PoisonUnagi said:
StriderShinryu said:
PoisonUnagi said:
StriderShinryu said:
PoisonUnagi said:
Wait, remind me why I care again?
You shouldn't care.. if you're okay with the potential of every game being as mature as Barbie Pony Adventures that is. If you, on the other hand, actually enjoy games that take on challenging story content or involve some level of blood/gore then you might want to start caring.
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Look at my profile, then post again.
Figured I'd check it out.. what is it I was supposed to see that was going to change my mind? I did notice your most recent Steam game was TF2, which involves gun violence towards human like characters. That's the sort of thing that might end up tossed in the trash can should the case Yahtzee is referring to end up going against gamers.
Ugh, looks like I have to do this for you. Hang on a moment.
Thanks for the effort, and I figured that's what you may have been referring to though I was kind of hoping you had something else up your sleeve that I was missing as what you're pointing out has already been dealt with.
I'm sure NZ is a beautiful place but I'm really not sure how many games get made there though, especially without intent to sell them in the US. As others have already said numerous times, if the case Yahtzee is talking about goes through then there will be a legal age restriction in the US, which I'm taking it you get. What you don't seem to be considering is what sort of company that puts videogames in with. Stores, especially big American ones with the type of economic placement like WalMart, will almost certainly not carry something that is legally age restricted (like, say, pornography). If stores don't carry legally age restricted games then they will not be made and, on top of that, this case would set a precedent that would allow the type of material considered restrictive to be decided upon by people who don't actually play or care about games. It would start with easy targets like Postal or Manhunt type ultra violence, but just look at how riled up non-gamers got over the "sex-scene" in Mass Effect or just the option to attack police officers in GTA and so on.
If you're still left wondering why yourself, a happy resident of NZ, should care just consider the size of your native market compared to the US. The US is the biggest market in the world for games, and it includes many of the biggest game development companies. As I stated above, if US companies can't sell their own mature games in their own country they're not going to make special versions with all the mature stuff that can be sold elsewhere, they're just going to water everything down until it can be sold. If game companies in Japan or the UK can't sell their mature games to the dominant market that is the US then they will either restrict foreign development altogether or will be forced to edit their content to match US standards. Also consider that once a ruling like this goes forward in the US, governments outside of the US will have even more ammunition to crack down further on mature games in their own backyard.