You do what you feel you need to do, Microsoft. I don't care for this direction and have yet to see anything from it that satisfied me, let alone impressed me, and I won't be spending my money on it.
Are video games evil? No. Can they push bad thoughts on children? Potentially. But is it the government's position to become a parent? No.
If your dog attacks someone, you're responsible. If the brakes fail on your car (even when you're not there) and it rolls and hits someone/something, you're responsible. If your business burns down and someone dies inside because you didn't meet fire safety standards, you can be held responsible. If a child acts up at the grocery store, don't our minds blame the parents? So why don't we hold parents - who have the legal responsibility to take care of their underage children - responsible for the actions of their children?
Parents should be distinguishing the differences from right/wrong, reality/video games - not our government.
@DidymusRULES @SkytheWiz1 Who's in charge of that 12-year old? The parents. The gov't already has too much on their plate to handle it all with precision; they don't need to add parenting there.
If my child shoots up a school, I won't place blame anywhere except towards the person/thing that was responsible for my child: my wife and I.
If you feel the need to displace blame from you, so be it. I was raised with responsibility, however, and my video games haven't pushed me towards violence because I can compartmentalize - I've been taught which is real and which isn't; which is okay and which isn't.
Can people have wrong thoughts FROM video games? Absolutely - just like they can from movies. Just like they can from the news. Yet, no one's up in arms to say that "Maybe we shouldn't be showcasing all of these murderers on the news..." when a string of them happen within 2-3 months.
Again, it's the parents' responsibility - not the goverment's - to say "This is what the world is like, but you can be better than that."
People have killed one another for THOUSANDS OF YEARS. Pong, one of the earliest video games, came out in 1972 - thirty-one years ago.
Video games don't have a damn thing to do about it; it has to do with parents and environment. If you think your child will become dangerous from playing video game, that's a lack of parenting skills and teaching them right vs. wrong - not a video game problem.
Trying to add teamwork to CoD? Have you guys even sat and LISTENED to how badly people treat each other, on their own teams? This is going to be hilarious.
@JBStone1981 @SkytheWiz1 @AzlanJ @COPMAN221ISBACK I know where it comes from. I'm saying they're making it sound like they did us a favor when it was their fault to begin with. If you can't understand that, you probably shouldn't be throwing intellect-insults around.
@AzlanJ @COPMAN221ISBACK But they didn't make it based on us. They made it based on profit and are now spinning it to sound like they're heroes for it.
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