Smartypants

I remember these guys!

Battle Realms had AI that made me throw the game away in disgust. And the amazingly short game called Dragonshard (did they run out of time or were they trying to bleed out a few addons that never came?). And the awfully boring WAr of the Ring, and I never played the housewives game but I can only imagine that one.

Thats a score of 0 out of 4 for me. THe tron deer is really cool looking but the other pictures all look like generic yellow and brown paste (no one uses color but Nintendo anymre?) which is pretty much standard for their games anyway I guess. Yellow and Brown Paste of the Argonauts isnt on my buy list

Sabre,

You are out of your mind.

When this goes all the way to a Federal Court it applies to everyone.

I think it's YOU that fails to see what the ESRB really does, unfortunately. They fall under COGs (cost of goods) and developers end up paying for it (loss of royalties typically), as well as the public. Games are going into the $60+ range because the cost of making them and the costs of things like ESRB and GameSpy drive those COGs up, making us, the consumers, fork out our hard earned cash.

This applies to everyone that buys video games, and your harsh closeminded comments don't stop that fact. Belittling people and telling them to stop complaining when they perceive unjust treatment and give their opinions is extremely inappropriate on your part. Think BEFORE you speak, please.

The ESRB is now and has always been a money making scam. I never had a doubt in my mind that the industry would come to this once we let an organization blackmail developers and publishers like the ESRB has.

At one time there were a few groups rating video games, but ESRB brown-nosed and lobbied the biggest retailers like Wal-Mart to not sell any game not rated by their organization. People were more than willing to self-rate their games, knowing FULL WELL that any lying about their self ratings could result in lawsuits.

But ESRB's lobbying gave them essentially carte blanche to begin inflating their pricing structures and bullying developers and publishers to pay up or lose sales. See, that's called EXTORTION in some circles...

So the ESRB Mafia is taking yet ANOTHER step to fill their coffers. Don't think for a minute that this has anything to do with anything else like "justice" or any other spin word you are hearing about. It's MONEY they are concerned with. If the government had an agency that regulated game ratings, the cost would be substantially less to developers, publishers and CUSTOMERS, who really pay for all of their extortion in the long run.

The ESRB, as incompetent as they are, is just spinning their lousy regulations that they extort from the video games industry into yet another method of gaining press time and money. You should see the jackasses they have running their rating system... most of the time you have to send in a 30 minute video of your game with "all of the issues that they need to be aware of" and they rate your game entirely on that video. It's unbelievable what we deal with from these ignorant and arrogant monkeys. The ESRB is even worse than GameSpy in their idiocy.