haha, you bet, I'm excited to see it.

You have to be 18 to:
- vote
- have a driver's license
- buy a beer
- buy a pack of cigarettes
- get married
- view porn
- view M-rated stuff (as this is the highest rating anything can get anyway...)
While it doesn't make much sense, it's perfectly uniform.
Yeah, I know, those are local regulations. Then again - I don't think the Gog team really wanted to be strict about this. Hence the "You have been warned. ". It just means that you're on your own and have to make your own damn mind up about whether or not your innocent soul can handle a bit of tension and gore.
IMO - ratings are overrated...

It doesn't even give me the option to purchase with my account. Since I already have 15+ games bought on my account (M games included, which makes the whole higher than M 17+ thing they have going on very confusing), I really don't want to make an alt account and buy it like that.
EDIT: Never mind, found a way around it...

*thinks sideways, makes guess* Gifting to main account from an alt account works?

Hehe, a little creativity often does the trick. And seriously, I doubt that those massively pixellated images will scar his delicate 17 year old soul for life.

And there I was, thinking that "finding ways around things" was a Polish specialty ;)...
Also - the irony of posting about circumventing a rule in a same topic that states it... is not lost on me ;P.

Maybe....or maybe I did something else...
(changed my age)

tbh, I don't feel that abusing the system like that should be allowed. Obviously their rules are in place for a good reason.

Well, it's not like he was lying to get into the military or something like that. He just wanted to play an older game.

I was operating under the impression that since this is an Internet business, and therefore the sale has to be made through a bank or credit card account, his Responsible Adult Figure(s) weren't going to be in the dark on this. IOW, it wasn't they disapproved of the purchase of Waxworks, but that because his account indicated he was under 18, he couldn't buy the game on his standard account. Hence I ruminated that that the Parental Unit might be able to make an account and gift the game to him under his regular account. I'm all for parental knowledge on such things, but given his near-adult age and the screenshots I've seen, I doubt most parents would give this one the thumbs-down, unless they also bar Halo, Gears of War, Medal of Honor, etc. (Waxworks gorier than most any recent FPS on "full foe-shaped chunky bits" settings? I don't think so.)

Well, all he did was change his age. It's abuse. Even if his parents were aware of his purchase of it, because of bank accounts, credit cards, etc... then why even put an age filter if the people they're seeking to protect cant even buy the game without parental approval?
I am serious, this is abuse of the system, clearly the rules were in place to prevent children being shocked like that.

Maybe he was shocked at what could be done with the technology of old and how stale today's games' attempts at shocking the player really are? If not, then we can chalk it up to decline of the modern children.....

I didn't say that I agreed with his actual approach. I was saying that "if your parent buys it and gives it to you, to me that's essentially the same as your parent walking into GameStop/Wal-mart/Best Buy, providing the clerk with proper ID to prove age, purchasing the boxed game, and handing it you when they get home." Or, to take another example, the same as your parent going with you to the R-rated movie if you're only 16.
Changing his age on the account is more the equivalent of using fake ID at the counter, and I'm not saying I support that at all.