Its good that you are trying a lot more people should be like you. Considering though your son’s friends are playing this game just shows parents are not willing to keep these games out of there under-age son’s or daughters hands

@Truk:

Of course its not your job to follow them home but if I had a job as retailer I would ask the customer if they are the ones going to play it. But I would also point out the age rating and content of the game. I would probably get a lot of hassle for that but parents really seem to not notice the 18 certificate that’s sitting on that game when they hand it to little billy of 12.

I don’t know how old you are, but let me tell you this:
I’m what some would call a hardcore (silver)-gamer and I have a 15 years old step-son.
You may have NO idea how fucking hard it is to convince a 15 year old boy to NOT play GTA4 while almost all his friends at school and online (XBL) are playing the game …

I’ve succeeded so far, but this is not as easy as you might think.

Edit: the retailer is also to blame its there responsibility to make sure these games are only going to be played by adults.

I fully agree!

Simply dismissing any relationship between real-world violence and violent video-games is as stupid as putting ALL the blame on games.

see what he said there ? “partly”..not “fully”.
I think he has a point and simply dismissing this out of hand doesn’t help the problem.
It’s like a few years ago when people said rap had nothing to do with youth violence…I beg to differ. The connection is obvious. It doesn’t mean that you listen to rap and it makes you go and kill someone but a lot of kids are influenced by these things.