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I am Spartan-II located on the UNSC Frigate Spirit Of Fire. I'm fighting in the battles for Harvest and Arcadia.

Agreed. It's redundant. But, it is true that you can't stop 13 year old kids from doing something along the lines of lying to the government, to play those games. You can't.

  • 01.02.2013 4:55 PM PDT

I am all for this. Don't care if they play M games offline, but playing with kids online is annoying.

Yah, I could mute them, but that's too much effort compared to just not letting them play.

  • 01.02.2013 4:56 PM PDT

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You know what's even worse?

When the boy you like has a girlfriend.
#gheyworldproblems

Microsoft just wants my CAC info so they can hack my AKO and see all the boring, uninteresting, totally not classified stuff on there.

  • 01.02.2013 4:57 PM PDT

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2) I believe quite strongly that the ESRB guidelines Gould be followed. Children have no place viewing media designed for adults.

Key word being guidelines. The ESRB guidelines are the suggested age group, not a strict set of doctrines that must be followed.

Besides, under 17s can buy M games with a parent present. I do it all the time.


And, if the rumor is true, you would be able o play them if you use their drivers license.
What would be the point? Getting parental permission twice to use something that I already own? That's the equivalent to asking if you can go to the bathroom while in the bathroom. It's redundant.


Well, as you underlined, it's not being enforced at the register. This would be a slightly harder work around. It would placate the pissed off soccer moms, and keep a Congressional investigation out of our games.

How do you think No Russian would stand up in such a hearing?
Point, but parent can put parental controls in place if the see fit. And the ESRB is enforced at my local GameStop. I have to have a parent present to purchase an M game. Otherwise I'm not allowed to.

  • 01.02.2013 4:57 PM PDT

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The ESRB wasn't created to actually do anything but get Congress out of the gaming industry. It was the dev's saying they would police themselves.

You guys can yell its dumb, and I would agree with you. But it's not there to actually work.. It's there to show they are doing something.

The only reason I support it is I am an ageist jerk.

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  • 01.02.2013 5:01 PM PDT

ESRB isn't present to police the industry. They are warnings as to content in games. Companies have the choice whether or not to follow the guidelines. Nothing has to be followed and rarely it should be. I don't mind kids playing M or T games, i think it is absurd you want to prevent people from playing online. You have no rights, you shouldn't be able to take away another's rights.

  • 01.02.2013 5:04 PM PDT

Studies show that men think about sex every 7 seconds. I do my best to eat hotdogs in under 6, just so things don't get weird.

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ESRB isn't present to police the industry. They are warnings as to content in games. Companies have the choice whether or not to follow the guidelines. Nothing has to be followed and rarely it should be. I don't mind kids playing M or T games, i think it is absurd you want to prevent people from playing online. You have no rights, you shouldn't be able to take away another's rights.

I'm sorry, but my point was over there, it looks like you missed it.

  • 01.02.2013 5:06 PM PDT
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MyNameIsCharlie has most definitely got a point.

  • 01.02.2013 5:06 PM PDT
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Reach for the stars

I was thinking the same thing. Kids will most likely just use their parents id.

  • 01.02.2013 5:08 PM PDT

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MyNameIsCharlie has most definitely got a point.

Account created today, 2 posts, both in this thread...
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  • 01.02.2013 5:09 PM PDT


Posted by: l Latsu15 l
ESRB isn't present to police the industry. They are warnings as to content in games. Companies have the choice whether or not to follow the guidelines. Nothing has to be followed and rarely it should be. I don't mind kids playing M or T games, i think it is absurd you want to prevent people from playing online. You have no rights, you shouldn't be able to take away another's rights.


I just want a way to filter out young annoying kids. I have a right to not want to play with people. Age discrimination is okay.

  • 01.02.2013 5:12 PM PDT
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Posted by: Chickeychupalas
MyNameIsCharlie has most definitely got a point.

Account created today, 2 posts, both in this thread...
lel

So? Got a problem?

  • 01.02.2013 5:26 PM PDT
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Posted by: TheBrandingIron

Posted by: l Latsu15 l
ESRB isn't present to police the industry. They are warnings as to content in games. Companies have the choice whether or not to follow the guidelines. Nothing has to be followed and rarely it should be. I don't mind kids playing M or T games, i think it is absurd you want to prevent people from playing online. You have no rights, you shouldn't be able to take away another's rights.


I just want a way to filter out young annoying kids. I have a right to not want to play with people. Age discrimination is okay.

Mute was already invented, bruh.

And no, no kind of discrimination is okay.

  • 01.02.2013 5:27 PM PDT

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However, my point still stands. If this were to happen, it would improve M rated online games.

In what way exactly would it? Its not gonna stop kids from getting on or adults from doing the same exact thing that the kids are doing.



  • 01.02.2013 5:45 PM PDT

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Why does it matter to you what other peoples kids are playing?

  • 01.02.2013 5:55 PM PDT

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Disclaimer: The latter is a lie.

Wouldn't care, to be honest. I doubt this rumour is true, though. Microsoft would lose out on a ton of money if this was ever to be implemented.

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  • 01.02.2013 5:58 PM PDT

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Microsoft would never do that.

Little kids make up a huge percentage in sales for M-rated games.

  • 01.02.2013 5:58 PM PDT


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of gamers were minors.


Which that study pretty much acknowledges if the average gamer has been playing since they were before 17. A fact you blatantly ignored.
I didn't ignore you at all. I answered you twice.

You can't compare Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 to Sonic the Hedgehog. You can't even compare the latest Mortal Kombat to the original. And MK was the game that started this whole damned debate.

Games today are much more graphic in their depiction of violence than ever before. You really can't compare them. Now, I know you are sitting there either confused or smug. I will go with confused, because you keep coming back to this.

The point you are missing is that the ID card is only rumored to be for M rated games. The games I played when I was 17 would be T or below. Until MK came out, there were no M games. It was the first.

So, had this system existed then, I would still have been able to play all but one game.



Are you kidding me charlie? Mortal kombat is mortal komabat,period. I don't give a damn if the colors are pretty or not it was still violent yet it was the most family played game back in the day.

Call of duty isn't even bad,it's a game. The only time games like that become an issue when you don't make sure the kid understands that. Games can't transition into real life if you don't supplement it such as by buying nerf guns or teach a kid how to shoot. It you let them acknowledge it is a game and leave it at that then no issues.

What? I don't have an issue with you so i don't understand what that was called for. I am not "confused" in the sense you mean it. I just don't see the need for the government to start parenting which that was the point of the two people having kids in the first place.

But you can't say that for the kids now when everything is perceived as "violent". which i think is the issue, you are getting older and starting to do that weird conservative stuff even though i am technically the conservative here.


The point with the average gamer is that study should be voided if the played mortal kombat. Not to mention if a more current one was to take place nearly everybody would say they own an M rated game which would make it more complicated if the true average gamer isn't 17 and plays these games.


The age should honestly be lowered to 16 if not 15. All everybody ever talked about playing in high school was CoD and i feel like if you are old enough to drive you should be able to play a video game.
And people can fight in a war and not be able to drink a beer. That's the way it is.

  • 01.02.2013 6:09 PM PDT
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This would never ever in a billion years happen. Microsoft is a company, and profits are their highest priority; why on earth would they destroy their own consumerbase? Every underage gamer in America would switch to PlayStation overnight. This rumor is idiotic.

  • 01.02.2013 6:25 PM PDT

I never understood why people have problems with a kid screaming over the mic. Seriously just mute them or get over it. I find it kind of entertaining to hear.

  • 01.02.2013 6:27 PM PDT