Rating boards are unnecessary

[Xiahou Ba]

How can you "accidentally" post another post? Do you unintentionally click on the "reply" button, then press the "post" button accidentally? I know the SMF has a system that prevents accidental posting because the server takes too long to respond (it happened to me before)

 

[chillv]

How can you "accidentally" post another post? Do you unintentionally click on the "reply" button, then press the "post" button accidentally? I know the SMF has a system that prevents accidental posting because the server takes too long to respond (it happened to me before)

No, I click the "quote" button instead of clicking edit on my last post and clicking "quote". I sometimes forget that I wasn't editing my last post but instead making another post. So that's how the double posting occurs. Let me give an example.

Spoiler

1. Quotes someone's post to reply to it
2. Submit the post
3. Sees someone elses post and clicks quote but forgets that it won't add a quote to your previous post unless you put it into edit mode.
4. Replies and clicks submit
5. Notices that a double post has been made instead of both quotes being in one post

So it has nothing to do with my clicking reply but it has to do with me clicking quote. I'm not so used to forums so I might make mistakes like that.

Anyways, lets get back on topic. We are talking about rating boards. Do they really need to exist.

To be honest, ratings do not determine whether you can take the contents of a game or not. Games used to not have ratings and nobody has ever complained about a game being too gory or scary for them (unless they are does whimps who always cry to mommy and daddy) and there have been a lot of scary and gory games before their were ratings.

And before anybody quotes about that scratched out text, that is only a joke. If anybody took offense to that, I apologize. It was not intentional.

 

[Xiahou Ba]

That I understand, but you should be more careful next time around

 

[Mario4Ever]

ChillV, what you don't understand is that the content of games in the recent years before the institution of rating systems became detailed and graphic enough to garner negative attention (Mortal Kombat is a commonly cited example), and advertisements did not always focus on that content (people did not always know exactly what content was in a game until they actually played it. This was the pre-Internet age, after all), so you can't use the fact that violent/graphic content existed in games before rating systems as a reason why rating systems are unnecessary, as it is that content that led to the creation of the rating systems in the first place.

 

[chillv]

Well, maybe the rating board should only give the content that is in the game and only give a warning if it is something like Mortal Kombat, GTA or COD. If they don't get rid of the rating boards they should find better ways to accurately classify a game. The ESRB have exaggerated and have even lied a few times which is not cool regardless of the fact that people don't pay that much attention to ratings.

 

[BEEEEEAAARRRS]

if no one pays attention is it really a big deal if esrb exaggerates sometimes

 

[Garlic Man]

The reason we have a privately-run rating board system is so we don't have the government rating games for us.

Same as movies.

 

[U freak]

If the game developers rated the games themselves, they have the potential to fool people as well.

This.

Rating boards such as ign and gamespot provide opinion. Some times they do have a tendency to exaggerate a bit on some games but they leave it to the consumer to make the decision in the end.

If dev's rated there own games, they could feed you any line of bogus they want and people would buy it and be fooled. Then there would be an uproar and then governments would pass laws and eventually, we won't games period.

So lets just let the game reviewers and boards do there job and we'll continue to buy games and deal with it as always.

 

[Toad Eightyfive]

^I think you're confusing game raters with game reviewers.

Game raters are those guys who put that black and white "E" on the box.

 

[U freak]

Oh the ESRB...

My mistake :P

 

[Xiahou Ba]

Well, you should get the hint if you know what ESRB stands for

Entertainment Software Rating Board. Hmm, two words from that are used in the topic title. I wonder what that could be?