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Yes, disclaimers are there to protect.
Yes, the requirement to have the player click yes or no is important because THEN it's on the player, NOT the dev, if someone underage does play, because there is no way to argue they didn't realize it was going to have adult material.*
If there's no button to press, it can be argued (stupidly) that the player "missed" the notice.
Is any of this ever likely to come into play? Probably not, but that's why 95% (if not all) of the games have it.
*Unless of course the player can prove they can't read, but then you have other issues in play.
Yes, the requirement to have the player click yes or no is important because THEN it's on the player, NOT the dev, if someone underage does play, because there is no way to argue they didn't realize it was going to have adult material.*
If there's no button to press, it can be argued (stupidly) that the player "missed" the notice.
Is any of this ever likely to come into play? Probably not, but that's why 95% (if not all) of the games have it.
*Unless of course the player can prove they can't read, but then you have other issues in play.