Warning: This is my opinion, please refrain from flaming even if you feel insulted
With the recent 'suggestions' by the ESRB to change the cover of Left 4 Dead 2, I feel it is time to bring this to the attention of others.
I feel gamers and developers are giving the ESRB too much power over the influence and production of gaming, originally, the ESRB was only supposed to rate the game to help consumers better understand the content within a game, but now they are getting too involved in the production of gaming itself, limiting the developers' ideas and the full beauty and artistic storyline, gameplay, and graphics to a dulled down version of dog excriment in a blender.
Video games are just like movies, and you dont see many movies being dulled down to such a level a small child could watch it, so why should games? Games rated M for Mature are goign to be played by people ages 17+, they see the gore and violence on basic cable television, why should a game that CANNOT be sold to minors have to be dulled down? I feel this is a great step back in the evolution of not only gaming, but a step off a cliff into a machine that will grind you into a sticky paste to be sold in canned dog food. We are gamers, we are MATURE gamers, why should we be subjected to games that are not to its fullest, most bloodiest and gruesome nature? Goto a video store and goto the horror movie section, look at those covers, they havent been dulled down, Ive seen covers with severed arms and brain matter, what is a little rot on a video game box compared to that?
We as a community have to stand up against the ESRB, we are not children anymore, we are adults, and adults should be treated as such, give us the gore, give us the guns, give us the nudity and hot coffee, we dont want to be stuck played childrens games, we want to play what we desire.
Thank you. and please place comments as to what you think.
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Yep, and that’s been the case for Xbox for at least a decade now.
No doubt they alienated their physical media fans, but that happened way back with the Xbox One. What they’re alienating now are just the box collectors.
Speaking for myself... I pretty much stopped buying physical. Unless its some cool collector edition. I find it easier to just buy from the respective eshop.... if its not on a rental service that is.
Going into the 7th gen I was staunchly against the idea of digital game. Even the few PC games I played were physical. It wasn't until digital only games starting catching my eye that I changed my mind. Now I buy mostly digital these days out of convenience but also because I have too many phyical games. SNES, GG, GB, GBA, N64, Dreamcast, DS, 3DS, GCN, Wii, Wii U, PS1-5 and Switch. That's hoarders level of gaming right there. 🤣
Anyway digital sales in several parts of the world, including here in the US have been on the rise. Factor in the Series S being the go two model for Xbox owners it just makes sense for Microsoft to scale back in regards to physical media. That and Xbox published games stay high on PSN. 😆
Unfortunate really since I am an avid collector of physical on Nintendo consoles and I bought Black Ops 6 on disc.
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The Xbox version of Final Fantasy XVI has failed to enter the platform's top 20 paid games list, indicating weak launch sales performance.
Day One Release vs One year later release with zero marketing to build excitement/hype.
Both Xbox and SE should know better.
Also fewer than half the consoles sold compared to the PS5 so much smaller customer base.
I get that the game was older.
But so were Sea of Thieves and Forza Horizon when they came to playstation and those made it into the top download lists for awhile. So the coming a year later excuse doesn't really fly anymore.
look at stellar blade on PC. over a year later and it's already sold over a million copies. this has nothing to do with marketing or hype. the xbox audience, broadly speaking, just doesn't purchase games.
Excuses lol. Everyone already knew this would be the case. 90% of Xbox players don't buy games.
If it ain't on gamepass, they ain't interested.
Great job MS for training most of your player base to not want to actually buy games, maybe SE will realise releasing FF on xbox isn't somehow going to help them match their exaggerated sales targets. Hopefully remake fairs better, probably will on Switch 2 at least.
You realize it got most of its sales on PS5 right? Not even the PC version did all that well. One platform will take most of the sales as it had moat of the hype.
No game, especially a AAA one, deserves strong sales after taking years to arrive on a platform and still asking the same price as everywhere else. You can’t just ignore a platform for that long and then expect people to be excited by the release. That cycle came and went already, there is no hype for it anymore.
Either you're all in from the start or you're not. This lazy, bare-minimum approach of tossing out a late port and calling it a day shouldn't be rewarded. If you're not willing to respect the platform, don't bother showing up at all.
But the formerly exclusive Xbox games like Forza Horizon enjoyed great sales on PS even after years past their initial release.
Your references to deserving and "shouldn't be rewarded" implies that gamers are buying games based on some moral platitude that simply doesn't exist in practice.
Gamers buy games because they want to play them.
Nah, it implies how it should be. If gamers weren't the dumbass consumer class around, being played like freaking dumbass because they can't get over the hype for a freaking second and think if that purchase even make sense.
This is EXACTLY why they wouldn't and shouldn't bother im the first place. I can't remember which FF game launched on Xbox with the Switch and Playstation version and ONLY did 4% sales on Xbox. So lets not pretend these sales would have been better because if you believe that you are absolutely delusional
"Either you're all in from the start or you're not. This lazy, bare-minimum approach of tossing out a late port and calling it a day shouldn't be rewarded. If you're not willing to respect the platform, don't bother showing up at all."
Weird. How come you don't say the same about Xbox studio games that show up some YEARS/DECADES later as well?
Sea of Thieves
Grounded
Forza Horizon 5
Pentiment
Hi Fi Rush
Gears of War
Mostly at full price and selling well. Oh right doesn't fit your BS narrative
i also think its stupid because its the parents that buy the game then they turn around and cry about how bloody the game is STFU there are web sites that tell you about the game and right on the box it tells you intence violence im 19 and wether i go to kmart walmart gamestop i always get my id checked so dont sell to people under age and problem solved..........and ceep checking blogs not enough get approved
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Its the fact that the game is sticking two fingers up to anyone that sees it in a retailer, specifically in the UK, can be very insulting. Say for example, would you buy a game which had a front cover giving you a middle finger aka The Bird before you even consider buying it?
I'm fairly sure that the ESRB aren't too happy with the possibility that someone could recognise it as 'F**k You' on the front cover.
"Palm facing the signer
* Two – indicating quantity although more common with palm turned around.
* Insulting (mainly 'f**k you') – largely restricted to the UK, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.
* Peace – in the USA without respect to the direction."
Source; Wikipedia.
Basically, Valve didn't do their research. Might've well put this up. Its nothing to do with the amputated hand.
I never ever licked the ESRB. I mean I would see a movie that is rated PG-13 then the game is rated M. That is wayyyyy higher than T for teen or PG-13. So Watching a movie with more of nearly everything and rated 13. Then the game thats toned down and graphics are not as good as the monsters in the movie and hte game is rated M. Also star wars battlefront. THat game was T and it really should not. It had minimal violence, and I did not here any bad language. I think ESRB are here to make games worse and end them rather than help. PEGI is miles better than ESRb. i WISH the US would have this rating company because its way better. Also I agree with every word you said.
they should start arresting parents when the kid does a crime and they find out the parent got them an underage game