Jordan Garland: Ever since its inception in 1912, the British Board of Film Classification has been the stalwart shining beacon of hope in an otherwise filthy sea of puerile perversion, or so the legend goes. Nowadays there is relatively little debate as to the clarity and the purpose of the system and has been legally binding since the Video Recordings Act of 1984, which sought that all commercially available video recordings had to be certified by the BBFC in order to receive a release.
PEGI, the Pan-European system for the age classification of video games, is adding new categories to its classification criteria to address online interaction risks. Starting in June 2026, newly submitted games will be classified with a broader set of criteria that will focus on content and functionality, such as purchases of in-game content, paid random items, communication features, and features that incentivise players to continue playing.
Growing up playing sports games like the original FIFA games particularly 98 road to world cup being a favourite sports games were so much fun pick it up and you'd be playing instantly
Now you spend a stupid amount of time in menus and basically playing fantasy football it's just boring
If ea is forced to ditch lootboxes it can only be a good thing
PEGI is currently investigating the issue.
to be honest, the whole age rating system needs a big overhaul. people are not as sensitive as some of these make us out to be ha.
Most of the ratings boards these days allow self examination and primarily work on a honour system.
Since the rise of streaming there's way to much content for governing bodies to shift through themselves so it's become standard practice in many places to rate it yourself on where you feel it fits into the scale so this is not the only thing that extorts the system but just one that got caught.
However back in my day you'd be selling a game on its rating being super high like doom but guess times have changed
The Video Standards Council, which administrates the PEGI age rating for video games, has rebranded to the Games Rating Authority (GRA).
The name change was attributed to further clarifying the ratings board's position to parents and the games industry.
