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Game retail sting ends badly for some stores

Posted Feb 8, 2007 at 12:27AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: How-To, News Tags: Virginia
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ABC 7's sting - Image 1 


Straight from Game Politics comes news of yet another sad day in videogame history, this time from the side of those selling the games. A recent sting operation made by the D.C. area's ABC 7 News highlights some stores who haven't been living up to legislation.

Stringent rules now prohibit the sale of games to minors, which thus necessitates some form of ID checking for certain games. In some cases, as outlined by their broadcast, that certainly wasn't the case:

Our hidden camera rolls as kids much younger (than 17) shop chain stores from Maryland to Virginia and half the time those stores sold them age-restricted games. Even though virtually every major game retailer has policies prohibiting the sale of M-rated games to kids, clerk after clerk sold them without asking our kids their age.


See, for parents who don't want to be responsible for their kids, game stores are the last line of defense against getting inappropriate stuff onto their consoles. You can be certain that someone's going to be watching out for this little tidbit of information and use it to their advantage. For now, you can view the link straight from their site.



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# what if...Guest 2007-02-08 01:29
hillary clinton comes into power, with evidence like this she will ban all the games we love like manhunt and gta !



why is this such a big thing in the uk if you are caught selling to a minor you are fined something like £500 and given a warning. its all blown out of proportion in the us.



and btw first mofo's !

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# well ok thenKoru-Kun 2007-02-08 02:36
I don't see a problem with enforcing the ratings system on video games sales to minors. It's obvious a whole lot of minors are going to be flaming their heads off because they think that the only good games are M rated ones.... of course, that would be immature and only prove the point of why there are ratings on games in the first place; to keep (or try to keep) immature kids from playing games intended for a mature adult!

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# EhGuest 2007-02-08 02:55
All I have to say, is that if you work at gamestop/EB (I did), you make minimum wage... and don't really get paid enough to care what the policy is... There where many times that I basically ignored some of the rules when I worked there. But in the case of mature to a minor, the issue never came up... so thats my opinion on the mater.

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# Irresponsible parentsGuest 2007-02-08 03:17
While I strongly agree that the parents ought to be watching their kids themselves, the simple fact is that there are going to be parents who don't. And when the maladjusted kids start shooting, it's the kids of the responsible parents who get shot. So basically the whole "stop trying to legislate this and just expect people to be better parents" arguement doesn't hold water.

Now I'm not saying that M rated games are going to make a kid shoot another kid. I'm not saying there's any correlation whatsoever. I mean, is it really surprising that a violent kid likes to play violent games? That doesn't neccesarily mean the game caused him to be violent, but more likely his own violent tendencies caused him to like the game.

What I am saying though, is there is enough doubt in my mind, that I would actually favor enforcing the rating system. I really don't understand where the problem is... that is, assuming that any legislation uses the esrb, which is, imo, a very conservative rating system. I just don't understand why law makers are always trying to make up their own vague definitions for games, rather than using the much superior ones already in place.

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# I'm so tired of this *****Guest 2007-02-08 03:38
I hate esrb sending *****ing girls that are *****ign hot or guys who look 26 and are 12 into my store trying to buy mature rated games. ***** this *****. Its entrapment. If you look 26 then you shouldnt be carded. I shouldnt have to be paranoid about every damn person being under age and me losing my job.

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# LOL AT NEWS REPORTERGuest 2007-02-08 03:45
his face looks like if he never developed since he was a fetus LMFAO.

and the glasses...god what a geeky dorky nerdy FAAG!

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# D.C. Represent!tinglemaps 2007-02-08 03:45
retailer's have a responsibility, but parents do as well. if the kids are getting the cash from their rent's then the parents should be paying attention to what their kids are buying.

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# nice work.Guest 2007-02-08 05:07
all that video did was show kids where they can buy adult video games without any hassle and which stores to avoid.





nice work, dumbasses.

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# coldGuest 2007-02-08 05:10
hey its 28 degrees there, look at the video it says! thats cold

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# ..Laetty 2007-02-08 07:41
This is *****ing retarted, I'm 17 now will be 18 in may and iv been playing M rated games since i was 12 or 13 and because i am a hardcore gamer... their blowing this so out of proportion...

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# ??Guest 2007-02-08 13:16
WHO GIVES A S.HI.T

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