The "Teen" rating.

[Scotty]

Re: The "Teen" rating.

It doesn't really matter who the players are, the adult player base simply isn't big enough to warrant a business success.

I say again, from my personal experience, adult gamers are far and in between. Most adults simply don't find time to play even 1-2 hours games a week, not to mention that it's simply not fun for them.

Now I am not saying that adults don't play game, I am a very busy premed student and I play a lot of battlefield, I am just saying that adult gamers are exceptions rather than the norm.

If gaming is really popular in the mainstream world, why don't you see major TV program showing adult gamers everyday? (like in Korea?)

Sorry, but you are wrong. The demographic for nearly every videogame company at this point is the 24-35 year old age range. While we may not spend as many hours in front of the computer or TV as a kid or teen, we have the purchasing power that they do not have. We are also the generation that grew up as videogames were blowing up. Just about everyone I know plays games in one form or another and to a child or teenage kid, we would be considered "adults".

EA went with a teen rating so that they could capture even more of the market. That doesn't mean that they were afraid adults wouldn't play it, but that they wanted to make as much money as possible by having it as accessible as possible by a wider demographic.

[Shlarty]

Re: The "Teen" rating.

ooo sof2 was the bees knees... how I loved to get stoned and feast on all that gore and subtle skill that took months to master...it had a great intimacy and the clan battles were amazing sometimes...but things move on and bf2 is me new love :) though if sof3 came out i would quickly return..

[Hu.Z_of_PLA]

Re: The "Teen" rating.

You're right, I live in Houston Texas, where things seem a mite more civilized than the Silicon Valley, from the way you describe it :P

Texas is a more civilized place? You mean the place where everyone drives a pickup truck with guns hang in the back? If that's your thing, great.

[Sir. bzb]

Re: The "Teen" rating.

Censorship is never an easy debate, i personally feel that presenting the notion of violence in a non bloody way to be wrong- for long and drawn out reasons and a debate that really would fit this community given its age ranges.

As for commercial power adults win, we earn money and we say how we spend it. If a baby buys its own pram ill accept teens have some consumer power beyond fashion that adults cant defeat by simply going to a supermarket and buying the mundane things of life.
We buy presents for our familys, such as overpriced video games and of course we crave to escape back to the world of play that we were robbed of when the electric bill first arrived at the door.
We are the market with the highest disposable income because we need to escape the real world as ofton as possible and deserve to, if we choose to make you feel young and have to point out that you are far from the first to discover the gaming world then tough- you cant even vote for it, we cant go cold turkey on fun.
Old people rule the world after all and as preperation to our upcoming duties i think we should be given total control over game content.

Do i come accross as being bitter that i had to get old(ish)?

Anyway its better that we keep playing computer games rather than take up Golf or gardening or driving really slowly to the middle of nowhere on a Sunday. Thank us for our commercial power, we save you from living a Golf filled hell.

Best regards,

The too young to yet be old people.

[Tegan]

Re: The "Teen" rating.

Texas is a more civilized place? You mean the place where everyone drives a pickup truck with guns hang in the back? If that's your thing, great.

You love to generalize don't you? Everything you have said in this thread is a generalized cliche piece of crap. Yah, everyone rolls around texas with pickups and guns. What are you, 12?

[Scotty]

Re: The "Teen" rating.

LOL! ^^^^

While I agree with you and that is basically what I was trying to say in my last post, I take issue with your insinuating that there is something wrong with golf :p

[imported_Phenomenomenon]

Re: The "Teen" rating.

I very much doubt that adult is a large porportion of the buyer demography. College students are the oldest reasonable age group to throughly enjoy this game. I would imagine anyone older than that would be bogged down in their real life obligations.

33 here. I think the BF 2 community is older than you might think, as I've witnessed on other polls.

[Baron Fuzzy]

Re: The "Teen" rating.

You love to generalize don't you? Everything you have said in this thread is a generalized cliche piece of crap. Yah, everyone rolls around texas with pickups and guns. What are you, 12?

I live in Houston. I have a pickup and guns.

[Tegan]

Re: The "Teen" rating.

I live in Houston. I have a pickup and guns.

That's nice. Not everyone does. To say so is a gross generlization.

[Hu.Z_of_PLA]

Re: The "Teen" rating.

That's nice. Not everyone does. To say so is a gross generlization.

I wondered about your age when you started accusing where I live (e.g, California) being Un-American.

Hence I brought out the Texas comment.

[ggxjimmy]

Re: The "Teen" rating.

damn, my belly still hurts from the ambilical cord cut, but blood and gore would turn this game around (btw check out operation flashpoint for skilled games that only adults play,well theres exceptions to that rule :P...the new OFP is comming out this year Armoured assult or OFP2)

an older community definetly makes for better gaming, kids can be sooo....noobish??, i mean did you really have to first have to shoot me while we sprinted to the chopper pad, then chase me round in circles with your knife. then just as chopper spawns and i get pilot. you get that M95 out and put my brains into the exhaust. then that message that has stained my CRT screen "player xxxpornstarfreddiexxx has initiated a kick vote against victemno.65"

kids get money from mum and dad for games dont cha know. they certainly put in the hours.the 16-20y/o folkes dont play as much becasuse theres more interesting things to be done. and i think it just depends on the indiviual after 25 or so if they even want to look at a PC

[tw1g]

Re: The "Teen" rating.

The reason people aged 24-30 or 40 whatever it was is because their kids get them to buy it for them.

[Tegan]

Re: The "Teen" rating.

I wondered about your age when you started accusing where I live (e.g, California) being Un-American.

Hence I brought out the Texas comment.

Actually, by your terrible grammar and the way you talked, it didn't SOUND like the US. I didn't even know you lived in California til you told me, so yah...

[Tegan]

Re: The "Teen" rating.

The reason people aged 24-30 or 40 whatever it was is because their kids get them to buy it for them.

People 18-30 (the largest game buying demographic) generally don't have children old enough to play most of these games dude :P You guys are deluding yourself if you think only kids play games, or that adults aren't a huge game buying/playing/enjoying demographic. You sound like the polititians on capital hill, "Games are only for kids".

[ZemonerZ]

Re: The "Teen" rating.

first we all have to remember that to run BF2 you have to have a computer that is not your office 486, that requires dinero, MUCHO DINERO, so I would completely agree that the gaming industry relies on the 24-35 age category as their main base because we can actually buy our toys and not beg mommy and daddy for an X800