As long as parents don't give a fuck, this won't change much.
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Furthermore, this only theoretically protects kid, but fuck people with gambling 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.
I think the problem is less that the legislation is targeted at children and more that it is very easy to circumvent. Unless they start enforcing mandatory age verification for every game / gaming service that is, but even then you could just buy an account or game keys.
I'd rather they blanket ban all lootboxes
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
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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.
Overall I think the changes are positive but I think they definitely should apply to all and not just new releases.
Don't worry... they'll figure out how this somehow applies to Balatro.
I can see how it becomes difficult to implement for already-released games that already have boxed copies in stores.
I wonder if this loophole will make all games currently out MUCH more valuable to investors.
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 has that been something that stopped the UK government from trying to regulate technology and curtail its citizens' digital freedoms?
Money
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?
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