Most Children Able To Buy M-Rated Games

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to the FTC report on children buying potentially inappropriate adult-rated games. According to the survey, "69 percent of the teenage shoppers were able to buy M-rated games", but this figure is down from 85 percent in 2000 and 78 percent in 2001. However, only 27 percent of stores where the games were bought had "signs, posters, or other information to inform customers about the rating system or the seller's policy on rating enforcement", and only 24 percent asked the 13-to-16 year old child's age, in this "mystery shopper" study funded by The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

Comments

This has gone too far...

[Lord Kano]

When stores start to card EVERYONE who comes in to buy an M rated game. I'm almost 30, and I look like it. I got carded when I bought Operation Flashpoint Gold. For God's sake people, it's not like they're selling booze or guns. We're talking about VIDEOGAMES!!!!

LK