The AO Rating

This rating seems like something that shouldn't exist. Not only is the AO rating only made for porn games (with a few exceptions such as Hatred or Manhunt 2 but those usually get AO slapped on only when enough people get upset over it) but it implies that sex is something so bad that even a woman getting her spine ripped out is more appropriate to see. Even worse when AO is considered a death sentence to anything physical because most stores, Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo don't allow said products on their shelves/consoles. Seems more like a tool to demonize sexual content instead of it just being a rating.

How do you guys feel about the AO rating?

who cares

But sex is bad OP, the magic crucified kike told me.

Teen and AO are the only ratings publishers care about. Teen grabs the largest audience while AO is a death sentence. Some companies, like NOA, while censor things to justify the Teen rating. Of course their reasoning is most likely bullshit and they probably censor so much to justify them getting paid more for their culturalization.

I don't understand why amerifats can't just use PEGI like the rest of the civilised world.

isn't pegi just european? Not exactly civilized.

They know exactly what they are doing.

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Ratings mean shit.

Every time you go to a R rated movie, it's full of kids.

Fuck off Eurocuck, go lick Islamic anus.

The only people who would care about ratings are underage faggots that can't get the game, which leads me to believe you are an underage faggot who should stop posting on 8ch during school.

Don't forget COWADOODY, RATED M FOR MATURE.

Even AIDSMoby is a better parent, not letting his son play BONERSTORM 3: THE BLOODSHITTENING at a young age.

Why do you care about the AO rating, you're not under 21 are you?

He probably is, it's still summer.

Can we just make this a Kamidori thread?
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You've finally caught up with the rest of us OP. No shit the ESRB is moral policing and a total scam to regulate the industry, and NA has completely backward understandings concerning violence and nudity. Next week you'll post a thread about your revelation that used games are where stores make their profit, and that video games don't cause violence.

The Gods are not that merciful.

What. His entire post is about how AO is a death sentence for a game since nobody will carry it and that the only thing that will guarantee such a rating is sexual content, hence it generates a chilling effect.

What's funny is that DOAX3 didn't even get an American release despite the fact that it wouldn't even have gotten an M rating.

I might just end up making a Kamidori thread soon.

But is has an English option because they knew Americans would want it, so you can order it through an importer and play it without the moonrunes.

The AO rating would be fine if it just worked like PEGI18.
Sadly ESRB AO rated games can't be sold in shops while PEGI18 rated games are.

Secondly why doesn't Sony or Valve have a special "18 only" zone on their store?

Videogames isn't just for kids anymore.

Ratings are bullshit at this point.

Wow it's nothing.
How old do you have to be to see something in the US if you're with your parent?

Yo, I would be up in that. Hit me up when you do.

I'll be sure to PM you the link.

There's G, PG, PG-13, R and NC-17 in the US. If you're with your parent as a child, you can see everything including rated R films. The only films children can't see at all are NC-17 films which are as common and as supported as the AO rating in videogames.

Well sex is a private thing between a man and a woman. Maybe you should learn to stop being a massive fucking degenerate who only thinks with his dick.

There are great stories of parents taking children to see Deadpool, only to complain

It's good that the AO rating exists, it's bad that retailers and platform manufacturers decided right off the bat that anything bearing it deserves to be banned from sale. That is what has led to this abominable situation where the AO rating is to be avoided at all costs. Not that the ESRB is that draconian in applying AO. Publishers and their affiliated localization teams mostly use it as a bullshit excuse to cut things they find distasteful, or things that might keep them from the "broader audience."

the AO is more of a threat to developers than an actual rating. as hatred showed us, the AO rating is arbitrary and has no foundation in relation to levels of violence or sex in a game. a handful of yahoos at the ESRB dictate it without even playing the game

It's like no one even reads the whole post before posting. It's about demonizing sex, using the AO rating as a tool to control what's created instead of to warn the customers, and implies that somehow murder is more appropriate to see than sex. It's an ass backwards system as people in this thread have already shown.

Having healthy sexual views is hateful and bigoted, goy.

Welcome to America.

We should do away with ESRB as videogames are just fiction and it's scientifically prove that they don't have an effect on your psychology. Do fucking books need an ESRB? No.

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How much nutrients you intake, your environment, ethnicity, and how your peers treat you has a much larger affect on how any child develops. My brothers grew up watching porn and playing violent video games yet they didn't turn out to be sexual deviants that only get off to guro. Despite all the resources we have today, the biggest problem for children growing up are bad parents who would rather put the blame on fictional works than actually raise their children.

Can you have sex with 11 year old boys with blonde hair in Sweden?

Nope.
More games should either disregard censorship and govts/parasites, or be made for Adults.