Welcome to my blog! I'm Martin. I live in the city of the . My first game was for . After that it was to the , for some , some , and some , and so on. I got a (my first game there was the HORRENDOUS adaptation of which was a really crappy knockoff), then a , , , , and . My boring Twitter page lives here.
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Ever tried to watch a video of an M-rated game? You've all seen the familiar message, "Please enter your age" or something like that. So now I'm 17 years old, and I can purchase M-rated games, assuming the ESRB hasn't upended its ratings system. But this causes a funny problem with most age gates, seeing as I'm not 18. Why? The existence of the AO rating. AO games are 18+, as I'm sure you're aware. There have been twenty-five games in the fifteen year history of the ESRB that have received this rating. So I go to the God of War 3 site. Or to watch a video on GameTrailers. (these are the two things that come first to mind, although there are plenty of other examples) And before, I've been just scrolling down to 1900 and hitting "enter", and that works fine. But now that I can purchase these games by myself, I decided, just for fun, to see if my real age works. And so I put in my age. What do I get? This message. So...what am I supposed to do? Putting my year of birth in as 1992 instead of 1993 doesn't deliver this message. But the game is rated M, not AO. I can purchase this game, but I cannot watch videos of the game? How does this make sense? Why does this occur? I realize most people don't bother to put in their actual year of birth, but I'm trying to figure out why age gates are set to 18 and not 17 for games that can be purchased by people who are 17. I'll leave it to the comments, half of which I expect to be either "So what?" or "Waaaaah" or "Wait until you're 18" but, still, I want to know what somebody else thinks about this.
Oh, and the God of War I and II websites? The age gate is set to 17.
It's a strange thing, but about as impeding as a wet napkin. I'm old enough to not have to lie about it anymore, so for me it is more of an annoyance than a maturity dilemma.
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. My first game was 
for 
. After that it was to the 
, for some 
, some 
, and some 
, 
and so on. I got a 
(my first game there was the HORRENDOUS adaptation of 
which was a really crappy 
knockoff), then a 
, 
, 
, 
, and 
. My boring Twitter page lives 
So now I'm 17 years old, and I can purchase M-rated games, assuming the ESRB hasn't upended its ratings system. But this causes a funny problem with most age gates, seeing as I'm not 18. Why? The existence of the AO rating. AO games are 18+, as I'm sure you're aware. There have been twenty-five games in the fifteen year history of the ESRB that have received this rating. So I go to the God of War 3 site. Or to watch a video on GameTrailers. (these are the two things that come first to mind, although there are plenty of other examples) And before, I've been just scrolling down to 1900 and hitting "enter", and that works fine. But now that I can purchase these games by myself, I decided, just for fun, to see if my real age works. And so I put in my age. What do I get? This message. 
