EA's Jeff Green chimes in on California game law Supreme Court case

@Deschain
Not to mention the Governator has been in several violent movies himself. That makes it all the worse. He's allowed to kill people and curse, but video games aren't.

I swear, all politicians are full of it.

@Themoreyouknow The irony is I can think of numerous videogames in which his likeness is killing people. It's not just movies!

@Themoreyouknow

I think another issue to consider is that if a parent lets their child play a violent video game, and that does result in the child becoming a murderous psycho kid who ends up killing YOUR child, what happens then? Do you file criminal charges against the parent? I don't think that would be fair.

@GuardianLegend
If a kid is driven to kill, it's not solely because of a videogame, and that child has pretty deeply seeded psychological problems, which may or may not have been caused by the parent, though either abuse or negligence. Even if the child's mental problems were wholly spontaneous, the guardians are ultimately responsible for the actions of their ward, and are expected to restrict, medicate or recuperate a child with mental deficiencies.

So yes, even if a child kills, it's still the parents' fault for either driving him to kill or not preventing him from doing so.

@BananaBoat I actually have faith in the supreme court. Unlike most poloticians, the supreme court takes the first amendment to a very literal extent.

@GuardianLegend While looking that up, I saw this from my state (Texas):

http://law.onecle.com/texas/penal/43.24.00.html

A person commits an offense if, knowing that the
material is harmful:
(1) and knowing the person is a minor, he sells,
distributes, exhibits, or possesses for sale, distribution, or
exhibition to a minor harmful material;
(2) he displays harmful material and is reckless about
whether a minor is present who will be offended or alarmed by the
display; or

"harmful content" is content that:
appeals to the prurient interest of a minor, in sex, nudity, or excretion
is patently offensive to prevailing
standards in the adult community as a whole with respect to what is suitable for minors
is utterly without redeeming social value for minors


So in Texas apparently a pornographic game could also be legally regulated, as well as any game that is deemed to be too "harmful" to a minor. (I imagine the unedited/unrated version of a game like Manhunt 2 would fit that bill).

It sounds like Texas already has somewhat similar regulations to the one California is trying to impose, only to a lesser extent (where it's mostly for porn/things so bad not even an adult might find it tasteful), instead of just to any "mature" content.

@Chief Oddball Same Jeff, been following him since CGW. He went to 1up/GFW magazine, after that went under he landed at EA. Love the guy, excellent writer and entertainer.