Poll: Why do we need R18+?

[Fishyash]

Personally I don't think the 18 rating should exist, just the adult only rating. Sometimes the difference between some 15s and some 18s are rather hard to distinguish.

Simple opinion personally, sometimes you can easily tell the difference, but there are plenty of young teens playing 18 games and sometimes it makes me wonder, should it really be an 18?

 

[Gigano]

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The difference between what a 15-year-old can handle and what an 18-year-old can is, well, nothing at all. Most people have started drinking by then, started doing sexual shit (even if it's not actual sex), seen porn, seen violence in film, and of course had access to the internet. The difference is that you can do all that legally by the time you're 18. The mentality is the same.

I'd be quite happy to set a 15 as the highest rating, but using it in the same way that an 18 is the highest rating over here. I.e. A 15+ treats adults and young adults like their age group, not infants, which is what the Australian system does.

No doubt most 15 year olds can handle God of War and other such games, but I doubt all their legal guardians - only lost at age 18 - can handle them playing it. Since it's a system largely for their benefit (I never once looked at age ratings), I say give them the info as accurately as possible, by leaving stuff like explicit sexual content or extremely graphic ultra-violence in a category of its own.

Of course, far less explicit content than that is currently rated 18+, so I wouldn't at all be opposed to liberalize what the 15+ rating should be able to cover. There should still be a separate category for the most explicit or disturbing things and themes though, those so controversial that perhaps a large group of people - including quite a few adults - generally can't or won't handle them though.

 

[Shilkanni]

Yeah I think you missed the big reasons:
* We don't think violent or adult themed games in ranged between MA to R should be banned in our country.
* We don't want game makers 'holding back' and not being able to make the game they want because they can't risk their game being banned. Australia does not change the whole world but I don't want my country to be part of the problem.

 

[crudus]

Clearly the MA18 sells. If it didn't sell game designers wouldn't keep making it. People apparently like the R18+ so it has its niche. Also it seems your whole argument is based on "I don't like it so it shouldn't exist". If you don't like a media then ignore it go enjoy something else.

And please don't say 'because everyone else has one', it is not a logical reason.

"Why do we need an army?"
"Because everyone else has one!"
"That is a stupid and illogical reason."
(proof by contradiction)

If everyone else has a R18+ then it is clearly selling and making money. So get it so you can make money too!