Currently the new ratings will only apply to games released after June. “Without applying the rules to current games the policy will do little to protect the children who are already playing them,” Tofield said.
Overall I think the changes are positive but I think they definitely should apply to all and not just new releases.
Games lacking any way for users to report or block players online will receive a PEGI 18 rating.
Also this is interesting. I’m not sure how common it is to have no controls for this in a game but it should certainly make devs/publishers think seriously about it.
Good
As long as parents don’t give a fuck, this won’t change much.
Furthermore, this only theoretically protects kid, but fuck people with grambling addictions i guess…
Some things are preventative. There’s plenty of studies that show that the likelihood of developing a gambling addiction is higher for kids.
Kids won’t be able to play without stealing their parents ID or pointing a camera at a low res model in a web browser
The UK government decided in 2022 not to amend the Gambling Act 2005 to include loot boxes, saying no evidence showed a “causative link” to harms.
Since when is that something that stopped the UK government from trying to regulate technology and curtail its citizens’ digital freedoms?
Good
Does this include ever mob in an RPG that drops random loot? Like all of World of Warcraft?
This won’t affect Germany I think. We use the cursed USK bullshit…
Germany has enacted similar measures before the PEGI implemented theirs.
You can see the descriptors in the article you linked.
AFAIK the USK only gives them a 12+ rating, not 16
wasnt the idea to completely ban loot boxes and real money gambling like that?
