ok, might not be illegal exactly, not sure, been a while since I actually looked this up in Canadian law or what ever, I'll do that after this post just to be sure. but i do know there is a huge (or at least large) fine that can be placed on the employee if caught selling an M rated game, the second time the store gets fined and the third time could mean the employee's job. again, I'll look into this at my store for the sake to being sure.
but the point is, I have not ever sold an M rated game to somene who was not 17 as far as I know, I've turned dozens of people away because they wanted to buy Halo, While a cool game with not much bad content (violence...thats why its rated M...) I still would not sell it to them, how ever pissed off they were at me.
my orginal point still holds water tho, the ESRB is there for a reason and it's not the kids fault for getting a hold of as he puts it "Murder Simulators", its the ignorant parents who don't give two ****s what their little brat plays.
Now, my nephew has a copy of GTA:III, I gave it to him, he enjoys it... he's 8... but i've sat down with him, I've talked to him about whats right and whats wrong, that you don't do in real life what you see in games and I know he understands me and I know he just plays the game for the dirving around the city, sure he rams the occasonal cop car for a chase, but he does the missions drives around and all that stuff. he's a violent kid, but he was violent WAY before he played GTA... he's kinda the mommas boy that knows how to pull strings, when he does not get something his way he gets violent... his dads trying to fix that... but i'm rambling.
I'll let my nephew play "certain" M rated games because I've talked to him and I know he's able to tell right from wrong and won't take the games seriously, and thats why so many parents have so many things wrong with their kids, they just don't give a **** what they do. "oh, they see it in movies and TV anyway".
Yeah, we sort our games by system, then we have a new release section for each system that has the new released from the last 4 weeks or so on it, after four weeks the old games go onto the regular wall which is sorted alphabeticly. (suprisingly enough, customers who know this still look for an A game in the S's....) we then have a "hot hits" section that head office sends us and tells us what to put there, usualy the top selling games of the month go there.
2.) Major publishers and distributors actually buy/bribe prominent shelf positioning from retailers. This is fact you don't hear about very often - because major companies don't want customers to know that 'popularity' is for sale. [/quote]
every month we have a vendor of the month that pays head office big bucks for a large display at the front of the store, this month it's Mad Catz, last month it changed every week, Sony, Ubisoft, Microsoft paid mucho grande for two weeks at the front. (during Xmas no less) but we usualy have good deals with the VOM too, as I said, Mad Catz is the VOM this month and if you pick up one MC accessory you get the second of equal or lesser value for half off.
They weren't reall lying, they were just guessing... EB games does that sometimes, they anticipate a game being really good, so they tell us to put it in our hot hits section a week before it comes out hopeing that it'll sell as good as they want it to... Perfect dark Zero was a good example... it was hyped up alot before release and head office sends us stuff telling us to put it in certain places cause it's hot hit....
they want the game to sell really good so they made it a ho hit before it's even on the shelf.
