Here is a letter, that wont be read, I sent to the company -
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I play Scarlet Blade. I like it b/c it is a sort of tongue in cheek silly fun game that happens to be a bit pervy but because it is meant for adults that's fine. HOWEVER, the problem is the mass number of young kids who are playing. Whether it is level 16 whipper looks like she is wearing a strip of duct tape as underwear (or maybe bush, im still not sure on that) or the 'puzzles' where a in three wishes u have three women on a man who is squeezing the girls breast - I am sure this should not be played by kids. AND your lame birthday check in does not stop anyone.
Think I am exaggerating! See the yellow line in my screen grab. 11 yr olds are playing! I am an adult, one who has spent money, I liked the idea of a kid free zone.
... If none of that bothers you (and u are cool with the whole pedo/legal thing, ewww), then consider that you are losing customers.
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Yes some parents are bad, but as a gamer community, shouldn't we care as well? I like the idea of an adult game - but if companies are not going to take the underage thing seriously, then dont release them. Scarlet blade is no longer fun for me, it is just sad and the company, well they are rather sad as well.
Well it is a cultural thing. The top people at Aeria Games are Asian and they view nudity different then we do. i.e Anime most anime will have some form of nudity in it now a days. Use not be that way. Usually it is over bountiful bouncy breast.
I do agree that this game is very close to soft porn and in all honesty it is not a game for me. I can only imagine that the FBI could prob find a few pervs in this game if they wanted. Or maybe they can send in Anderson Cooper.
bull. there is a difference between anime and hentai. and most animes have little to non nudity. sure, there are some, but even the western market has nude comics, that doesn't mean asterix or lucky like are porn comics tho ^^
the asians don't let their kids watch porn either.... as much as our parents let us watch it. anyway, kids (or in this case, teens) are abit like water, they will find a way.
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Originally posted by birdycephon I dont know what people are complaining about, God of War games are 10 times more worse than this.
is that so.
Now what does some 8 year old learn from god of war ?
You think he goes and shoot someone with machine gun ?
But imagine that 8 year old doing sex ,he dont need those tanks and explosives for that.
theres tiny minis playing war games with wooden guns all over the world ,would you give them wooden dildo and tell them : play with this with your friends,you can be the punisher.
Dude! Why are you going on about wooden dildos?! You just jumped to the next level. There are no dildos in SB. not even in the cash shop.
That made me laugh to be honest. What would they call the item they'd sell? The Sex Splinter?
You guys are hilariour. There is no sex in Scarlet Blade. There's a ton of inuendo, but nothing a child would even grasp. If you even played the game you'd know that. An 8 year old wouldnt even get turned on by boobs, and the only way he would even know there is something wrong with seeing a pair, is if his parents taught him that it's wrong. There is never anything wrong with seeing a pair of boobs.
Originally posted by birdycephon I dont know what people are complaining about, God of War games are 10 times more worse than this.
is that so.
Now what does some 8 year old learn from god of war ?
You think he goes and shoot someone with machine gun ?
But imagine that 8 year old doing sex ,he dont need those tanks and explosives for that.
theres tiny minis playing war games with wooden guns all over the world ,would you give them wooden dildo and tell them : play with this with your friends,you can be the punisher.
Dude! Why are you going on about wooden dildos?! You just jumped to the next level. There are no dildos in SB. not even in the cash shop.
That made me laugh to be honest. What would they call the item they'd sell? The Sex Splinter?
You guys are hilariour. There is no sex in Scarlet Blade. There's a ton of inuendo, but nothing a child would even grasp. If you even played the game you'd know that. An 8 year old wouldnt even get turned on by boobs, and the only way he would even know there is something wrong with seeing a pair, is if his parents taught him that it's wrong. There is never anything wrong with seeing a pair of boobs.
Now,when my son comes home and asks me to play some god of war with him in real life without computers or internets,i can do it,i can do boxing with him and whatever horrors there is in that game,and i will lose of course.
but
When your son comes home,and ask you to play some Scarlet Blade with him in real life,you can be the punisher blonde and show how blondes do it or maybe he wants to be that.
What do you do a)yes
b) no
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Originally posted by birdycephon I dont know what people are complaining about, God of War games are 10 times more worse than this.
is that so.
Now what does some 8 year old learn from god of war ?
You think he goes and shoot someone with machine gun ?
But imagine that 8 year old doing sex ,he dont need those tanks and explosives for that.
theres tiny minis playing war games with wooden guns all over the world ,would you give them wooden dildo and tell them : play with this with your friends,you can be the punisher.
Dude! Why are you going on about wooden dildos?! You just jumped to the next level. There are no dildos in SB. not even in the cash shop.
That made me laugh to be honest. What would they call the item they'd sell? The Sex Splinter?
You guys are hilariour. There is no sex in Scarlet Blade. There's a ton of inuendo, but nothing a child would even grasp. If you even played the game you'd know that. An 8 year old wouldnt even get turned on by boobs, and the only way he would even know there is something wrong with seeing a pair, is if his parents taught him that it's wrong. There is never anything wrong with seeing a pair of boobs.
Now,when my son comes home and asks me to play some god of war with him in real life without computers or internets,i can do it,i can do boxing with him and whatever horrors there is in that game,and i will lose of course.
but
When your son comes home,and ask you to play some Scarlet Blade with him in real life,you can be the punisher blonde and show how blondes do it or maybe he wants to be that.
What do you do a)yes
b) no
My son wouldn't be playing either of those. Not because there is nudity. I couldnt care less about digital boobs. I do however abhor violence.
Originally posted by MarXon No, it's all the parents responsibility. I don't care if children play the pervy game too, they are not my responsibility. And I don't plan to go around hitting on people in games so the age of the people around me doesn't bother me one bit. Children have easier access to hardcore pornography on the internet than the softcore stuff in this game, so whether the parents let their children play the game, or simply doesn't know about it, I don't care.
Sadly, 85% of the population of the world don't see it this way. Instead of actually taking responsiblity for their child's actions they want to whine and complain.
Game companies or players should not be baby-sitters. It is the responsibility of the parent to know what type of activity their child is engaged in while online, and to set limits to the type of activity or interaction that they deem appropriate for their child.
There are several warnings listed on Scarlet Blade of the content in the game. Both on website, both in-game, and both on launcher.
The warnings are as followed and are listed visibly both on website and in-game:
M+17
Violence
Blood
Sexual Themes
Nudity
Drug Reference
Strong Language
It is not an excuse to say "I did not know this game had that!" when it is clearly listed the content that is available in this game. If another parent deems it appropriate for their child to play this game under their own roofs then that is their decision and their own rules. If a parent hasn't had the discussion of the themes of this game to their child, that is their problem. Some parents are more puritian than others. Some children will ignore parents and do what they please. Again, it is responsibility of the full-grown adult to know what is going on in their child's activity while online.
If a father has his favorite " Playboy Magazine" hidden away under his bed and his kid found it, guess what's responsibility it is? The fathers. Not the person on the street. Not the neighbor down two blocks. Not the manufactoring company of the magazine. The father is the one who put it there and he is also the one who failed to safe-guard the product from prying hands. Under the responsibility of his house, and his home the fault of the magazine is upon him.
Legally Scarlet Blade cannot be "soft pornography" and be sold to minors. If scarlet blade was "soft pornography" it would have real women in it like a play-boy magazine. Since Scarlet Blade involves no actual evidence of any real persons whatsoever, it is not "soft pornography". Mislabeled yes, but is actually called and considered 'Erotica'.
If the discussion of sexuality is deemed too much by a parent and or for a 17 year old to be playing a themed game like Scarlet, then it is the parent's responsibility to make sure their kid has no access to that game.
That can already be done by several ways through Parental Controls, talk-to-talk descisions and setting out the ground-rules of what goes and what not goes as long as they live under their roof.
Originally posted by birdycephon I dont know what people are complaining about, God of War games are 10 times more worse than this.
is that so.
Now what does some 8 year old learn from god of war ?
You think he goes and shoot someone with machine gun ?
But imagine that 8 year old doing sex ,he dont need those tanks and explosives for that.
theres tiny minis playing war games with wooden guns all over the world ,would you give them wooden dildo and tell them : play with this with your friends,you can be the punisher.
Dude! Why are you going on about wooden dildos?! You just jumped to the next level. There are no dildos in SB. not even in the cash shop.
That made me laugh to be honest. What would they call the item they'd sell? The Sex Splinter?
You guys are hilariour. There is no sex in Scarlet Blade. There's a ton of inuendo, but nothing a child would even grasp. If you even played the game you'd know that. An 8 year old wouldnt even get turned on by boobs, and the only way he would even know there is something wrong with seeing a pair, is if his parents taught him that it's wrong. There is never anything wrong with seeing a pair of boobs.
Some parents are more puritain than others. Then they wonder why their children grow up and get involved in different things(Drugs, Sex, etc) like haywires. Perhaps it is because of the obvious lack of sex-education(which ironically, is taught more in schools than what the average parent will discuss with their own kid) as well as the puritiasim roots of the holier-than-thou 1950's baby-boomer generation logic. Where shunning is viewed as an effective way of avoiding parental responsibility of explaning the naturality of the human condition and reproductivity instead of just being honest and discussion stuff with their child that they will come across sooner or later depending on their age.
Ironically, the rates of teen-prengancy and pre-teen prengancy have not gone down but have been on the rise. And your probably right, an 8 year old would not have the same reaction as someone older would. More than likely they might look towards their parents with a confused look. I know I would have. Yet it's ironic the mother can exposed her breast to her child as a wee-baby during feeding and nothing thought of it.
Why not worry about your kids, and let me worry about mine. That's the issue these days, people nosing around where it's none of their business. If their parents are not bothered by it, why would you even care?
My little brother of 12 plays call of duty, and has probably seen more porn than i have. He makes wonderful grades in school, has plenty of friends, doesn't do drugs, and has a vocabularly that shocks me everyday with the depth he seems to have a grasp on it.
As such, he is allowed to do what he pleases. He's tried both ciggarrettes and alcohol in his life, was quite discusted by them and now know's he doesn't want to do that ever when he gets to the age where society deems he should be able to. He doesn't hide anything from our parents or myself, and is not afraid to ask about something he doesn't know anything about.
He has two guns, a rifle and a handgun, has been certified and knows the dangers of them
I was raised the same, and am a successful father who doesn't cheat, have my own clear cut ideas on what i want out of life, have been married almost 7 years this year, straight out of highschool with a woman i love, who treats me right and respects the man I am.
Stop sheltering your fucking kids, idiots. They are going to be exposed to all these things that offend you so very much at one point or another. Keep telling them no, it'll only make them want it more.
He's 12 and has both has been allowed to drink and smoke? Your parents are morons and they are the biggest cause of why kids do what they do. He also has guns at his age? Your parents should be slapped hard! They are a disgrace to parenting and if anything happens to that boy, it's their own pathetic doing.
As far as you, you're just as bad as your parents are. Who cares if you are with someone for however many years and yadda, yadda, yadda. You'll do the same exact thing with your kids and you're not any better than your own parents are.
You spoke of people worrying about other parents kids, etc, etc, etc; take your own advice and don't worry wether or not people feel like "sheltering" their children from people like you and your parents. Heck, I honestly despise people like you and your parents. So good job on achieving that. (I know, tempt ban for flaming. Well worth it).
But they should do some kind of an age check or verification like Second Life or Age of Conan have. Easy to get around I suppose, but better than nothing at all?
As to Scarlet Blade, the loud crying over it made me have to look it over, probably will put my thoughts in a new post sometime.
Stop sheltering your fucking kids, idiots. They are going to be exposed to all these things that offend you so very much at one point or another. Keep telling them no, it'll only make them want it more.
So you are suggesting I buy beer, cigarettes, a gun and a prostitute for my 12 year old and expose him to these things so he can make up his own mind?
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Why not worry about your kids, and let me worry about mine. That's the issue these days, people nosing around where it's none of their business. If their parents are not bothered by it, why would you even care?
My little brother of 12 plays call of duty, and has probably seen more porn than i have. He makes wonderful grades in school, has plenty of friends, doesn't do drugs, and has a vocabularly that shocks me everyday with the depth he seems to have a grasp on it.
As such, he is allowed to do what he pleases. He's tried both ciggarrettes and alcohol in his life, was quite discusted by them and now know's he doesn't want to do that ever when he gets to the age where society deems he should be able to. He doesn't hide anything from our parents or myself, and is not afraid to ask about something he doesn't know anything about.
He has two guns, a rifle and a handgun, has been certified and knows the dangers of them
I was raised the same, and am a successful father who doesn't cheat, have my own clear cut ideas on what i want out of life, have been married almost 7 years this year, straight out of highschool with a woman i love, who treats me right and respects the man I am.
Stop sheltering your fucking kids, idiots. They are going to be exposed to all these things that offend you so very much at one point or another. Keep telling them no, it'll only make them want it more.
He's 12 and has both has been allowed to drink and smoke? Your parents are morons and they are the biggest cause of why kids do what they do. He also has guns at his age? Your parents should be slapped hard! They are a disgrace to parenting and if anything happens to that boy, it's their own pathetic doing.
As far as you, you're just as bad as your parents are. Who cares if you are with someone for however many years and yadda, yadda, yadda. You'll do the same exact thing with your kids and you're not any better than your own parents are.
You spoke of people worrying about other parents kids, etc, etc, etc; take your own advice and don't worry wether or not people feel like "sheltering" their children from people like you and your parents. Heck, I honestly despise people like you and your parents. So good job on achieving that. (I know, tempt ban for flaming. Well worth it).
Pretending a problem doesn't exist is not the same as dealing with it. Education is the solution not censorship. There is absolutely nothing wrong with giving a 12 year old guns as long has he or she is taught to respect them, taught proper gun safety, and has shown maturity enough with regard to them, and is properly supervised. There is nothing wrong with education children as to alcohol, cigarettes, and sex. If you refuse to talk about it then of course they are going to want to know more about these things and they will learn it on their own from less reputable sources than their parents.
I grew up on an Orchard in rural America and had guns myself at the age of 12, 20 years ago. It's people who don't understand things who end up abusing them. I would suggest you get a clue rather than simply despising an effective way to raise children. Fearmongering and censorship is a hell of a lot more dangerous for our youth than responsible educational methods. There is a reason the youth of today are so screwed up, it is all the moralizing and fearmongering that has been done in recent generations.
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Why not worry about your kids, and let me worry about mine. That's the issue these days, people nosing around where it's none of their business. If their parents are not bothered by it, why would you even care?
My little brother of 12 plays call of duty, and has probably seen more porn than i have. He makes wonderful grades in school, has plenty of friends, doesn't do drugs, and has a vocabularly that shocks me everyday with the depth he seems to have a grasp on it.
As such, he is allowed to do what he pleases. He's tried both ciggarrettes and alcohol in his life, was quite discusted by them and now know's he doesn't want to do that ever when he gets to the age where society deems he should be able to. He doesn't hide anything from our parents or myself, and is not afraid to ask about something he doesn't know anything about.
He has two guns, a rifle and a handgun, has been certified and knows the dangers of them
I was raised the same, and am a successful father who doesn't cheat, have my own clear cut ideas on what i want out of life, have been married almost 7 years this year, straight out of highschool with a woman i love, who treats me right and respects the man I am.
Stop sheltering your fucking kids, idiots. They are going to be exposed to all these things that offend you so very much at one point or another. Keep telling them no, it'll only make them want it more.
He's 12 and has both has been allowed to drink and smoke? Your parents are morons and they are the biggest cause of why kids do what they do. He also has guns at his age? Your parents should be slapped hard! They are a disgrace to parenting and if anything happens to that boy, it's their own pathetic doing.
As far as you, you're just as bad as your parents are. Who cares if you are with someone for however many years and yadda, yadda, yadda. You'll do the same exact thing with your kids and you're not any better than your own parents are.
You spoke of people worrying about other parents kids, etc, etc, etc; take your own advice and don't worry wether or not people feel like "sheltering" their children from people like you and your parents. Heck, I honestly despise people like you and your parents. So good job on achieving that. (I know, tempt ban for flaming. Well worth it).
Personally, I went through hunter's safety when I was 12 years old and my father bought me a 20 gauge shotgun and a 30.06 rifle when I completed it. I used those to go hunting with him. My niece was 10 when my brother-in-law took her out on adult supervised youth hunts and she has shot a deer every year she has gone now, nice bucks actually. She is now 14 and can say that she has guns since he gifted them to her.
I also had sips of beer when I was around that age and snuck a cigarette from my mother. I didn't like either one and didn't partake in them again until I went to college. Thank you dorm life!
You seem to have in image in your head of a drunk 12 year old with a cig hanging out of his mouth wildly firing guns into the air. Way to overreact.
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Scarlet Blade has warnings on it regarding it's content just like everything else. It's not up to the company to police who uses it after that other than the standard question "Are you 18 years or older?". If you have a problem with that, take it up with the government - it's their laws that are being followed.
Originally posted by zymurgeist The game itself is inappropriate for it's target audience, which is not adults. ESRB ratings are guidelines not laws so stop using that lame excuse. Only the worst sorts of heilcopter parents are able to monitor everything their children are doing at all times. The problem isn't the near nudity. The problem is the way it's being presented. The portrayal of women as over sexualized objects to young people with an as yet underdeveloped understanding of consequences is irresponsible.
Actually it "IS" up to the parents to be aware because you have to be a adult to even buy this game. Only a complete idiot of a parent would buy this game without seeing it has a rating of M for Mature then whine and complain that they didn't know or just complain their child is playing it. If parents can't actually take responsiblity for their children when it comes to something as simple as buying the right vidro games for their children they shouldn't have them in the 1st place!!
Stop sheltering your fucking kids, idiots. They are going to be exposed to all these things that offend you so very much at one point or another. Keep telling them no, it'll only make them want it more.
So you are suggesting I buy beer, cigarettes, a gun and a prostitute for my 12 year old and expose him to these things so he can make up his own mind?
See that's the differnce between a good parent and some clown on the internet that thinks he knows everything. If you've ever spent any time trying to teach your kids anything you know no matter how well you explain something they are sometimes just too young to grasp it. It has nothing to do with exposing them so they can learn.
I remember trying to explain to my 3 year old where we were on a globe and he got quite upset because we lived on our street not on this funny ball I was holding. At the time he was just too young to understand. You never really know when they're old enough to get it until it happens but you should be there for the bigger moments to make sure they're getting the right message. Just dropping a young kid down in a game like this...isn't the right way.
Stop sheltering your fucking kids, idiots. They are going to be exposed to all these things that offend you so very much at one point or another. Keep telling them no, it'll only make them want it more.
So you are suggesting I buy beer, cigarettes, a gun and a prostitute for my 12 year old and expose him to these things so he can make up his own mind?
he'd love you for it.
Just lock him in a room with the internetz, so World of Warcraft, internet friends, and adult websites can teach him instead. I'm sure that works out well...
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Yeah I dont get the whole practically naked anime stuff anyway......Looks like htey are trying to portray naked children and try and get away with it by making it with cartoon graphics.
Originally posted by Theocritus Yeah I dont get the whole practically naked anime stuff anyway......Looks like htey are trying to portray naked children and try and get away with it by making it with cartoon graphics.
Na. Anime children always have the tell tale big head thing going on. The elin in Tera would be a better candidate and they are just foxes (tails, ears...forest/fox spirits have more traction in the East)
There is NO miracle patch.
95% of what you see in beta won't change by launch.
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Why not worry about your kids, and let me worry about mine. That's the issue these days, people nosing around where it's none of their business. If their parents are not bothered by it, why would you even care?
Issue these days? You do realized that in society worrying about how people raise their kids has been the norm since well recorded history. Hell we even know that the Vikings would get into a parents business between their children. It is such a common thing in human culture through out, that it would be almost less human to not worry about how another parent is raising their children.
Originally posted by zymurgeist The game itself is inappropriate for it's target audience, which is not adults. ESRB ratings are guidelines not laws so stop using that lame excuse. Only the worst sorts of heilcopter parents are able to monitor everything their children are doing at all times. The problem isn't the near nudity. The problem is the way it's being presented. The portrayal of women as over sexualized objects to young people with an as yet underdeveloped understanding of consequences is irresponsible.
Actually it "IS" up to the parents to be aware because you have to be a adult to even buy this game. Only a complete idiot of a parent would buy this game without seeing it has a rating of M for Mature then whine and complain that they didn't know or just complain their child is playing it. If parents can't actually take responsiblity for their children when it comes to something as simple as buying the right vidro games for their children they shouldn't have them in the 1st place!!
You believe a preteen can't buy this game themself? It's F2P. Can you really be that gullible?
Unless its the child is paying for the mortage and electricity it goes back onto the parent to password protect the amount of time they have access to the internet and which sites they have access to.
Originally posted by zymurgeist Originally posted by ksternal Originally posted by zymurgeist The game itself is inappropriate for it's target audience, which is not adults. ESRB ratings are guidelines not laws so stop using that lame excuse. Only the worst sorts of heilcopter parents are able to monitor everything their children are doing at all times. The problem isn't the near nudity. The problem is the way it's being presented. The portrayal of women as over sexualized objects to young people with an as yet underdeveloped understanding of consequences is irresponsible.
Actually it "IS" up to the parents to be aware because you have to be a adult to even buy this game. Only a complete idiot of a parent would buy this game without seeing it has a rating of M for Mature then whine and complain that they didn't know or just complain their child is playing it. If parents can't actually take responsiblity for their children when it comes to something as simple as buying the right vidro games for their children they shouldn't have them in the 1st place!!
You believe a preteen can't buy this game themself? It's F2P. Can you really be that gullible?
Unless its the child is paying for the mortage and electricity it goes back onto the parent to password protect the amount of time they have access to the internet and which sites they have access to.
This. You gotta ease them into the internet, not dump it on them. Same reason why we dont teach calculus in kindergarden. Of course some people grow up never learning calculus, but that is a problem for other discussions.
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bull. there is a difference between anime and hentai. and most animes have little to non nudity. sure, there are some, but even the western market has nude comics, that doesn't mean asterix or lucky like are porn comics tho ^^
the asians don't let their kids watch porn either.... as much as our parents let us watch it. anyway, kids (or in this case, teens) are abit like water, they will find a way.
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You guys are hilariour. There is no sex in Scarlet Blade. There's a ton of inuendo, but nothing a child would even grasp. If you even played the game you'd know that. An 8 year old wouldnt even get turned on by boobs, and the only way he would even know there is something wrong with seeing a pair, is if his parents taught him that it's wrong. There is never anything wrong with seeing a pair of boobs.
Its not cute, or anything when kids are around. Some parents dont care, others...I dont know.
Now,when my son comes home and asks me to play some god of war with him in real life without computers or internets,i can do it,i can do boxing with him and whatever horrors there is in that game,and i will lose of course.
but
When your son comes home,and ask you to play some Scarlet Blade with him in real life,you can be the punisher blonde and show how blondes do it or maybe he wants to be that.
What do you do a)yes
b) no
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My son wouldn't be playing either of those. Not because there is nudity. I couldnt care less about digital boobs. I do however abhor violence.
People keep talking about how they would react with their sons around. Has anyone asked how they would react with their daughter around?
All of my posts are either intelligent, thought provoking, funny, satirical, sarcastic or intentionally disrespectful. Take your pick.
I get banned in the forums for games I love, so lets see if I do better in the forums for games I hate.
I enjoy the serenity of not caring what your opinion is.
I don't hate much, but I hate Apple© with a passion. If Steve Jobs was alive, I would punch him in the face.
Same way.
Sadly, 85% of the population of the world don't see it this way. Instead of actually taking responsiblity for their child's actions they want to whine and complain.
Game companies or players should not be baby-sitters. It is the responsibility of the parent to know what type of activity their child is engaged in while online, and to set limits to the type of activity or interaction that they deem appropriate for their child.
There are several warnings listed on Scarlet Blade of the content in the game. Both on website, both in-game, and both on launcher.
The warnings are as followed and are listed visibly both on website and in-game:
M+17
Violence
Blood
Sexual Themes
Nudity
Drug Reference
Strong Language
It is not an excuse to say "I did not know this game had that!" when it is clearly listed the content that is available in this game. If another parent deems it appropriate for their child to play this game under their own roofs then that is their decision and their own rules. If a parent hasn't had the discussion of the themes of this game to their child, that is their problem. Some parents are more puritian than others. Some children will ignore parents and do what they please. Again, it is responsibility of the full-grown adult to know what is going on in their child's activity while online.
If a father has his favorite " Playboy Magazine" hidden away under his bed and his kid found it, guess what's responsibility it is? The fathers. Not the person on the street. Not the neighbor down two blocks. Not the manufactoring company of the magazine. The father is the one who put it there and he is also the one who failed to safe-guard the product from prying hands. Under the responsibility of his house, and his home the fault of the magazine is upon him.
Legally Scarlet Blade cannot be "soft pornography" and be sold to minors. If scarlet blade was "soft pornography" it would have real women in it like a play-boy magazine. Since Scarlet Blade involves no actual evidence of any real persons whatsoever, it is not "soft pornography". Mislabeled yes, but is actually called and considered 'Erotica'.
If the discussion of sexuality is deemed too much by a parent and or for a 17 year old to be playing a themed game like Scarlet, then it is the parent's responsibility to make sure their kid has no access to that game.
That can already be done by several ways through Parental Controls, talk-to-talk descisions and setting out the ground-rules of what goes and what not goes as long as they live under their roof.
I wonder what this poll would look like if there were less bias in the options.
Voted the last one because I am a rebel who wanted to see the results.
Some parents are more puritain than others. Then they wonder why their children grow up and get involved in different things(Drugs, Sex, etc) like haywires. Perhaps it is because of the obvious lack of sex-education(which ironically, is taught more in schools than what the average parent will discuss with their own kid) as well as the puritiasim roots of the holier-than-thou 1950's baby-boomer generation logic. Where shunning is viewed as an effective way of avoiding parental responsibility of explaning the naturality of the human condition and reproductivity instead of just being honest and discussion stuff with their child that they will come across sooner or later depending on their age.
Ironically, the rates of teen-prengancy and pre-teen prengancy have not gone down but have been on the rise. And your probably right, an 8 year old would not have the same reaction as someone older would. More than likely they might look towards their parents with a confused look. I know I would have. Yet it's ironic the mother can exposed her breast to her child as a wee-baby during feeding and nothing thought of it.
He's 12 and has both has been allowed to drink and smoke? Your parents are morons and they are the biggest cause of why kids do what they do. He also has guns at his age? Your parents should be slapped hard! They are a disgrace to parenting and if anything happens to that boy, it's their own pathetic doing.
As far as you, you're just as bad as your parents are. Who cares if you are with someone for however many years and yadda, yadda, yadda. You'll do the same exact thing with your kids and you're not any better than your own parents are.
You spoke of people worrying about other parents kids, etc, etc, etc; take your own advice and don't worry wether or not people feel like "sheltering" their children from people like you and your parents. Heck, I honestly despise people like you and your parents. So good job on achieving that. (I know, tempt ban for flaming. Well worth it).
Censorship is always a slippery slope.
But they should do some kind of an age check or verification like Second Life or Age of Conan have. Easy to get around I suppose, but better than nothing at all?
As to Scarlet Blade, the loud crying over it made me have to look it over, probably will put my thoughts in a new post sometime.
So you are suggesting I buy beer, cigarettes, a gun and a prostitute for my 12 year old and expose him to these things so he can make up his own mind?
Pretending a problem doesn't exist is not the same as dealing with it. Education is the solution not censorship. There is absolutely nothing wrong with giving a 12 year old guns as long has he or she is taught to respect them, taught proper gun safety, and has shown maturity enough with regard to them, and is properly supervised. There is nothing wrong with education children as to alcohol, cigarettes, and sex. If you refuse to talk about it then of course they are going to want to know more about these things and they will learn it on their own from less reputable sources than their parents.
I grew up on an Orchard in rural America and had guns myself at the age of 12, 20 years ago. It's people who don't understand things who end up abusing them. I would suggest you get a clue rather than simply despising an effective way to raise children. Fearmongering and censorship is a hell of a lot more dangerous for our youth than responsible educational methods. There is a reason the youth of today are so screwed up, it is all the moralizing and fearmongering that has been done in recent generations.
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Personally, I went through hunter's safety when I was 12 years old and my father bought me a 20 gauge shotgun and a 30.06 rifle when I completed it. I used those to go hunting with him. My niece was 10 when my brother-in-law took her out on adult supervised youth hunts and she has shot a deer every year she has gone now, nice bucks actually. She is now 14 and can say that she has guns since he gifted them to her.
I also had sips of beer when I was around that age and snuck a cigarette from my mother. I didn't like either one and didn't partake in them again until I went to college. Thank you dorm life!
You seem to have in image in your head of a drunk 12 year old with a cig hanging out of his mouth wildly firing guns into the air. Way to overreact.
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Scarlet Blade has warnings on it regarding it's content just like everything else. It's not up to the company to police who uses it after that other than the standard question "Are you 18 years or older?". If you have a problem with that, take it up with the government - it's their laws that are being followed.
Actually it "IS" up to the parents to be aware because you have to be a adult to even buy this game. Only a complete idiot of a parent would buy this game without seeing it has a rating of M for Mature then whine and complain that they didn't know or just complain their child is playing it. If parents can't actually take responsiblity for their children when it comes to something as simple as buying the right vidro games for their children they shouldn't have them in the 1st place!!
See that's the differnce between a good parent and some clown on the internet that thinks he knows everything. If you've ever spent any time trying to teach your kids anything you know no matter how well you explain something they are sometimes just too young to grasp it. It has nothing to do with exposing them so they can learn.
I remember trying to explain to my 3 year old where we were on a globe and he got quite upset because we lived on our street not on this funny ball I was holding. At the time he was just too young to understand. You never really know when they're old enough to get it until it happens but you should be there for the bigger moments to make sure they're getting the right message. Just dropping a young kid down in a game like this...isn't the right way.
Just lock him in a room with the internetz, so World of Warcraft, internet friends, and adult websites can teach him instead. I'm sure that works out well...
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Na. Anime children always have the tell tale big head thing going on. The elin in Tera would be a better candidate and they are just foxes (tails, ears...forest/fox spirits have more traction in the East)
There is NO miracle patch.
95% of what you see in beta won't change by launch.
Hope is not a stategy.
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Issue these days? You do realized that in society worrying about how people raise their kids has been the norm since well recorded history. Hell we even know that the Vikings would get into a parents business between their children. It is such a common thing in human culture through out, that it would be almost less human to not worry about how another parent is raising their children.
Unless its the child is paying for the mortage and electricity it goes back onto the parent to password protect the amount of time they have access to the internet and which sites they have access to.
Actually it "IS" up to the parents to be aware because you have to be a adult to even buy this game. Only a complete idiot of a parent would buy this game without seeing it has a rating of M for Mature then whine and complain that they didn't know or just complain their child is playing it. If parents can't actually take responsiblity for their children when it comes to something as simple as buying the right vidro games for their children they shouldn't have them in the 1st place!!
You believe a preteen can't buy this game themself? It's F2P. Can you really be that gullible?
Unless its the child is paying for the mortage and electricity it goes back onto the parent to password protect the amount of time they have access to the internet and which sites they have access to.
This. You gotta ease them into the internet, not dump it on them. Same reason why we dont teach calculus in kindergarden. Of course some people grow up never learning calculus, but that is a problem for other discussions.