They suck at their purpose. Games are often given too high, or too low of a rating. Blood and light sexual content? M FOR MATURE. Depictions of suicide and baby murder with no graphic violence and sexual content? T FOR TEEN. It’s just not helpful for parents at all. Not to mention the fact that publishers and platform holders are censorious as hell, causing even M-rated games literally made for adults to receive censorship for political reasons because apparently even adults aren’t allowed to decide for themselves.
A lot of US stores refuse to sell any audiovisual products that is legally banned from minors. That's always struck to me as a very weird hill of purity to cling onto, europoor store chains don't seem to have an issue with it since it is pretty easy for games to get PEGI 18 rating there just for featuring guns and blood.
At the big box store I work in we have to check for ID for M rated games & R rated movies, so the whole 'mature rating that isn't legally enforced' thing doesn't work anyway.
I think the only thing ESRB ratings do is prevent more sexual content from being developed. Isn't it an entirely optional system that everyone follows because Lieberman made it a point that he would have government regulation if the industry didn't regulate themselves?
Look at any M rated game and tell me it's not made with children in mind. Ratings should be
a) Reworked - so that rating M is not an instant seller among teens who have Grown Up And Need Serious Games With Violence And Potty Words. Let them have this shit, and have ratings go like, I dunno, "Educational Games", "Every other game", and "Porn".
b) Actually enforced - so we can have porn games properly sold in stores and such, and soccer moms won't be able to bitch about it because they can't carelessly buy Mega Cum Explosion 7: FuckFest Carnival for their shitty runts.
No. They haven't been relevant in a long time and parents buy whatever game their kids want, even though it clearly says M and for what reasons. There will occasionally be that idiot that buys it and then complains about the game having "SEX" in it when their kid is 9 years old, but most these days know exactly the content of the game and just don't care.
Most companies don't try to alter content in games to get a particular rating outside of Nintendo. Who is incredibly anal about it, because of their public image, but also things like broadcasting. Though the real problem is CERO >Can only have certain rated games at kids events >Have to get Smash as an A rated game in CERO because of this, even though it should have been rated B or even C
Nintendo and many other Japanese companies simply need to tell CERO and the Japanese government to fuck off, instead of continuing to curtail their creative endeavors and ignoring the obvious problem. As more and more companies start to put out their work on PC, realizing that they can do so uncensored, as CERO has no PC jurisdiction. It will only be a matter of time until the Japanese government moves in to take action. Avoiding the issue will only cut off their avenue of escape and cut into their profits in the long term.
When I was 12 I told my dad I wanted god of war 1. The gamestop employee told my european dad "Hey this is rated M, are you sure you want to buy it?" and my dad is like Uh, I Buy Dis Game, Tenk You
Trashy retard normies who have babies at age 12 unironically need these symbols to know what is safe for their kids.
Everyone else I'd just have >Violence >Nudity >Profanity
filters with sub-categories like SCANTILY CLAD, RACIAL SLURS, etc. to block what don't want your kids to see and allow what you find acceptable. I'd even have things like >OPERATION OF MOTOR VEHICLE
or >JANITORIAL WORK
so rich folks can buy games for their kids while avoiding giving them dreams of doing goy work.
Story time >call my local game store >everything is out of stock >even the shitty single player games >the clerk tells me they're going out of business >make my own game >a badass indie game about depression >release it to the store >people love it and the store profits
mfw you read the first letter of each line
CEET
MARP
What does it mean?
More like eCEE10+TMAoRP
>CEEC MAAM
>TEET PRAARP
Meet carp.
CNEED
thank you, I'm glad this is the first comment
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What was the difference in E rating and KA rating?
KA was basically E10+. Mostly fighting games with no blood
E is just rebranded KA.
KA was the very early prototype of the E rating back in the 90s, it went KA, T, M, and Ao. They later rebranded KA to E sometime in the late 90s.
KATMAO
cat meow
>MAO RP
It's good to know a game probably isn't worth buying if it's rated T
ceet marp
what did they mean by this?
Yes. Otherwise Lieberman will run got office again
There will be a global one forced into existence to apply to online stores.
They suck at their purpose. Games are often given too high, or too low of a rating. Blood and light sexual content? M FOR MATURE. Depictions of suicide and baby murder with no graphic violence and sexual content? T FOR TEEN. It’s just not helpful for parents at all. Not to mention the fact that publishers and platform holders are censorious as hell, causing even M-rated games literally made for adults to receive censorship for political reasons because apparently even adults aren’t allowed to decide for themselves.
>game is rated m for mature
>devs are too immature to handle cleavage
when you ceet
but she marp
>M
17+
>AO
18+
Never made any sense to me.
it's kind of like r rated movies vs straight up porn/rekt movies. Mostly to distinguish which ones gamestop will sell
A lot of US stores refuse to sell any audiovisual products that is legally banned from minors. That's always struck to me as a very weird hill of purity to cling onto, europoor store chains don't seem to have an issue with it since it is pretty easy for games to get PEGI 18 rating there just for featuring guns and blood.
At the big box store I work in we have to check for ID for M rated games & R rated movies, so the whole 'mature rating that isn't legally enforced' thing doesn't work anyway.
Most of them make no sense. Just have 1 rating like with alcohol or drivers lincences.
Yes. You'd be surprised how many parents won't let their child play a T rated game even at another child's house.
Perhaps op meant seethe and larp?
>ESRB
>ESG
>XQC
ceet's seet and feet
formerly marp's
they never were necessary. it's a private agency that makes money for itself.
ESRB has never been necessary on PC. You only need ESRB if it's a console game or you're selling boxed copies in certain stores.
the white man wants moral standards, the israelite wants pornography all the time
I think the only thing ESRB ratings do is prevent more sexual content from being developed. Isn't it an entirely optional system that everyone follows because Lieberman made it a point that he would have government regulation if the industry didn't regulate themselves?
C MEAT ERP
nope, at least they look aesthetically pleasing though
>Fallout 3
>ESRB Rating: M - Mature 17+
Look at any M rated game and tell me it's not made with children in mind. Ratings should be
a) Reworked - so that rating M is not an instant seller among teens who have Grown Up And Need Serious Games With Violence And Potty Words. Let them have this shit, and have ratings go like, I dunno, "Educational Games", "Every other game", and "Porn".
b) Actually enforced - so we can have porn games properly sold in stores and such, and soccer moms won't be able to bitch about it because they can't carelessly buy Mega Cum Explosion 7: FuckFest Carnival for their shitty runts.
No. They haven't been relevant in a long time and parents buy whatever game their kids want, even though it clearly says M and for what reasons. There will occasionally be that idiot that buys it and then complains about the game having "SEX" in it when their kid is 9 years old, but most these days know exactly the content of the game and just don't care.
Most companies don't try to alter content in games to get a particular rating outside of Nintendo. Who is incredibly anal about it, because of their public image, but also things like broadcasting. Though the real problem is CERO
>Can only have certain rated games at kids events
>Have to get Smash as an A rated game in CERO because of this, even though it should have been rated B or even C
Nintendo and many other Japanese companies simply need to tell CERO and the Japanese government to fuck off, instead of continuing to curtail their creative endeavors and ignoring the obvious problem. As more and more companies start to put out their work on PC, realizing that they can do so uncensored, as CERO has no PC jurisdiction. It will only be a matter of time until the Japanese government moves in to take action. Avoiding the issue will only cut off their avenue of escape and cut into their profits in the long term.
When I was 12 I told my dad I wanted god of war 1. The gamestop employee told my european dad "Hey this is rated M, are you sure you want to buy it?" and my dad is like Uh, I Buy Dis Game, Tenk You
Trashy retard normies who have babies at age 12 unironically need these symbols to know what is safe for their kids.
Everyone else I'd just have
>Violence
>Nudity
>Profanity
filters with sub-categories like SCANTILY CLAD, RACIAL SLURS, etc. to block what don't want your kids to see and allow what you find acceptable. I'd even have things like
>OPERATION OF MOTOR VEHICLE
or
>JANITORIAL WORK
so rich folks can buy games for their kids while avoiding giving them dreams of doing goy work.
Story time
>call my local game store
>everything is out of stock
>even the shitty single player games
>the clerk tells me they're going out of business
>make my own game
>a badass indie game about depression
>release it to the store
>people love it and the store profits
mfw you read the first letter of each line