What's in a Mature?

mr.dad

i am 15 years old, but alot more mature then anyone of my peer group, i understand that you think that most kids my age have this great thing called commen sense, but in all honesty, we don't, my generation has some of the stupidest kids i've ever seen, half my school deals drugs, is in a gang and smokes and drinks and has unprotected sex, and where did we learn all these great things? from parents telling us they were bad, from news telling us it was bad books, and so on, but three great things tell us its fine, music movies and games, and you show me a teenager who doesn't watch or listen to either of those medias, and i will show you a blind deaf-mute, what really needs to happen is we need to learn bad from good from somebody we trust, not an authority figure or an adult, but there isn't anyone to tell us that, its classic, you tell a kid not to eat the ice cream and they do it BECAUSE you said no, not because they wanted to, its a confusing thing, and i doubt anyone will find an answer, and its still getting worse

Hello to all I have to say the kids are right on the money with this one I have three boys form 5 to 17 and they see more mature things on CNN or FOX news and all the other news on TV today but the sad thing about what they see on the news is the real thing not a game. My point is there is a show call first 48hr and it shows how the cops get the killer in the first 48hr and the list can go on and on as a Dad (40 years old ) I feel you know your kid the best and if you feel like they know and understand what is real and what is a game let them play.
All this they are going do some thing to some one that they seen in a game is bull what if they had never seen what a gun could to some thing but in a game they seen that it could hurt some thing.
Will you see now they know what it the gun can do
They can see the same thing on the news or first 48hr but all they will hear is that a gun shot killed a man at the bank he was trying to rob and that he owed the IRS some back tax's or he was a mad customer that had lost his home because he could not pay back the lone to the bank he was trying to rob and the cops shot him as he was trying to get a way.
My point to all this is that games and TV do not make people do dum things people do them becaus that is what they think they need to do and that is a part of the world we live in to day.
As for Microsoft they are trying to keep the moms and dad that will never let there kids grow up happy so pleas don't get mad at them I was a big ps2 fan but I love xbox live and you know you can allway open a new email account and have all you other email go to your new one at hot mail but I am not telling you to do this with out talking to mom or dad and tell thim why you need to do this

all you have to do is when you turn 17, you go into your settings and upgrade from your child account to you adult account, that's all there is to it, just wait.

This is ridiculous! As a gamer, I make it my job to be on top things - I can't be because I used my email address (which states my age, 16) to create my live account: Now I'm screwed. My parents approve of me buying/downloading and playing M-Rated content (like watching PG-13 movies when you're 12) and it's my call and my parents' call what I play, NOT Microsoft's. This needs to be fixed - and PLEASE: M means 17+, what genius on the Microsoft team thought it was 18. Once again, parental controls should dictate if a 'child account' can access M-rated stuff, there needs to be an option in place!
Ross (SHOCKERRA)

How about some people stop complaining to microsoft about their age limit over xbox live and just wait to be 18.

I have a similar problem. If my friend logs in as Guest, he still can't play on live with me. Help please.

This whole thing is so stupid. Microsoft is basically punishing everybody who didn't lie about their age. If my parents are fine with me downloading mature content, Microsoft should not go and stop me from doing so. This is what happens when companies give in to all the stupid over-protective parents who aren't smart enough to control what their kids see on their own. Also, why on earth would they make it so you have to be 18 to download content for 17 and older? Microsoft really needs to fix this crap.

I made the mistake of making a child acount for my live. but i just made another account that is not a childs account. whenever i want to download an m rated demo i log onto that account and download it since silver accouts can still use marketplace. then i log of and go on my main account when the download is done, and it is right there in the demos section.

@ gamermonk64:

exactly right. If it was porn, that would bee a problem, but Microsoft (and sony and nintendo) asserted that that they would never have adult content on their consoles. The fear of being called a "porn box" is too great.

this whole child account baffles me. Why cant its status be change at will? I apparent;y have a child account, but i the "parent" account dosn't recognize me as its responsibility. According to xbox.com, the parent account mus revoke the child status, but how can i do that if there is no connection in the first place? This is complicated bu the invisible age value. Once again according to Xbox.com, the Xbox saves your original age, and uses that age even if you change it later. There is no way for parents to let their kids download free m-rated demos and game videos. Its a shame, because i might then buy more games if i had access to the hype-inducing videos.

I can understand giving parents the ability to control their kids access to video games, but i have a problem when they take away the parents' control as well.

Im in middle school and play mature games. My parents allow me and it doesnt affect me at all. I also watch R rated movies and i do great in school.

I have the same stupid problem because i used my e-mail adress so it gave me a child account. Now i cant download any mature content no matter what the family settings are set to.

thats crap! i try that every day and it still doesnt work!!!!!!

Yeah,I have the same problem but every time i do that dashboard thing it never works!

I'm in pretty much the same boat as re4pwns.

Gamertag-Al Jack Wright
I like to play

if you were Microsoft, or any other multimedia distributor, would you want to be hit with frivolous laysuits everytime a non-adult (read: under 18 years of age) downloaded a game or video and then got into a fight at school or failed home econonmics ... however unrealeated the two may be? don't put it past some parents to blame video games and television for all of their kids' shortcomings / normal teenage rebellion ... the important thing is that if YOUR parents allow you play M rated games and watch R rated movies it's their responsibility how you handle yourself after the fact as long as MS gives them the option to block you from it.

This is terrible. I'm really wondering what's the worst that could happen if some kid downloads a demo of rainbow 6 or crackdown. They aren't going to become desensitized to violence or have unrelenting images in their heads. I think the rating is really unnecessary. Now if there was something really explicit like porn or adult videos than i could see this to be more reasonable.

Im 14 and I hate the fact that microsoft added another year so I have to wait 4 more years instead of three. Luckly my parents think Im mature enough to handle an M rated video game.

Well would you lookie there...my question got displayed. Too bad I've tried this, and know all this, and none of it works. *sigh* Darn Microsoft and their skewed sense of 'of age'

that is terrible. M is for 17 and up, but Microsoft just added an extra year. They really need to stop pandering to the ESRB's every whim. Parents should decide what their kids can watch, not Big Brother Microsoft. The new rule with the downloads is unreversible by parental controls, and nothing can be done from the consumer's end except to lie about your age.

i am 17, and i have been playing M games for quite a while. My parents believe in my ability to handle "extreme" content, and i think that is all that should count. It is annoying that i am being punished for telling the truth about my age, and to make a new account means that i sacrifice my gamerscore. PLEASE FIX THIS, MICROSOFT.

Yeah I have the same problem. It really bugs me when Microft puts E, E10, or T game demo/trailers on marketplace but writes RP right next to the file description (the one that the "family settings goes by). I tried emailing Microft and tell me about advertisment banners :(. At least give our parents the option to set the content that we can download.

The thing I don't understand is that Mature Content is 17+. Therefore, a person who is 17 but started with a child account still cannot access content that is mature. I think there needs to be a fix before I turn 17 in a month.

Actually there's a new rule: Any account under 18 cannot download mature rated or RP rated content.