5/21/2023 0 Comments Manhunt 2 usThe arrival of the new generation consoles does not help either, as more revenue is needed to cover the development costs.ĭo parents ignore movie ratings? If not then why would they ignore game age ratings? They are exactly the same and appear in exactly the same places on a game DVD box as a movie DVD box. I guess the market forces direct most of the development and advertising towards games for the largest audience which I believe now is young (male) adults. Also, they should make more games directed towards the younger audiences and these should be made more appealing. I think the industry would be wise if it raised awareness with ad-campaigns. Now it's easier to ignore the ratings as no-one outside the home sets an example with video games. Many parents stuck with this at home when film rentals became available. ![]() ![]() With movies it used to be easy, if you were too young you could not enter the movie theatre to see that feature. When I was 14, I was prevented from buying a skateboarding game that carries a 15+ rating! The current system works, it allows parents to be directly involved in choosing what their child plays. The parents are to blame if they misjudge their child's maturity, because under-age children can not buy games with an age-rating they do not meet. The game manufacturers cannot be blamed, because they fully comply with all regulations. It is up to the parents to decide whether their child is mature enough to play these games. 18-rated games are not singularly responsible for violence among children, so stop using them as a scapegoat! My parents are aware of the age rating on these games, but they also know that most of the content of these games is detached from real life. To allow an underage child to play an 18+ rated game is irresponsible parenting, it is not the games industry fault that they ignore the ratings.Īs a 15-year old who regularly plays 18-rated games such as Grand Theft Auto and Doom 3 I fail to see what the large problem is. They place age ratings on their games it is the parents who should be checking what their children play and what rating it has been given. I don't see why this is a problem for the games industry. A further 100 people who questioned after buying a video game and in-depth interviews were held with 18 teenagers. Games like Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, last year's best-selling title, tend to receive most of the media attention.īut 18-rated games only make up a small number of software released each year.īetween January 2003 and July 2004, just 16 out of the 1,208 games on sale in the UK were given a 18+ certificate.Īround 1,000 UK adults were interviewed by phone for the Modulum study. The number of games aimed at adults has increased in recent years, as the average age of gamers has risen. Ways of making parents more aware about the age ratings of games were discussed last December at a meeting between UK government officials, industry representatives and the British Board of Film Classification. "We need to look at solutions and as an industry we are quite united on this." "It raises more questions than answers," commented Nintendo's UK boss David Yarnton. The study has not yet been finalised but it makes for uncomfortable reading for the games industry. "Parents are too divorced from what teenagers play," he said. ![]() Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was last year's best-selling game
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