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This is Why ESRB Ratings are actually Meaningless
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There is many times that the ESRB rating system has proven itself to be a flawed system when rating video games like Halo, GTA, Oblivion and many more. To the point where some people might say the ESRB rating system is actually meaningless.
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@RocketSloth

9 months ago

Had to re-upload the video because youtube is silly. thanks everyone who watched to the end to help the algorithm gods :)

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@dood3530

9 months ago

ESRB: "Gambling with fake money bad" Also ESRB: "Gambling with real money good"

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@LozadaPR

9 months ago

kids explaining to their parents why they should play GTA

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@Matt-zu2lu

9 months ago

Parents: We need a way to be able to tell what games are and are not appropriate for our children!!! American Government: Okay, we made the ESRB which will tell you if what games are and are not appropriate for children. Parents: buys their kids M rated games Holy crap! This game is so graphic! How were we ever able to know that?!?!

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@sandwichboy1268

9 months ago

The ESRB is crazy. Modded content can pull up a game's rating but sports branding can pull down a slot machine's rating

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@catholiccontriversy

9 months ago

As a kid with a mom that was pretty strict with the ratings, E10 was actually a really good rating, because when she heard "teen" she was thinking "highschool teenager," whereas E10 is "this isn't for 5 year olds but it isn't inappropriate for older kids."

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@joekopel

9 months ago

Having worked in a gaming store chain for 6 years I can tell you, most parents don't care about the ratings. They just want their child to have the game to shut them up. Legit! Tried to explain to a parent about GTA 4 at the time and the exact response was he wants it, so I'm buying it.

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@radnwavy5531

9 months ago

The fact that there's a 17+ and an 18+ rating kinda fascinates me. That's a little too granular. Why didn't they make M 18+

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@blikthepro972

9 months ago

the problem has stopped being that kids are being exposed to violence, it's that kids are being exposed to gambling and spending money on cosmetics. if the esrb system were to be reworked, it should base ratings with gambling first and violence second, and be much more strict and punishing for gambling (example: covering half the box of the game with a giant text saying "this game contains transactions that request real money to give you a chance at winning")

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@TrapeZoid_-117

9 months ago

The problem with the ESRB is that it causes two different responses in parents. They either stick to it so strictly that they end up preventing their kid from playing a game they could easily handle or they ignore it completely and buy their kid the most inappropriate games on the market. It’s not that difficult to have a middle ground if you look at the box for 2 seconds. Like, my dad always checked the back of the box to see exactly why a game got a certain rating so he could decide if it was appropriate. “Rated M due to violence? Sure, he can get that one.” Or “Oh, sexually explicit content. Put that one back.”

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@rexarn781

9 months ago

When i was at gamestop one time i was about 14 and the employee legit had me call my dad to approve buying an 18+ game. That was the funniest thing ever 😂

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@jondon1079

9 months ago

The fact that YouTube forces you to censor the word "Swastikas" at 16:46 when discussing how the German rating system has become more lax as of late is some next level irony.

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@YourPoopDealer

9 months ago

I feel like trying to use strict age brackets is kinda difficult, even arbitrary. Instead, maybe moving towards a system to more effectively pronounce the things in a game that might be worthy of pointing out as its own specific seal on the front. If a game has gore, have a seal on the front that has a simple outline like you'd see on warning posters with "GORE" underneath it. If it has elements of gambling or microtransactions/lootboxes, then add a "gambling" label next to the gore label. Some parents don't care about if their kid is playing a game with gore and violence, but change tune when they realize their child is being psychologically targeted with gambling. Simply slapping an M on the front might not make enough of a difference for them to notice.

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@Skarz1989

9 months ago

This dude called Night Trap "1992 Five Nights at Freddie's" and I absolutely can't unsee it now

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@8stormy5

9 months ago

Oof, I remember having to negotiate HARD with my parents about ESRB ratings because they did (and still do) not really understand what a video game is and took those rating very strictly. Case in point, I was not allowed to buy a single-player poker game for the Wii because it was rated T for gambling... even though my dad had already taught me how to play poker.

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@ihatehandlestheyareannoying

6 months ago

I think it'd be better if ratings were swapped out for a quick list of possibly inappropriate things a game has. This would not say "you need to be this old to play this game", just more of a "hey this game includes these things, are you ok with that?" and I think that would work much better.

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@vullord666

9 months ago

Imagine parents actually parenting and just looking up information about the games their kids want to buy and watching gameplay videos or trying it themselves, or otherwise watching their kids while they play video games and making sure its not affecting them negatively… instead of insisting they get laws telling them what’s okay and then getting censorships in M rated games when they ignore those.

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@ZanakinzMedia

9 months ago

Gaming rating systems are ridiculous and sometimes corrupt. Any real parent should do research on games before they buy it for their children. If they don't, then that's on them for being a bad parent. Simple answers are sometimes the best....

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@splat-a-tat6780

9 months ago

I just want to correct for AA: Dual Destinies that the reason it was rated M was probably because of the fact that some of the anime cutscenes have a TON of blood in them compared to other entries. It’s nothing serious but it’s frequently used as a shock factor. The sequel to the game was also on the 3DS and rated T so it wouldn’t make sense the 3D feature bumped it up.

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@d0rban

9 months ago

And remember: age ratings don’t substitute proper parenting

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