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Absolutely, business must always fight restrictions. It affects their profits when minors are required to ask an adult to approve purchases. Hell, it affects purchases anytime someone else is involved in the decision. In the case of games, minors are their market. For most of the games in question, marketing strategies revolve around 12-25yo's, so the last thing they want is a aging primary decision-maker getting in the works. Now they have to sell you, and convince your parents it's good for you. Those messages are often at odds and if your parents care it's probably not an automatic sell. That can be good or bad.
Don't mean to be pedantic, but realize who the ESA is fighting for.
BTW, how many here have raised children? (ducking)
The Schwartzenegger aspect is interesting. He must feel very stretched at this point.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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