Most annoying gaming problem ever.

[Ink Hammer]

Ok so im 16 and i quite regularly take a trip to my local GAME to purchase the newest in gaming revalations. The problem i quite often come across is stupid staff mistakeing difficulty rating for age rating, i cant remember what the game was (an RTS of some description) but it had a difficulty rating of 21+ and as such i was not allowed to purchase it. Why would i have to be 21 when your an adult at 18?! Does anyone else have simlar issues?

 

[Aerach]

The trick is to smile real pretty and bat your eye lashes, either that or offer them an extra "tree fiddy".

 

[Ink Hammer]

The trick is to smile real pretty and bat your eye lashes, either that or offer them an extra "tree fiddy".

Rofl, i enjoyed the chefs dad referance.

 

[theklng]

don't you have the pegi like the rest of europe? in case you're talking about the pegi, it's not a difficulty rating, it's a vulgar content rating, where an age is based upon what the game contains.

i know that some places it is law that you cannot sell a minor (which you still are at the age of 16) a game intended for mature audiences.

 

[smallharmlesskitten]

steam sucking in offline mode

 

[Squeaksx]

Sounds to me as if your region's rating system is not very user-friendly. Sadly though I cannot relate to the whole difficulty rating because the ESRB never seems to put that in. I wouldn't mind it though since some games I've tried are either bewildering easy or hard. I doubt an age rating would be ideal since that doesn't really imply much. I would go with a very easy, easy, medium, hard, very hard, hardcore. Simple enough yeh? Well then get to it.

 

[Aerach]

The trick is to smile real pretty and bat your eye lashes, either that or offer them an extra "tree fiddy".

Rofl, i enjoyed the chefs dad referance.

Haha, my pleasure.

Completely off-topic : Is that avatar you? Cause it's cracking me up!

 

[CriMs0nC0bra]

I've never had that problem. I'm also 16 and I've bought plenty of M rated games.
Most of the time they don't ask. If they do, the secret is to bring a friend who will vouch for you.