Comment The unfair contrast - or shoddy journalism? (Score 1) 103
The most striking feature of the article, IMHO, is a contrast between fairly reasonable (though still flawed) statements from Jenkins and obviously bogus statistics, personal attacks and broken logic from Thompson.
I support enforceable game ratings, and there are valid reasons for them - for example, while parenting matters the most, there needs to be responsibility from businesses providing content, whether it is movie theatres or game sellers, etc. But I disagree with almost everything that Thompson says. Whoever had set it up had to know that this won't be an unbiased discussion, because it is not a reasonable debate when there is an extremist on one side. Makes one wonder who benefits from this one - hard to find a better ad for game industry supporters ;-)
I support enforceable game ratings, and there are valid reasons for them - for example, while parenting matters the most, there needs to be responsibility from businesses providing content, whether it is movie theatres or game sellers, etc. But I disagree with almost everything that Thompson says. Whoever had set it up had to know that this won't be an unbiased discussion, because it is not a reasonable debate when there is an extremist on one side. Makes one wonder who benefits from this one - hard to find a better ad for game industry supporters
