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Originally Posted by kapol
Yes, but at the moment Wal-Mart isn't facing a huge fine or any real legal issues if they sell the game to a minor, which is what they'd be facing with any game covered by this act.
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Right, and no convenience store sells beer because no convenience store could face the legal issues of selling beer to someone underage. If the local bodega can do it, Wal-Mart can do it.
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Originally Posted by kapol
imagine a game like Bioshock had all blood removed, all human characters replaced with something non-human, and the entire 'little sister' concept taken out (after all, it gives the player the option to kill little girls). They'd have to think very strongly about each of those items before making a decision...[/URL]
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This is already being done right this moment. Games and edgy concepts (particularly sexual ones) are being censored right now by game designers who are targeting T or M and don't want to have the ESRB give them too high a rating or by the ESRB giving the game too high a rating and telling them to cut X, Y and Z to get the rating down to a T or M rating.
This trial is important, but the reasons the game industry and the retail industry give are complete bullshit. They simply don't want to give up control. I'd prefer them to have control as well, but not for any of the above nonsense.