@JEremy I think you might have missunderstood my points, or maybe sinse it
is getting a little late I did not put them clearly enough.
My point about miners was not to say "well people see this all the time so
it's okay" that is a pretty stupid ethical arguement sinse by that
deffinition any bad practice which has persisted could be maintained simply
on basis of tradition. my point was that "miner" is a pretty lose term.
Society and the law has these magic numbers around age. Suddenly at 15 or 16
(depending upon country), viewing of violence becomes okay. Suddenly at 18 a
person can decide to get married where they couldn't previously.
These rules are pretty dam arbitrary. I've met twelve year olds who's views,
outlook and maturity are closer to adult (heck I rather was one myself), and
I've met 30 year olds who still act like morons. The idea of an arbitrary
limit, particularly on something like viewing or watching certain subject is
pretty odd in and of itself.
Thus, all a developer can do is give a warning and advice and leave things
up to the individuals involved and their parents.
I also frankly disagree with you about either printed materials or credit
cards, sinse both would make it harder to pay for the game for everyone else
much less have a playable demo, (besides I , and plus I tend to personally
still hold to the theory that anyone old enough to be browsing the internet
downloading and trying games on their own should be old enough to take
warnings seriously.
As regards my comments about criminality, what I meant was I get the
impression the violence in the game is intended as rather absurdist and
indeed psychotic in nature, not a serious impression of crime or even of
genre crime fiction. I could well be incorrect sinse I've not been able to
play the game yet, but from the description that was the note I thought the
game was going for, which puts things in a slightly different light, sinse
just as I wouldn't usually condone a game like rampage as I mentioned
involving shear mindless destruction of cities, the commic violence was
actually sort of fun in the same way godzilla is in the films.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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