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Your other points are fair, and I'm not arguing them. My problem was the idiotic paragraph by the Escapist I quoted. I'm not defending the California law. As I said in my last response, I'd prefer the industry keeps control over its own monitoring activities rather than have a regulatory entity that will be controlled by people like Leland Yee.
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Re: Supreme Court to decide hte future of Video Games
Yes but YOU miss the point that Walmart is less likely to stock a game when there's a $1,000 fine on the line. They don't get fined for selling an M-game to a minor, but with this law, they WILL get fined if they are accused of sellign a V-game to a minor. IT becomes a liability at that point. Good and Logical business sense is to simply not stock said game type and therefore AVOID the issue altogether.
That's where the snowball effect starts. Less places selling that game means less money, less money means making different games to keep making money.
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The funnier part of this argument is that most large retailers have already instituted policies mimicking just this sort of trade-off where they trade the profits of game sales to people under 17 with good PR with parents. If you want to attack the legislation, attack it due to its vagueness, poor wording and lack of any labeling authority. It really is badly written and deserves all the criticism it gets.
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Re: Supreme Court to decide hte future of Video Games
Again miss one crucial point. It's still socially acceptable to smoke and drink, at least for the most part. Porn and things deemed obscene are not, hence why most stores won't stock pornography. The legislation would, as I said before, mark certain games as on the same level as pornography. So tell me, if stores like Wal-Mart don't sell porn, why would they sell games that are considered just as bad?
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Re: Supreme Court to decide hte future of Video Games
and it's that type of would it or wouldn't it confusion that will keep companies from taking ANY chances nad therefore not making those games, or neutering them beyond reason.
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The way the law is worded, it would likely spell the demise of the more violent T-rated games. The law basically divides games into two categories, violent "18" games and not as violent games. T games on the edge of being M would probably be nerfed so as to clearly not get the sticker and M games would end up with the sticker pretty much automatically. They might lose the 17-year olds, but the target market for M-rated games would basically be the same. The law doesn't actually ban anything.
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Look, Walmart adn Target and other stores that sell games as a side offering to their main stock of everything else are;t going to loose THAT much money by NOT stocking games. Whereas the fines could cost ...well a lot at $1,000 per offense. So what make more sense for them? A) Try to slap a sticker and hope they don't end up getting fined? or B) say "fuck it we've got TONS of products to sell and this games don't mean shit" and jsut not carry the games? And seriously, think it over this time before you simply respond with an argument.
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Porn isn't that high risk these days and it's definitely not unprofitable. It's considered unseemly. Even in the olden days before the Internet, book and magazine stores had an adult section. Wal-Mart doesn't sell porn because the owners have a policy against it, not because it isn't profitable. Violent video games are not porn.
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