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Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe
PEGI will assign loot boxes a minimum age rating of 16 and NFTs a rating of 18 to improve parental guidance on game content across Europe.
- Pan-European Game Information is set to update its most significant age-rating criteria soon, applying new rules to games released after June across PEGI territories including the UK.
- Amid growing regulatory pressure, European regulators are cracking down on loot boxes as interactive risks, aiming to help parents and consumers make safer choices online after research found loot boxes blur gaming and gambling.
- Classifying specific features, PEGI's new rules state games with paid random items will be PEGI 16, non-fungible tokens PEGI 18, and paid battle passes PEGI 12 with punitive daily-return mechanics raising ratings.
- Market effects include changes to marketing, sales and access across PEGI territories, with EA Sports FC potentially rising from PEGI 3 to PEGI 16 and Diablo Immortal blocked in Belgium and the Netherlands.
- Advocates urged retrospective application, with Emily Tofield warning 'Without applying the rules to current games the policy will do little to protect the children who are already playing them'.
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The new rules also look at features within games and the way players are encouraged to spend money or keep playing longer.
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The European video game age classification system, Pan-European Game Information (the famous PEGI system that accompanies video games in its cases and advertisements), prepares one of the biggest reforms in its history: from June new criteria will come into force that will strengthen classifications in Europe, especially in games that include in-game purchases, loot boxes or systems that encourage continuous use.
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The Pan-European Game Information (PEGI) Age Classification System prepares...
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