NY State passes video game law

kaimera

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN2233072520080723

Compulsory game labels on rated games and parental controls on (new?) will there be?) consoles by 2010.

Seems other states tried to pass similar laws but failed.

Otacon

I actually think this is a good thing.

If after these new game ratings come in, a kid in NY blows his school up and the media blame it on a video game, can the publisher not say, but it had a rating of 18s, what was he doing playing it?

Course thats exactly what should be happening now..? :pac:

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

ah bloomberg, ruining new york one law at a time.

Saruman

I thought all games already have this? Im sure any time i pick up a violent game there is a rating on it.

delly

Game labels on games just makes sense, no?

delly

Saruman wrote: »

I thought all games already have this? Im sure any time i pick up a violent game there is a rating on it.

Its self regulated, and is not written in law.

kaimera

Saruman wrote: »

I thought all games already have this? Im sure any time i pick up a violent game there is a rating on it.

its labels isn't it?

Is it like the films - age rating but also a label saying contains sex/violence etc etc?

From my reading of it it's not compulsary ratings.

madrab

is it any different from having age ratings on games we have here?

Otacon

Unless its like the label on cigarette packets:

"Gaming kills!"

"May cause violent outbursts... and heart disease"

kaimera

"May make young men sterile"

"Will not attract chics"

noodler

A woman in Game on Dawson ST (or was it EB at the time?) wouldn't give me Tomb Raider 3 becasue it had an ELSPA thing of 15 or 16 I think.

I tried to tell her it was onlt a guideline and not law like a 15s or 18s and told her Id just get it from Grafton st if she didnt.

She didnt so I did.

Also, I bought the San Andreas guide from Game on Henry street and was asked how old I was, I was like....20...why?

Seifer

While it may not be law it's store policy so she can't sell it to someone under age without risking her job.
I don't think any games should have ratings of 18+. As long as gta is kept out of the hands of little kids then its fine. It comes down to the parents anyway. If a kid manages to get hold of a game they shouldn't then their parents should be the one's that notice and intervene. Blaming the games companies is a cop out of the highest order.

astrofool

noodler wrote: »

A woman in Game on Dawson ST (or was it EB at the time?) wouldn't give me Tomb Raider 3 becasue it had an ELSPA thing of 15 or 16 I think.

I tried to tell her it was onlt a guideline and not law like a 15s or 18s and told her Id just get it from Grafton st if she didnt.

She didnt so I did.

Also, I bought the San Andreas guide from Game on Henry street and was asked how old I was, I was like....20...why?

You obviously look like a child, so were asked for proof of age.

K.O.Kiki

Fear.
They think you're a homicidal maniac after playing all them VIDJA GAMES about baby-raping prostitute-murderers.

Vegeta

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

Fear.
They think you're a homicidal maniac after playing all them VIDJA GAMES about baby-raping prostitute-murderers.

Hmmmm I am indeed interested in your baby-raping prostitute-murderers game.

When is it released and how much shall it be

I need to get lessons to become a more efficient rapist/murderer.

Kids should not play inappropriate games etc, we all agree on this. It would be easier if the stores asked everyone for id when buying them though. That way a person who looked older might not get the game by using saved pocket money behind their parents back.

Retr0gamer

Vegeta wrote: »

It would be easier if the stores asked everyone for id when buying them though. That way a person who looked older might not get the game by using saved pocket money behind their parents back.

They do this all the time in america no matter what age you look.

noodler

I always thought of the old ratings thing on the back of games as more of a guideline as to what age groups would be able to manage it.

Tomb Raider for Fecks sake?

I do look child like, every bouncer in Ireland asks me for ID.

Shiminay

I'd personally have absolutely no problem with the Film Censor board (for example) rating games that makes it law rather than the guideline tags on the back AS LONG AS it didn't delay the release in any way, shape or form. I would also like to see useless parents getting prosecuted for every time their kids watch a film or play a game that is outside of their age group. Similarly, I'd like to see shops that sell to underage kids prosecuted.

I don't think any right minded adult can have a problem with these sorts of things - it's not censorship to have things rated by their content. It is censorship to ban them for their content though and I'm firmly against that (in any form).

Genghiz Cohen

Kharn wrote: »

I'd personally have absolutely no problem with the Film Censor board (for example) rating games that makes it law rather than the guideline tags on the back AS LONG AS it didn't delay the release in any way, shape or form. I would also like to see useless parents getting prosecuted for every time their kids watch a film or play a game that is outside of their age group. Similarly, I'd like to see shops that sell to underage kids prosecuted.

I don't think any right minded adult can have a problem with these sorts of things - it's not censorship to have things rated by their content. It is censorship to ban them for their content though and I'm firmly against that (in any form).

+1

The parental lockout function on consoles will further shift blame to where it should be right now too.

Nailz

Was Manhunt 2 banned in NY State? I taught it wasn't too bad, although it was disturbing and wierd for the most part.