- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I remember when I was 12 years old (quite sometime ago) and I urgently wanted to see" Friday The 13th," back then it was a leading edge horror flick. It was said to be easy to see a horror flick(or any) that was "R" rated, you simply had to pay for a ticket to see a "G" rated movie than go into the R rated movie showing at the same Famous Players. Well wouldn't you know it-the day we (me and my 13 year old friend) tried the old "switch-a-roony"-we were followed by an usher and escorted to the door, yes we were booted. We tried 3 more times on different Saturdays, once we almost got away with it-but a concerned movie goer in the theater it's self called an usher on us. Now that I'm older I often wonder, were they protecting our young and impressionable minds.....maybe, or was it that kids in the theater cause too much of a distraction.....most likey. Oh sure there are exceptions to every rule (not every kid's a distraction), but unfortunately, you make one exception for one---and then "Mob Rules" come into effect. The problem is that too many kids get away with playing ESRB-M rated games on-line--and no one is doing "jack" about it? Personally, I could care less if they grow-up to become serial killers because they are trigger happy little demons in halo--that's not my problem-talk to the parents. But what I can't stand is the distruption of these kids who don't know how to behave on-line. It takes away from the quality of the game--even worst, there is no escape. Not at 1am or 3am--there seems to be no time where adults can play kid-free (and OMG what kind of parents do these kids have-I mean these kids are up all night). So, since the ESRB rating is an absolute comedy, because they can't seem to enforce there own rating system, other than threatening retailers with fines, where does this leave us--you know, the legit "M" players? Well we are left to cope. So here's a solution. Why not make matchmaking battles in age groups (next time). You could stream -matchmaking in Child, Preteen, Teen, and Adult--or something like that. It would be hard to put a child catagory in an "M" rated game--I understand, but if there was a way to do it that wasn't so obivious, it would take on-line gaming to the next level. (I'd settle for a snitch line, 1-800-4-MY-XBOX doesn't care- I've tried)--We need an Usher.