[PIGMI] R18 Classification Review

[Liam Jones]

"I think team work in a game compared to team work in a real life game like hockey or AFL is a little bit different. The team work in an online game is very crude and its really primitive like the original hunter/gathering we do its more like a pack, of wild animals."

I couldn't disagree more. 


 From: Michael B 
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 10:06 PM
To: pigmi at pigmi.org 
Subject: Re: [PIGMI] R18 Classification Review


I think team work in a game compared to team work in a real life game like hockey or AFL is a little bit different. The team work in an online game is very crude and its really primitive like the original hunter/gathering we do its more like a pack, of wild animals.

But thats not saying people learn to care about the life and wellness of the team by the age of 18 online. And on online games its irrelevant anyway.

I'm sure all the things listed for r18+ classification are linked to real life situations, and if the thoughts entering the minds of people playing the games dont relate it to real life then thats irrelevant too.

But i think after a period of time it might have some effect (if not just a persons original skills deteriating) and so it should be more like r3- classification - no more than 3 years of being really anoying to people in a game. :-P

Michael



On 1 December 2010 18:19, Kat Black <kat at vjzoo.com> wrote:

  Three of them if you count wii and kinect ;)



  On 1 December 2010 18:16, Liam Jones <ijebus at hotmail.com> wrote:
  > "Fitness, skill development and teamwork"
  >
  > I think that it could be argued that gaming develops two of those three.
  >
  > --------------------------------------------------
  > From: "George" <gt at crunchyfrog.com.au>
  > Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 5:11 PM
  > To: <pigmi at pigmi.org>
  > Subject: Re: [PIGMI] R18 Classification Review
  >
  >> A very good question Jack.
  >>
  >> Is it because sports have more obvious positives to them, such as fitness,
  >> skill development and teamwork, whereas playing a game has less obvious or
  >> immediate positive benefit, other than simply being entertaining...?
  >>
  >> I think it was Penn & Teller that did an excellent comparison of the
  >> actual likelihood of your kids being injured as a result of competitive
  >> sport vs playing video games. No prizes for guessing which one was the more
  >> dangerous activity :)
  >>
  >>
  >> On 1/12/2010 3:29 PM, Jack Casey wrote:
  >>>
  >>> Why doesn't someone do a comparison of violent behaviour of young adult
  >>> video gamers vs young adult AFL players?
  >>> I don't get why people are trying to prove or disprove that playing a
  >>> violent game might make you more hyped up and violent for the next hour
  >>> (duh). When it surely also happens with most any other competitive activity
  >>> (let's say, paintball?) and no one has any problem with those?
  >>
  >>
  >> --
  >>  George
  >>
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