age verification is just a BS strawman. do you remember when we where young? we would access stuff and find ways to buy stuff. but whenever there was a reasonable but fair gap, it would be much harder to get whatever we wanted: buying weed was so much easier, than buying alcohol (without the appropriate age).

pirating is easy (even i figured it out before having enough money to buy movies & games). so the kids will just pirate that stuff and get their way anyway. age verification at the store makes so much more sense. sure, there are ways to circumvent those. but it is a reasonable stop block.

My mum enjoyed the bonus level in the mall where you could just kill like 100 people as fast as you could.

Her favourite weapon is the flamethrower.

Her first reaction to the game was "that's disgusting", but I let her have a go and suddenly she was toasting a whole crowd and loving every minute of it.

Can you even call it GTA online if there aren't a dozen 12 year olds running around screaming, "N***** and F*****".

GTA5 was released in 2013. GTA6 is being released 13 years later. If there had been no GTAO, we would have had at least one or two more "modern" GTA releases in that window.

Seriously. Our school had a presentation by a guy about kids and computer usage. The gist of it was: Roblox bad, because of paedophiles. GTA good, because it furthers role playing. Basically the opposite of the age recommendations.

I'm already boycotting rockstar, just make offline games and stop with the invasive bs

Now my money is going to indie developers

Im bout to crash out this is absolutely the most stupidest idea ever. Anyone should be able to play this game regardless of age.

Isn't GTAV an 18 rated game? So children shouldn't be able to buy it in the first place.

If we're going to government age verification everywhere just get rid of fucking ESRB and content ratings

It's M rated. M ratings are 17+ the ESRB rating for 18+ is AO.

M ratings are for minors, AO is for adults.

You need to ID to buy an AO game, you do not for M unless it's a individual store policy.

Due to anti porn sentiment and stores refusing to carry porn. Only 24 games have ever gotten the AO rating

It's considered a death flag.

It's much like how the Deadpool movie was R rated instead of pg13. This was considered a huge risk cause R rates movies don't make money was the common theory.

But even then R rating is also for minors. Movies have the NC-17 rating which is for 18+ and thus only adults. This would be the AO rating in games.

Stores and public facing businesses are so piss scared of having adult rated content even if it's not porn, just because of the vague idea that adult only content HAS to be porn cause "what else would it be"

That rating systems have undermined their very purpose and become fucking useless. It's why everything is only M rated instead of being AO when it really should be.

Or just start fucking using the AO rating.

GTA should have a fucking AO rating but because of money no game gets more then an M rating making the entire system pointless.

When I couldnt buy digital stuff because of age restrictions (e.g. game shops) I at one point figured out that Steam doesnt do that and you could get Paysafecards to buy them this way.
No need for paypal (which needs an online banking enabled SEPA account or credit card) or a credit card.