Name: Anonymous 2007-02-18 13:00
"The day ended, however, with the specter of stiff federal game regulation rearing its ugly head once again. That's when presidential candidate Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) reintroduced the Truth in Video Game Rating Act, which would require the ESRB to play all the way through the final build of games before rating them. While that may sound reasonable to non-gamers, those in the know quickly grasped that such a measure would drastically slow the release of games with long play times, such as epic The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. It also raised the prospect that open-ended massively multiplayer role-playing games like World of Warcraft could be prevented from ever being rated--since they have no end--and would therefore be effectively banned. (Riots in Azeroth quickly ensued.)"