Thursday, July 21, 2005

ESRB maked GTA:SA AO PDQ

The ESRB has changed Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas's rating from Mature to Adults Only, the rating usually reserved for pornography. Major retailers like Walmart, Target, and Best Buy are pulling the game.

Michele is opining that ratings themselves are stupid. I don't think so. I realize that parents don't have time to do the research on everything their kids are watching. Ratings serve as a tool to give them an idea of what is in the content of the game. This is why the ESRB required Rockstar to submit the entire contents of the game for review no matter how easily they can be accessed. Rockstar failed to meet their obligations.

Here is a previous post on the topic of GTA:SA and hot coffee.

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