• RobotZap10000@feddit.nl
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    23 hours ago

    At this moment, any teaching or glamorisation of simulated gambling automatically leads to a PEGI 18 rating," the ratings board stated

    The PS4 box art of FC24. It is very clearly labeled PEGI 3

    An in-game screenshot of FC24, showing its loot box store

    An in-game screenshot of FC24, showing its premium coin store

    A screenshot of the live-action Balatro trailer "Friend of Jimbo", with only Jimbo's face in the frame

    Who’s the clown now?

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          46 minutes ago

          The PEGI management board is people that publish games, people that make consoles and trade organisations.

          None of whom want to see sales go down.

          They’re behind the bonkers decision that representations of gambling are worse than actual gambling.

          PEGI mainly exists to save publishers bothering with each country’s classifications boards. Before that you’d have like BBFC in the UK, and each country having to rate it. It’s industry self regulation, and like any good fox guarding the henhouse, they’re not doing a great job of it.