I am sure this is old new but I just learned about it today when I went to gamestop. Apparently you have to be 18 years old to buy M rated games which are supposedly 17 plus. What is going on? ( I am 17 btw and outraged at this). What do you guys think?
yea, that makes no seance, ...or at least it must make seance to the ESRB, but who actually thinks like them. (cartoon violence, don't all games have some type of violence, except puzzle games)
Yeah I will definitely try a different store.. but does anyone know anything about this being enforced everywhere starting January and the M rating becoming 18+ ?
i think its because some M games have nudity and they feel the need to boost it up an age lvl because of those games i dont see why they dont just rate those specific games AO and keep the system how it is
There is no age you have to be, legally. Some stores have policies, which can vary. While it technically should be 17, companies are stupid and may not always be the case.
Ultimately, it is up to the store's policy on the games. I have seen it requiring age 18 before, and I agree that it should be 17 if that is the rating, but I also feel that AO titles should be available in stores as well. In the future game sales will become more and more restricted until enough gamers are old enough to replace the pre-gamer generation.
I hhate it when shops say ure to young i cant sell it to ya sorry(im currently 13) , i dont go to that gameshop anymore i just go to a other shop and i did get the game i wanted ( scareface ps2) i hate that rubbish man... just say when they wont sell it to ya ohh u dont want the money no problem i get it somewhere else
In Europe, games display an age rating, not a general category, so things are a bit less confusing. For example, GTA is always 18+, and so is every other violent game. Some mature games, mostly horror games that are not too realistic in their depictions of violence, have a 16+ rating.
Most finnish stores sell all games to 12-year-olds.RK-Mara
Yeah, it all depends ongovernment regulations. The european PEGI ratings are not legally binding, if there's no state law that prohibits their sale to minors. It's just there as a guideline.
same thing happened to me when I tried to buy god of war 2, they said I couldnt buy it because I was underage and all this b/s and isnt 17 the legal age to buy rated M games or was it gamestop just being pricks with me
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