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Game retail sting ends badly for some stores |
Listed in: How-To, News Tags: Virginia
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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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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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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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and the glasses...god what a geeky dorky nerdy FAAG!
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nice work, dumbasses.
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