CNN.com - Woman sues video game manufacturer - Jul 27, 2005
You wanna know how frickin' pitiful our society, nay our parenting has become in this society. This 85 year old 'grandparent' (using this term loosely) is suing Rockstar because of the recent controversy with nudity/sex in a game rated 'M' for mature. She bought the game for her 14-year old grandson. 'M' rating is 17 and over....grandson is 14.....'M' rating is 17 and over......find the missing link here. Perhaps you shouldn't be buying mature titles for your little sonny boy there if he's not ready to handle it.
GTA: San Andreas is a game where you are supposed to rob and kill...anything and anyone. In fact, you can pick up a prostitute and have simulated sex (though not shown, the sounds are there) in a car rocking the suspension like Ron Jeremy. So the fact that now that there's nudity, the game is no longer safe for 17 and above. We need to change the rating to 'AO', adults only . .. . . which makes it 18 and over....WHOA. . . .you got pissed 17 year olds goin' crazy all over the place. The real difference is intended to slice at the company's profit as the game now will not be sold at the ever moral Wal-mart, Target, Best Buy, or Circuit City.
But the real problem lies with the parents who are buying games, and this goes for music and any other form of entertainment, for their kids without knowing what they are buying. Then they get mad at the company producing them because they didn't have the 'time, energy, passion, love, discipline, or respect' for parenting to look into what their kid was doing. Hell, the game is called 'GRAND THEFT AUTO'; it's safe to say that you shouldn't let your kid play a game that is named after a crime!
Lastly, Congress is so ridiculously slow right now that they have time to investigate a video game. I mean, seriously, a video game. It's not as if the video gaming industry will bring the country to it's knees. Today's parentless kids will do that long before any kind of media. Shouldn't Congress investigate oil alternatives, or oil companies ridiculous profits right now, or North Korea, or anything outside of the entertainment industry!?! I was indifferently positive to Hilary Clinton but now....notsomuch....
1 comment:
you are very right on this, it is definitely the parents responsibility to check out ratings, and even then, the product before handing it over to the children. some g rated things still have things in them that i wouldn't want my children to see, so ratings still may not be enough. maybe there should be a common sense law, that if you buy something rated M for a 14 year old (or with a crime in the name) your complaints should be null and void.
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