What if the M Rating is to benefit the Adult multiplayers who just want to play with other Adults? lol
They aren't "inappropriate for children" - there's zero evidence that violent video games cause any issues with children. Tons and tons of kids play pubg, Rainbow 6, COD, etc. Those games are all filled with kids.
What is appropriate or inappropriate for kids is up to the parents (as it should be). If someone buys a COD game for their 12 year old is it going to turn into national news? Of course not... happens all the time.
What is "inappropriate" is up to parents, not something for the government or businesses to decide. The labels are just there as a guide for parents and to help prevent kids from buying something that maybe their parents don't want them to have.
Just labeling something "problematic" without specific context is useless.
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This. The game is not the issue. Parents letting games/TV parent for them is. The world was a far more violent place than it is now long before the advent of TV and gaming. Kids need real world context and guidance. That is for the parent to do. There is no way to legislate it away. It's cultural.
I think it's also political in that the Economy is often problematic. I think a lot of people are under financial and career pressure and that makes it hard to focus on family. It might even contribute everyone seeking escapism and paying less attention to each other.
Television News and Talk Radio demogogues probably make all this far worse making people even more fearful and angry. This combined with social media is probably a more toxic combination than any influence coming from videogames.
So if you don't think any violent video games are at all realistic, then why are they inappropriate for some audiences?
It won't let me click the "agree" button more than once, so ill just quote you and say something along the lines of what most others have been saying.This. The game is not the issue. Parents letting games/TV parent for them is. The world was a far more violent place than it is now long before the advent of TV and gaming. Kids need real world context and guidance. That is for the parent to do. There is no way to legislate it away. It's cultural.
Just labeling something "problematic" without specific context is useless.
People trying to pin blame on these things (music, tv, movies) is what is "problematic" because it's the easy scapegoat and draws the attention away from the actual problem- which is probably impossible to fix, and we don't like to think there are issues with that level of difficulty to tackle. Especially since no single entity can do it. It has to come from individuals in their own lives.
A school shooting happens and people act like it's some substantial issue with the majority of people. It's not. ONE jacked up kid did it. The thousands (and millions across the nation) of others did not. We hear about school shootings and because of national media, it amplifies to an unrelatable level.
There are something like 37,000 (public and private) High Schools in the US. Even if there were 10 high casualty shootings happening per year (like this recent one, not the low income areas with gang-violence related shootings), that doesn't even rate statistically. Yet we act like this is rife in US schools.
The more important stat (outside of our fear for the possibility of harm to our kids) is that overall violent crime is on the decline. Figuring out why people are doing what they are doing in these incidences, and how the systems in place are failing us, is a more appropriate focus, imo.