Why register your age to view trailer : V

» Tue May 03, 2011 6:01 am

I'm REALLY curious about why I have to enter my date of birth to see the Skyrim trailer. And I have yet to notice anything that could possibly be offensive to children - in this day and age.

Are they, perhaps, trying to measure their target audience in order to fine-tune the various sales angles?

» Mon May 02, 2011 9:33 pm

blood/violence/Mrated game/thread

» Tue May 03, 2011 2:13 am

Lawyers, probably.

» Tue May 03, 2011 4:54 am

blood/violence/Mrated game/thread

This. Although it's not rated M...yet.

» Mon May 02, 2011 10:49 pm

Because Bethesda is evil :flamethrower: :toughninja: :flame:

» Tue May 03, 2011 2:12 am

Did you not notice all of the killing and blood that was going on in the trailer?

» Tue May 03, 2011 8:18 am

you need to register your age to access the site, not just the trailer, and that is because Skyrim is a rated M game, or is going to be

» Tue May 03, 2011 1:59 am

Are they, perhaps, trying to measure their target audience in order to fine-tune the various sales angles?

Interesting point of view. As bizarre as that sounds, it'd definitely not shock me if someone was to collect marketing demographics in such a manner. You have to wonder about all the falsified data though. So many kids must put 1932 or something far out. All of that data would need to be purged.

» Tue May 03, 2011 9:50 am

Just put in the year you were born in. You don't even have to fill out the rest. Goes for all them.

» Tue May 03, 2011 12:05 am

Interesting point of view. As bizarre as that sounds, it'd definitely not shock me if someone was to collect marketing demographics in such a manner. You have to wonder about all the falsified data though. So many kids must put 1932 or something far out. All of that data would need to be purged.

Oh yeah I always put mine as Jan. 1, earliest year possible because I don't really want to spend time looking through all these numbers to find my exact birthday

» Mon May 02, 2011 11:16 pm

Are they, perhaps, trying to measure their target audience in order to fine-tune the various sales angles?

Hmmm...

» Tue May 03, 2011 8:59 am

Interesting point of view. As bizarre as that sounds, it'd definitely not shock me if someone was to collect marketing demographics in such a manner. You have to wonder about all the falsified data though. So many kids must put 1932 or something far out. All of that data would need to be purged.

Image how useful that is when people like me just make up a birthday.

I mean, I don't give my personal information out to anyone over the internet whose name, address, and cell phone number I don't know.

~ Dani ~

» Tue May 03, 2011 5:46 am

lol Idk, but if they're trying to survey the age of their audience... I think they're going to find that a surprisingly high number of them are 99 years old.

» Tue May 03, 2011 7:51 am

Interesting point of view. As bizarre as that sounds, it'd definitely not shock me if someone was to collect marketing demographics in such a manner. You have to wonder about all the falsified data though. So many kids must put 1932 or something far out. All of that data would need to be purged.

It can't just be this, because I wasn't able to access the site when I said I was born in 1994. Even though I'll be 17 by the time the game comes out.

» Tue May 03, 2011 8:29 am

Image how useful that is when people like me just make up a birthday.

So what's the point of them since you can lie?

» Tue May 03, 2011 9:12 am

So what's the point of them since you can lie?

Lawyers, probably.

I think your answer lies somewhere in that realm . . .

~ Dani ~

[And as for me lying: I'd be complete moron to give out any personal information on an insecure website.]

» Tue May 03, 2011 3:15 am

I think your answer lies somewhere in that realm . . .

~ Dani ~

[And as for me lying: I'd be complete moron to give out any personal information on an insecure website.]

Well so far anybody that reads these forums already knows you are a person named Danielle (Dani) located in Chicago, Illinois that really enjoys playing TES games... Just sayin'....

» Tue May 03, 2011 8:51 am

I'm REALLY curious about why I have to enter my date of birth to see the Skyrim trailer. And I have yet to notice anything that could possibly be offensive to children in this day and age.

Are they, perhaps, trying to measure their target audience in order to fine-tune the various sales angles?

Morals have dropped to poor levels in recent times, but I still don't think a 9 year old should see a throat get cut open or a skull split with an axe. But those things are very poor at doing that. Most kids know if they take the current year, subtract 18 and enter that number they are able to see the content(then the parents go on a war path because their kid was exposed to graphic content). Hell, I'll admit I've been looking at 'mature content' almost since I got my own computer(in 7th grade).

» Tue May 03, 2011 2:35 am

Well so far anybody that reads these forums already knows you are a person named Danielle (Dani) located in Chicago, Illinois that really enjoys playing TES games... Just sayin'....

Haha! I didn't intend for it to sound bad when I said you lied. I was implying it's a pretty faulty system.

» Tue May 03, 2011 2:39 am

lol Idk, but if they're trying to survey the age of their audience... I think they're going to find that a surprisingly high number of them are 99 years old.

Only 99 year old, I wrote 1001 as year of birth making me 1010 years old.
Can somebody try with negative numbers please.

» Tue May 03, 2011 2:18 am

The trailer was pretty much Teen Rated.

» Tue May 03, 2011 3:05 am

Well so far anybody that reads these forums already knows you are a person named Danielle (Dani) located in Chicago, Illinois that really enjoys playing TES games... Just sayin'....

Very true. I wasn't thinking about that when I joined the forums. Besides, since then I've had an experience that convinced me that there are people who will use your information to track you down - for good or not.

Since last year, I've become a lot more careful who I give information to. And you should too!

Haha! I didn't intend for it to sound bad when I said you lied. I was implying it's a pretty faulty system.

No offense was taken.

It is a faulty system . . . or at least a silly one.

~ Dani ~

» Mon May 02, 2011 10:14 pm

Very true. I wasn't thinking about that when I joined the forums. Besides, since then I've had an experience that convinced me that there are people who will use your information to track you down - for good or not.

Since last year, I've become a lot more careful who I give information to. And you should too!
~ Dani ~

Very true =) There are some sick people out there. Better safe than sorry, eh?

» Tue May 03, 2011 6:00 am

Very true. I wasn't thinking about that when I joined the forums. Besides, since then I've had an experience that convinced me that there are people who will use your information to track you down - for good or not.

Since last year, I've become a lot more careful who I give information to. And you should too!

No offense was taken.

It is a faulty system . . . or at least a silly one.

~ Dani ~

LOL

» Tue May 03, 2011 2:54 am

LOL

How was that funny?