ESRB tones down age gate rules

Wait, you mean 90% of the active internet community WASN'T born on January 1st, 1900?!

MADNESS, I SAY!

Gamespot is worst about these age gates. A tiny drop down menu (even in 1080p) and mouse wheel dowsnt work over it. It is the worst I encountered.

what does this change? alot of people lie about their b'day anyway

Well, based on the comments, not only is this article really pointless, but the whole thing to begin with was mind scratchingly stupid. I was actually confused as to why they ever did it. I mean it's like when I go to a store and buy beer and they ask me for my birthdate instead of wanting to see my ID, WTF is that?

Bout damn time ... people shouldve realised that the number of people born 1/1/1911 is TOO DAMN HIGH

I was born on February 2nd but I always leave the age gate at January 1st & quickly scroll to the 1960's LOL

if you're too stupid to not know how to overcome an age gate then you're probably not very smart to begin with

Good. Age gates are useless anyway. It doesn't take an Einstein to figure out you can just enter 01/01/1970 or something similar and you're in. It's not like anyone is verifying...

These have never done anything to prevent anything and are only wastes of time and money to implement. 

I always chose a random year.  Because  was a lot easier than entering my birthday.

I don't think 6 year olds should be watching the latest God of War trailer with bare-breasted women, but it's not like these ridiculous age gates were stopping them anyway. 
If you're underage all it takes is one encounter with an age gate before you realize, "Oh! All I have to do is lie and they'll let me in."

ESRB could of said one of the reasons they got rid of the age gate for M-Rated video game trailers are people were able to bypass it by lying about their birth date. 

Good. Why the internet had to be policed like that was annoying. I'm glad I don't have to be born in 1929 anymore.

Finally! This was something that always made me feel old because I've had to scroll down to find my birth year ;)

Never bothered me nor needed to lie either. 

Aww, I thought my comment was rather funny. Looks like GS deleted it. Now I gotta wait around to get an inbox of them yelling at me :/ *sighs* what a drag... Thought I was in the parameters too. Well, Sorry I broke the rules.

Good now I don't have to just type in a random month day year to watch these trailers.

Thank god. I'm a Web Designer and this practice is user-interface fundamentals suicide.

Now, if only YouTube toned down THEIR age gate rules...

It must have been shocking to them how many over 100-year-old people watch game trailers, that made them sad and decided to remove the age gate.

i was always at least 100 years old on those things.

Amazing how many people are born january the first when you think about it.

Took them long enough. It was a broken system. 

Im 23 now, and still say i was born in 1900 lol. old habits die hard.

Yesss, now I won't feel the need to make an account to every friggen gaming site to avoid this flawed nonsense.

Dumbest system ever created -_-

Are they saying they can't post videos that haven't been rated now? That's what I got out of it anyway. I'm pretty tired though.

When I was -4, I would just enter a fake bday like jan 1, 1979. This was the most dumbest thing anyone could do. It was more annoying than helpful. I'm 20 now and I still find that crap annoying.

Yea this system was just an annoyance, stop trying to regulate the internet idiots.

Please. Like this thing actually works. I always set my age to something like 60 just so I can bypass the thing as quickly as possible.

lol has this realy stopped anyone? you can set your date of birth year to 1900 on most of em and bypass any if not all of em

Thank god they've finally removed a system that simply did nothing but cause a nuisance!  

So the ESRB realized anybody, regardless of age, can say they're over the Mature Rated Age and watch the video?  Or the fact that most of these games show the same ads on TV during popular shows?

Those things are useless im over 18 and i still lie i dont want people having info about me.

I wonder how many kids lied about being born on January the 1st in the 60s for them to actually realize it now.

Lmao who even takes the time to put in their actual age? So worthless. 

If 1Guy1Jar doesn't have an age gate... nothing should.

The Age gate only works in the mind of what ever dumb ass that came up with it... I generally enter 01\01\1900, it lets me through without questioning if I really am the old person alive or not.