Parents 'ignore game age ratings'

Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday August 12, 2005 @07:36AM from the letting-congress-raise-your-children-is-easier dept.

Jim Hall writes "With all the fervor recently over the 'Hot Coffee' mod and the upcoming 'Bully' game, I found it interesting that no press time seems to have been given to this little gem from the BBC: Parents 'ignore game age ratings'. I think most of us agree that the games are already rated appropriate to their audience - GTA:SA was previously rated "M" (17 and up) in the US, before public outcry forced the ESRB to move it to "AO" (18 and up). However, as this article points out, parents are more concerned about children spending too many hours playing games, rather than about what type of title they were playing."

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Welcome to the state of things... by ShoobieRat · 2005-08-12 07:53 · Score: 0, Redundant

So because parents refuse to PARENT THEIR OWN KIDS...we have to put up with more and more freaking rating crap.

You know, when are they going to enact a law that says not parenting your children is aliken to child abuse?

BTW, I was reading the ratings on the back of one of my DVDs at home, and one of the reasons it got its rating was because of something called "Brief Language". WTF is 'brief language'??? Who the fk came up with these dumbass rating categories?