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(almost) every game is an offline game if you pirate it ;)

If the game isn't rated AO it shouldn't have an age verification.

R rating is fucking 17+ not 18+. R rating is still for minors.

If your game needs an age rating then you shouldn't be allowed to have an R rating straight to AO for you.

Oh what's that visa won't let you sell your AO rated game?

Too fucking bad.

Maybe find a better solution then. ):<

Is it even hard ro find someone's SSN anymore?

Same exact thought.

Then they double killed it when they started introducing nonsense like flying cars with rocket launchers.

It's M rated. M ratings are 17+ the ESRB rating for 18+ is AO.

M ratings are for minors, AO is for adults.

You need to ID to buy an AO game, you do not for M unless it's a individual store policy.

Due to anti porn sentiment and stores refusing to carry porn. Only 24 games have ever gotten the AO rating

It's considered a death flag.

It's much like how the Deadpool movie was R rated instead of pg13. This was considered a huge risk cause R rates movies don't make money was the common theory.

But even then R rating is also for minors. Movies have the NC-17 rating which is for 18+ and thus only adults. This would be the AO rating in games.

Stores and public facing businesses are so piss scared of having adult rated content even if it's not porn, just because of the vague idea that adult only content HAS to be porn cause "what else would it be"

That rating systems have undermined their very purpose and become fucking useless. It's why everything is only M rated instead of being AO when it really should be.

The point is to make children used to checks.

It's a didactic law.

IRL usually children grow up feeling they are free (except for their parents) to an extent.

This is intended so that identifying yourself in the Internet were normal by the time you grow up for it to matter.

But, of course, there might be some good considerations, if you're into playing devil's advocate. People might remember which stupid shit they were posting when they were younger, and want for future generations to be always conscious of the difference between pseudonymity and anonymity, and superficial anonymity vs real. People might want to make it so that nobody had a false sense of security, leading to really bad mistakes. People might want this to be the step preceding some way to fight bots.

And they might even not have good considerations, but eventually realize that the oppressive system they are building is best rebuilt for something better and used differently. Wouldn't be the first time in history.

It's just that laying down your arms in hopes for that is unwise.

maybe the goal is instead to try to get ahead of regulation by implementing a system that is easily bypassed by most kids (like these video based age estimations). Then they can show this to the regulator and be like: "look were already doing everything we can, no need to actually put the regulation in place".

Seriously. Our school had a presentation by a guy about kids and computer usage. The gist of it was: Roblox bad, because of paedophiles. GTA good, because it furthers role playing. Basically the opposite of the age recommendations.

Maybe that actually makes it playable. But who am I kidding?

Parents will just have their kids play on their accounts. This only hurts the average person who now needs to worry about who has that information and how it's secured.

age verification is just a BS strawman. do you remember when we where young? we would access stuff and find ways to buy stuff. but whenever there was a reasonable but fair gap, it would be much harder to get whatever we wanted: buying weed was so much easier, than buying alcohol (without the appropriate age).

pirating is easy (even i figured it out before having enough money to buy movies & games). so the kids will just pirate that stuff and get their way anyway. age verification at the store makes so much more sense. sure, there are ways to circumvent those. but it is a reasonable stop block.

My mum enjoyed the bonus level in the mall where you could just kill like 100 people as fast as you could.

Her favourite weapon is the flamethrower.

Her first reaction to the game was "that's disgusting", but I let her have a go and suddenly she was toasting a whole crowd and loving every minute of it.

They have way more investors to jerk off and please now

Can you call it that when chat is disabled anyway ; D

Wrong. You "lose" the age verification feature.

Or just start fucking using the AO rating.

GTA should have a fucking AO rating but because of money no game gets more then an M rating making the entire system pointless.