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anticron August 21 2006, 12:21:33 UTC
"[...]that has led to numerous problems with inappropriate content being marketed to children."

GTA: San Andreas and Oblivion is "numerous"? Is this guy even aware how many games come out per year?

Further, "being marketed to children"? On which planet?

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Silly widget andrew_eisen August 21 2006, 12:33:43 UTC
The rating board, which is supported by the industry, does not review the game’s entire content, instead relying on reviews that has led to numerous problems with inappropriate content being marketed to children.

Numerous? Try zero. Neither example you're thinking of were marketed to children. Even if they were, "two" hardly qualifies as numerous.

Andrew Eisen

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Re: Silly widget anticron August 21 2006, 19:37:20 UTC
Oblivion's Teen rating could apply in this case. San Andreas obviously does not.

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Re: Silly widget andrew_eisen August 21 2006, 20:01:51 UTC
It could but it didn't. I didn't see any marketing for Oblivion that targeted children. I guess I could have missed them but because Bethesda didn't have to change any of their marketing materials beyond reflecting the new rating, I'm confident in my claim that the game was never marketed to kids in the first place.

Andrew Eisen

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finaleve August 21 2006, 12:39:01 UTC
Seriously...I only know of 2 Instances where content wasn't seen, and even if this act was enforced, what the hell would it change if this was enforced before those 2 instances.

NOTHING!!!!

So toss this crap out...it ain't gonna help.

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he's funny enmitywithin August 21 2006, 12:59:56 UTC
you think you can attack an industry making false accusations such as "relying on reviews that has led to numerous problems with inappropriate content being marketed to children"

1. name how the game is being marketed
2. name how the "inappropriate content" is being marketed

if you cna't answer within 10 seconds, you fail.

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Rate the entire game, huh? gamereviewgod August 21 2006, 13:06:33 UTC
They should have pushed harder, especially with the "full content before rating" issue. I really want to hear him respond about how they're supposed to play 60 years of a franchise in Madden.

Figure 15 games a year (not even including playoffs) at around an hour each game, and you're looking at 900 hours of gameplay time. Wouldn't the ESRB need to play the entire franchise mode to ensure something doesn't show up in year 45? Technically, simming seasons all the way there wouldn't work either because they wouldn't be playing the games now would they?

He doesn't seem to have any grasp on what the games entail or how physically impossible it would be to play each game completely, and that's pathetic. He should NOT be speaking out against them in that case, but hey, facts are meaningless, right?

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Re: Rate the entire game, huh? gamepolitics August 21 2006, 18:33:05 UTC
good point re: Madden.

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Re: Rate the entire game, huh? hayabusa75 August 21 2006, 19:56:23 UTC
JC did ask him that, but to everyone's utter shock, he completely evaded the question.

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