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About LinkBacksRead more.Compared with the music and film industries, video game sellers are doing more to ensure children don't get their hands on inappropriate content.
Read more.Compared with the music and film industries, video game sellers are doing more to ensure children don't get their hands on inappropriate content.
It's up to the parents of the children to moniter online usage and downloads. The area of responsblity has changed.
Unlike retail stores where the area of responsiblity is the retailer.
Amazon said something about pre-screening of purchases by the parents. If more parents used payment systems like this, where they are able to screen the purchases of there children, then this would be a null issue.
You want to buy GTA5 son? That's an R18 game!
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Originally Posted by Spock
A lot of parents don't even bother with the ratings, although I would if I had kids ;-)
I have a 12 year old son and feel like I am fighting a losing battle against other parents who seem to ignore the ratings given to games and buy 16 and 18 rated games for there kids with total disregard to the content of the game.
In general retailers are good at refusing to sell inappropriate ratings to kids but I have often seen the parent take the game from the kids and pay for it themselves, in that situation the retailers are powerless.
And in the UK at the moment it's completely voluntary for retailers to adhere to the BBFC classifications.
In general retailers are good at refusing to sell inappropriate ratings to kids but I have often seen the parent take the game from the kids and pay for it themselves, in that situation the retailers are powerless.
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