BigBadOrc wrote:I think smoking is the perfect example of why it is the designers fault for using intentionally misleading advertising to get you to use their product. Consumers should be able to trust that companies will not lie to or mislead them. This needs to be regulated better.
Smoking and gaming are nothing alike, nor are the addictions even remotely the same. Besides, if you're getting on smoking for using appealing advertising...that's the whole POINT of advertising. They use attractive women in their adds? So what, a lot of products do, and when you get right down to it, who's to say that you can't smoke with an attractive woman at your side? It does happen. Putting intentionally ugly people in the ad would also be misleading. And besides, what's attractive in any aspect is a matter of opinion.
I've personally never even seen an ad for world of warcraft, and know exactly what it is. It doesn't need advertising...so many people play it, it could spread like wildfire just from one person to the next. They don't need to put swimsuit models in their ads...and even if they did, your average gamer knows better than to take it seriously. If anything, it'd be a comedic statement.
Calling for government regulation on everything is foolish, and a waste of resources that could be better spent on things that matter. Keep in mind, even a tiny bit of regulation requires a great deal of money. What we should be doing, is creating a society in which people know how to make their own choices...not create a government which is too large and restrictive, allowing people not to use their brain, because the government makes all their decisions for them.
People should know to take the media with a grain of salt, so to speak...if you believe everything you see and hear, and don't know how to think for yourself...I'd say you've got a bigger problem than a damn video game.
Don't blame the media and corporations for the blatant stupidity of mankind....some people ARE idiots, and DO make bad choices...the majority of us get along just fine. We needn't waste valuable tax dollars and resources over advertising. If they're making a statement that's false on a major point, then yeah, there's an issue...especially if it involves medication or something of that nature. But who they get to be in the ad? I really don't give a shit. Seeing a swimsuit model in a cigarette ad doesn't make me want to run out and by a pack.
Next you're going to start saying people's brain waves need monitoring, because on occasion, some of us have bad thoughts, and the government really should keep track of that.
You don't hear about these problems in other countries...Europe is notorious for having full blown nudity in commercials for...well, anything. And no one gives a shit. Problems like these are American....because we LET them be problems. Because we refuse to make people accountable for their own actions and decisions. It's not the governments job to make sure people aren't idiots....and if we continue to make it the government's job, it just encourages people not to be accountable. That is NOT a problem we want.
By the way, my 'net's down, so if you're gonna try to argue, I'm probably not gonna see it. Just FYI.
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