Technology

(almost) every game is an offline game if you pirate it ;)

If the game isn't rated AO it shouldn't have an age verification.

R rating is fucking 17+ not 18+. R rating is still for minors.

If your game needs an age rating then you shouldn't be allowed to have an R rating straight to AO for you.

Oh what's that visa won't let you sell your AO rated game?

Too fucking bad.

Maybe find a better solution then. ):<

Then they double killed it when they started introducing nonsense like flying cars with rocket launchers.

On the flip side, it's given it insane longevity and made it feel more modern. Playing singleplayer feels so annoying at times because of their arbitrary rules (which are still in online, but toned down a little) and gameplay/mission design.

At least GTAO showed everyone rockstar's true nature, and you couldn't turn away or say that it's a small alternative game mode.
So shoutout to online and 5 as a whole for showing me enough to avoid all future rockstar titles lol

maybe the goal is instead to try to get ahead of regulation by implementing a system that is easily bypassed by most kids (like these video based age estimations). Then they can show this to the regulator and be like: "look were already doing everything we can, no need to actually put the regulation in place".

Maybe that actually makes it playable. But who am I kidding?

Seriously. Our school had a presentation by a guy about kids and computer usage. The gist of it was: Roblox bad, because of paedophiles. GTA good, because it furthers role playing. Basically the opposite of the age recommendations.

more like 99%

It's M rated. M ratings are 17+ the ESRB rating for 18+ is AO.

M ratings are for minors, AO is for adults.

You need to ID to buy an AO game, you do not for M unless it's a individual store policy.

Due to anti porn sentiment and stores refusing to carry porn. Only 24 games have ever gotten the AO rating

It's considered a death flag.

It's much like how the Deadpool movie was R rated instead of pg13. This was considered a huge risk cause R rates movies don't make money was the common theory.

But even then R rating is also for minors. Movies have the NC-17 rating which is for 18+ and thus only adults. This would be the AO rating in games.

Stores and public facing businesses are so piss scared of having adult rated content even if it's not porn, just because of the vague idea that adult only content HAS to be porn cause "what else would it be"

That rating systems have undermined their very purpose and become fucking useless. It's why everything is only M rated instead of being AO when it really should be.

This falls on the parents instead because of dumb laws every one has to deal with this, I just hope that not all countries are this insane:

users in the UK have had to take photos of themselves and upload it to a service that uses AI to guess their age. Or, send in photos of ID such as passports or driving licenses.

Wrong. You "lose" the age verification feature.

Or just start fucking using the AO rating.

GTA should have a fucking AO rating but because of money no game gets more then an M rating making the entire system pointless.

Can you call it that when chat is disabled anyway ; D

Moms are still getting plenty of action though, right? Wont someone think of the moms!!!!

They have way more investors to jerk off and please now

age verification is just a BS strawman. do you remember when we where young? we would access stuff and find ways to buy stuff. but whenever there was a reasonable but fair gap, it would be much harder to get whatever we wanted: buying weed was so much easier, than buying alcohol (without the appropriate age).

pirating is easy (even i figured it out before having enough money to buy movies & games). so the kids will just pirate that stuff and get their way anyway. age verification at the store makes so much more sense. sure, there are ways to circumvent those. but it is a reasonable stop block.

Parents will just have their kids play on their accounts. This only hurts the average person who now needs to worry about who has that information and how it's secured.