Child would like unsuitable game for christmas HELP!

shellsuit

suited-aces wrote: »

Cos they say so!

So lock up every parent who has let their child play a game with an older rating that the child and every parent who has let their child watch a film with an older rating too.

Is it actually illegal, or is it just a guide?

kegg_2

I have bought the game for my 13 year old for christmas and he has already played it around other friends houses. He already has the previous COD games.

He isn't a gaming addict and maybe plays either the xbox or ps3 for a couple of hours a week max.
He has no interest in real guns and doesn't have a aggressive bone in his body and the only time he has ever been in a fight is when someone called his brother a retard.

I honestly dont think it is as bad as some would like to make out and i dont think it is going to turn my son into some sort of gun toting killer.

suited-aces

Dunno shellsuit tbh

jamespir

shellsuit wrote: »

So lock up every parent who has let their child play a game with an older rating that the child and every parent who has let their child watch a film with an older rating too.

Is it actually illegal, or is it just a guide?

you can be prosecuted in the same way as buying alcohol for minors if your caught or someone reports you if they felt you were intending to give to a child

shellsuit

jamespir wrote: »

you can be prosecuted in the same way as buying alcohol for minors if your caught or someone reports you if they felt you were intending to give to a child

I didn't say I bought the game, I said if I allowed my child to play the game, so lets say he borrowed it from a friend or family member.

jamespir

shellsuit wrote: »

I didn't say I bought the game, I said if I allowed my child to play the game, so lets say he borrowed it from a friend or family member.

technically yes its illegal but they have to proof that the game/dvd was intentially given to a minor to play

plus its illegal to lend games (due to copywright laws ) unless you have a licence like blockbuster

kegg_2

jamespir wrote: »

you can be prosecuted in the same way as buying alcohol for minors if your caught or someone reports you if they felt you were intending to give to a child

wrong the law only relates to the sale of the games see the video recording act 1984 which itself was non enforcable until the video recording act 2010 came in this year due to a tecnicality when the act was originally passed.

shellsuit

jamespir wrote: »

technically yes its illegal but they have to proof that the game/dvd was intentially given to a minor to play

plus its illegal to lend games (due to copywright laws ) unless you have a licence like blockbuster

It's not illegal to lend someone a game !!!!!! :rotfl:

Have you got a link for all this info anyway?

Wouldn't want to be carted off in a meat wagon on Christmas Eve would I?

courteener

At our school if we weren't doing the Citizenship GCSE we did a survey and discussion project about this.

Hardly anybody under 14 was playing 18 rated games. In Year 11 it was 34% of the boys and 7% of the girls who answered that they "played 18 rated games regularly"

At my school it wasn't really normal to play 18 games under the age of 15. We'd feel sorry for a Year 3 who was playing them.

cheepskate_2

I find it amazing that all these people are shouting about the law and how its 18, so classed that way for a reason.

Here we go:

*At 17 you can LEGALLY have a firearms certificate and buy/own firearms and ammo, so the goverment is LEGALLY allowing you to own the tools of killing, but wont allow you to watch /play an animation.

*At 16 you can LEGALLY be trained to , slaughter men or be slaughtered , in the name of war(until recently Gulf/Kosovo wars, under 18's were sent into war. Even now despite the current policy of keeping those under 18 out of hostilities, the MoD spokesman admitted it was not always possible), but again you are not allowed to play a war game that is less violent than what you have actually experienced.

*At 16 you can LEGALLY marry and carry out all those sex scenes, that you always wanted to do, but are still not allowed LEGALLY to watch

At 12 you are LEGALLY allowed to buy a pet, as they believe obviously you are mature enough to care for this animal, but not to play an animation

*At ANY AGE you are LEGALLY allowed to become a parent

AT ANY age you are LEGALLY allowed to own a shotgun licence.

As for the marked ones, as parents you would have no say in the matter, but of course you could still enforce the game rule, just to make you feel better.


Says it all really