them NOT to do what they just saw onscreen...

 

[Dag]

"Johny, whatever you do, never do what that guy right there is about to do, okay?"
"Ok"
BLAM!! BRATATAATA!!
"AHHHHH!"