You can't argue against PEGI on this basis when the BBFC slaps a huge red 18 on the front of the box for such games that warrant it. It's the equivalent the Big Red Shiny Button simply labelled 'Do Not Push' to a kid.

 

Also,

"because video games with objectionable content can have harmful effects on children and adolescents."

Proof please.

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I LIKE the fence. I get 2 groups to laugh at then.

Perhaps it is the major errors these people still continue to say "These games are detrimental to young people" accturely make kids want to play those games more to prove them wrong.

Once again, I am not surprized that a few researchers who NEVER PLAYED VIDEOGAMES continue on that ignorant myth about Violent Videogames. And yet again they get their facts wrong.

It is NOT the 'forbidden fruit' theory...

It is the "Stop telling us what games we should not play, because you are only making us want to play them more" theory where kids want to test their limits.

 

I don't know why people keep on getting fussed over comments like "violent games are unsuitable for all ages" and ignore what is actually being said. The real issue here is the actual rating.

It's well known that every time a game gets banned (or talk of being banned) more people want it. It doesn't matter who puts the ratings on the games, most kids want the games that they are not allowed.

...the more objectionable the content, the more kids clamored for the controller—"forbidden fruit," the researchers called the games...

They missed a GOLDEN opportunity here. I figured they had put actual ratings labels on the games. This may point to a "forbidden fruit" theory. But they didn't, they merely described the content.

What does this prove? Only that children like gore, violence, and profanity. Duh!

We're not dimissing the study; it's the solution that's the problem. Yes, it makes perfect sense that objectionable content is more enticing. But they're also saying that PEGI shouldn't do a +18 rating. It needs to be left to the BBFC. Ridiculous.

*sigh* And I want to go to U of M...I'm just waiting for my acceptance letter (or letter saying no). Every big stupid and sensationilist study always has some idiot from U of M. If those are the types of people that get let into there...maybe it's not such a great school after all.

-If an apple a day keeps the doctor away....what happens when a doctor eats an apple?-

To this I say: "OF COURSE!"

I mean to Captain Obvious and the Legions of Gullible of that particular study...when you had games like Mortal Kombat that had a hidden blood code, and Lethal Enforcers way way back in the day. I wasn't even 18 at the time, I snuck out and managed to snag rental time on them (back then my dad was quite oblivious how games were rated and what was/was not violent) Those games...even then were..."..ehh...just okay" but it was the idea I was playing something I shouldn't! Slaughterhouse and Phantasmagoria, all more examples of forbidden fruit, I had to taste. Now that I am 25, there isn't that much excitement when playing those games. In fact most of them are pretty terrible...o.o

Eh back to point...of course slapping R or 18+ ratings will make certain kids covet these little items. Human nature to want what we can't have :)

You see this all the time. Like what other people have said; it’s the same with R rated movies and music labels. It's also similar to alcohol and cigarettes; when young people get access to it they consume more because 1. It’s illegal and 2. It allows them to act more mature than they really are and thus glorifying themselves. The whole idea that something is ‘off limits’ makes it much more tempting and that’s just really psychology.

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They actually had to conduct a study for this?

How do I get the job of accepting money for restating common knowledge/sense?

As if this is news to anyone. WTF? 

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