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Originally Posted by Clickme
No, they provide recommendations, but ultimately parents choose what to buy a child, or what they let them play (via parental controls).
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If a parent does actually look at the recommendations, they are still depending on the ESRB to decide whether a game gets T, M or E. If a parent tells their child that they can't play any M games, that decision is based on what the ESRB determines is appropriate for an M rating, so the parent is still ceding the decision to the ratings board.
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Originally Posted by Clickme
If the government steps in with their legal penalties, retailers are more likely to simply NOT stock those games anymore, like AO-games.
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What retailers stock AO games? When a game gets retroactively re-rated as AO (like GTA:SA) it gets yanked from store shelves.
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Originally Posted by Clickme
And as started in the arguments, there is not clear-cut line to be drawn between what is acceptable violence and what is unacceptable violence as defined by this CA law. Unless you happen to be Vulcan and then you're fucked.
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It's a dumb law. I won't try to defend it. My point is that the system we have now is just as arbitrary and out of our control. I think we all prefer the executives to the government because it's easier to influence greedy businessmen with our money than it is moralizers with our votes for re-election (gamers don't vote as much as retirees).