ECA Takes Over GamePolitics.com, Talks Mission

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday October 25, 2006 @04:27AM from the gamepols-get-legits dept.

simoniker writes "The new Entertainment Consumers Association has announced that it has acquired the GamePolitics.com website, as part of its mission 'to give gaming consumers a voice and ensure that state and local politicians hear their concerns and appreciate their demographic power'. An in-depth interview with ECA founder Hal Halpin explains his reasons for setting up membership-based, consumer-focused ECA: 'I noticed last year that the state-level guys started moving away from targeting retailers, and trying to haul them off for selling M-rated games, to targeting consumers. And, you know, kids being [arrested] at 17 years of age for buying an M-rated game... it's just insane. And so, to me, that was the call.'"

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The demographic that matters... by westlake · 2006-10-25 06:24 · Score: 2, Interesting

The new Entertainment Consumers Association has announced that it has acquired the GamePolitics.com website [CC], as part of its mission 'to give gaming consumers a voice and ensure that state and local politicians hear their concerns and appreciate their demographic power'.
The only demographic that matters to the politician is that of the voters in his district.
But even then he must make choices.
The Evangelical Protestant is active and organized and the issues which excite him resonate far beyond his own community.
The gamer in politics runs the risk of looking adolescent and frivolous in comparison and usually stands very much alone.