I work at GameStop and today a Latino woman and her son came in. The son (who looked like he was around 13 or 14 years old) spoke English fine but the woman had very broken English. What I could make out from her is that she wanted to pre-order Halo Reach for her son. I was very concerned because she might not realize what kind of violence and language she would be exposing her son to so I had my other GameStop employee (his name is Ricardo, speaks Spanish and English) warn her about the game's violence in Spanish and she was able to understand and then scolded her son for trying to get such a game. Did I do the right thing?
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Yes and no... you probably did a good thing for the online community though.
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While I don't agree with the "violence and language" part, you did your part to keep more 12-year old's from playing Halo online.
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From a gamers POV it would seem wrong to stop him from playing the game and its just messed up that she scolded her son. You were just doing your job earning an honest dollar, it's up to her how she would react to that.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] VastDillon yes[/quote]and I would/ have made the same call every once in a while... *gamestop employee high five* edited for an atrocious sentence... lol [Edited on 09.09.2010 5:28 PM PDT]
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Good move dude.
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I think so. While the rest of us wouldn't consider the violence and language to be much of an issue, evidently the mother did, and that's all that matters. Good on ya, I say.
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Yes, you were just doing your job.
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Uh... yeah. You did the right thing. If you had let her just buy it without conferring with her son, you would have been sort of an impartial mediator that didn't do anything. If you had just said no, you would have been in the wrong as I don't believe it would be your right to do so. But I digress.
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Ethically? No. As a fan of Halo? Yes. You just denied a little fan boy his reach.
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Heres how I view it as... *If he was Mature: YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF FOR LETTING THE KID NOT HAVE SUCH AN AWESOME GAME IN A FEW DAYS... *If he was infact a immature kid: im proud of you my man. You saved us from another little kid on Halo. [Edited on 09.09.2010 5:24 PM PDT]
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Well, technically the ESRB rating is a suggestion to the parents but being 13 my self, dick move bro.
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Yes. It's the parents choice on how to raise their kid. She obviously didn't want him to get it once she found out what it was. So even though you may feel -blam!-y you did the right thing.
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Probably
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Because Reach has so much violence and language. Hell, the game isn't even RATED for language. Bungie keeps it clean. Now watch the kid go get Call of Duty: Black Ops which has probably 50 times more violence and language.
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