It’s been an ongoing meme for years now that it’s only the 13 year old kids that play call of Duty. However, it seems like the popular shooter has dropped further down the human food chain to seven year old kids. A recent NeoGAF post by user, The Lamp, describes how he was invited to a birthday party of a seven year old kid, and the theme was Call of Duty! Here’s what he had to say:
Am I wrong for thinking this is a little…inappropriate? The cake had a grenade and gun and bullets on it with a little 7 on it. The kids were clamoring over eating the pistol and the bullets. When I asked what to get the birthday boy, I was told he is obsessed with the CoD games this year. And I’m like…wtf is he doing playing CoD at 7? I got him a Lego Marvel game instead.
I guess I played rated M games as a kid, but I was like 12…6/7 is kind of too young imo to be encouraging a kid to obsess over that level of brutality and serious themes IMO. It’s not my kids so I obviously didn’t say anything, but I don’t think it’s right.
What do you say, GAF? Am I being too judgmental or is it kind of inappropriate for a 6/7 year old kid to be obsessed with CoD?
Maybe I am getting old, but I remember when I was seven years old, I would be playing games like Mario and Tarzan. Shooters like Call of Duty do seem really inappropriate for young kids, and is bound to have some negative impact on them.
Did you use to play shooters or violent games when you were really young?
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