Govt to consider R classification for games

[mad-saint-guy]

I'm 15 and sure as hell wouldn't let an R rating stop me from getting a game I wanted. I never had any trouble getting MA games/movies in the past few years, and I was even given an 18+ band at Soundwave last week that lets you into the bar area!

The whole rating system is only really viable if a kid has extremely tight and 'proper' parents and has no other close relations/friends over 18. Obviously at a very young age you won't want kids seeing non-stop violence, swearing and sex, but if they do then the chances are that their parents are deadbeats who will raise the kid to be a moron anyway. But after 14-15, teenagers will get what they want somehow.

If the government really doesn't want u/18's playing those games then what they're doing at the moment is probably the best way to stop them, but I still fail to see how a video game would corrupt a child's mind. Does someone really become so much more mature on their 18th birthday compared to the 2-3 years before that?

 

[Conan Troutman]

I find it funny that Atkinson says in his speech...

"I want to try to protect children from being able to access computer-generated pornography and violence."

lol, where's the parental lock on life?

Just a bit more realistic and interactive than video games I reckon. If he was truly serious in his banning crusade, he'd try to ban all R rated media, and be laughed at even harder in the process, then try to ban life, and get himself sent away to be examined.

or what about the other causes of violence....

where's the parental lock on money, greed, religion, etc etc? Maybe just a bit more influencial overall than video games I would guess.

What this guy is doing is useless. Violence is everywhere already - long before video games. Putting a band aid over video games is a temporary fix and does bugger all. Like I said earlier, he be better off trying to fix the world.

 

[Kerrby]

So what happened? Did this get approved?

{Edit} We'll find out in five days or so .

 

[melbournemartin]

They know that kids under 18 will just download the R rated games if they can't buy them from the store. That's why they want a complete ban to continue.

 

[footyfreak]

They know that kids under 18 will just download the R rated games if they can't buy them from the store. That's why they want a complete ban to continue.

WTF

You do realise there is a world out there beyond Australia don't you?

A complete ban does stuff all when some 13 year old is downloading the game from half way around the world. All the ban does is give lazy parents even more reason to parent badly as they foolishly think their little darling can't get his hands on the game coz the ****ing idiot AG from SA banned it.

 

[Sanguinarius]

the SA GG is an embarassment

 

[Kerrby]

So what happened?

 

[Mr Eagle]

AGs couldn't agree, so it's going to public consultation. Not sure on the details of that though...

http://www.theage.com.au/news/techn...e-rating-change/2008/03/28/1206207383592.html

 

[Kerrby]

That's a good first step I think. I think that there will eventually be an R18 classification.