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ESRB comments on Animal Crossing slur, discusses the used-game issue
GoNintendo —
... people that online interactions are not rated, and that the experiences may vary. If some jerk adds the F-bomb to a game cart as a saved name, trades the game in, and a little kid sees the message…the ESRB is not the one who should get in trouble. They can’t police what people do with games once they get them. They can only rate titles based on the content from the publisher, and warn about what could happen once the online world comes into play. That’s exactly what the ESRB does now. More ESRB comments here This entry was posted on Friday, December 5th, 2008 at 5:55 pm and is ...
Does Animal Crossing Slur Incident Show Fault In ESRB Ratings? [Animal Crossing]
Kotaku —
... "read-only," immune from such problems. MTV also got in touch with GameStop, the mega-retailer whose business thrives on selling used games. Reps there said that the company has a policy to wipe data from the game it buys back, but that some things may slip through the cracks. I know that I've come across a stranger's data more than once in my used game purchasing history, but found nothing that could be considered offensive. Has anyone out there in Kotaku land? ‘Animal Crossing’ Slur Incident Doesn’t Expose Used-Game Ratings Loophole Say ESRB, GameStop ...
ESRB, GameStop See No Loophole in Animal Crossing Racial Slur Incident
GamePolitics News —
... Both GameStop and the ESRB view the Animal Crossing episode as an anomaly and deny a larger problem. MTV's Totilo writes: ...
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