Comments on: GameStop VP Gives Hope For AO Sales

By: jordan

jordan — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:54:28 +0000

By: SpiralGray

SpiralGray — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:44:18 +0000

The concept of personal accountability hasn’t been lost recently. It’s been lost for at least a decade now.

There are a couple of issues here. I agree that parents should raise their own children instead of expecting the rest of us to do it for them. But the cry of “it’s for the chillun” is a smoke screen. The real issue is that too many people feel that if something offends them, it shouldn’t be available to anyone, which is really the idea of enforcing one person’s belief system on another. Kind of like telling a foreign country that they are going to be a democratic society whether they like it or not. Gee, when it happens on that scale, is it a wonder that it shows up on these much smaller scale issues?

As for the title of the article, I don’t think he’s giving hope at all. His statement of “I can’t say that we would have supported it at AO, and I can’t say that we won’t.” is designed to appease both sides of the fence without making a commitment to either.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:33:46 +0000

I agree with William. In this day everyone is looking for something else to blame. If you get bad grades you have a learning disorder, if you’re overweight you have a weight disorder. If your kids are watching movies, visiting websites or playing video games they shouldn’t, well then it’s not that you’re a bad parent, it’s the government or the industry that’s at fault!

Parents, take control of your children and your households and stop blaming others for your poor parenting.

By: William

William — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:58:33 +0000

people seem to forget that we are supposed to live in a free society…or at least working towards the concept of freedom. We do not need the government over-regulating us. It starts with video games and goes to much scarier places. I say simply rate the game and check IDs. At that point it becomes the parent’s responsibility.

The concept of personal accountability has really been lost in this world recently. There’s always something other than an individual to blame it seems.