Canadian retailers will stop selling violent and offensive games to anyone under 18
The Retail Council of Canada has started a "Commitment to Parents" program that will limit access to age-restricted games by children.
From CTV, "The Council announced Thursday that that 90 per cent of its members have agreed to voluntarily stop selling and renting age-restricted games to underage children."
"Store owners will ask young people for identification. Those who don't meet age requirements won't be allowed to make a purchase."
"It will be a voluntary program based on the ratings already on video game boxes. The change will take effect during the upcoming holiday shopping season."
"The program already been in place for three years in British Columbia and it's now being expanded into Manitoba and Ontario."
will this occur all around the world or just in some areas if so tell me which areas the qustion is to stop selling games to under age childern
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on 10/14 at 04:01 PM
Nice theory, but the moment these new participants see this cutting into their sales they'll bail out on it and it will be bussiness as usual.
Look, this is mom and dad's job plain and simple. Kids, grab a few of your video game cases and go pry mom and dad off the couch and away from the TV for a moment so they can see this ... I'll wait for ya.
Hi Mom, hi Dad. I'm DN. Seems that there has been a great deal of habub over violence in video games (this all started in 1992 over a game called "Night Trap" so this thing has been going for about 12 plus years now). Since then, an organization called the ESRB has been giving game ratings to video games to let us know what is in them. [Kids - hand a case to your mom and dad] Mom and dad, look at the front of the video game box (open it like a book - the front will be in your left hand). See that little box in the lower left hand corner? That is the game's rating and in the top of that box it says who the game is suitible for (the game I grabbed has an M rating : age 17+ - like an R rating). Now turn the box over. Look in the lower right hand corner on the back of the game - you'll see the rating again. You will also see WHY the game in question got that rating (mature humour, violence, gore, etc.). Now, if you see something in that box on the back that you don't think your child should be seeing - DON'T LET THEM HAVE IT.
See? Now how hard was that? You don't understand this? Go to http://www.esrb.com they will clear it up for you.
Seriously, if and when a parent does what a parent is supposed to do, they will never have to worry about their kids getting and playing games they don't want them to. And to do it is easy. Rise up out of your own narcissism, pull the cell phone out of your ear, set your golf clubs down, and pry yourself away from the TV and the catalogue for the latest SUV that only gets 2 mpg and take an active role in your children's lives. You say your parents bailed on you - sorry to hear that. Don't bail on YOUR kids.
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