Electronic Arts' Keith Ramsdale: PEGI is still best choice for game classification |
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The Byron Report has caught the attention of quite a number of individuals with a stake in the video game industry. While others have agreed with the conclusions made in the report, some have questioned the recommendation that the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) be given the responsibility of rating all games classified as 12+ by PEGI.
Electronic Arts' UK vice president and general manager Keith Ramsdale recently spoke about the Byron Report saying that while they welcome Dr. Byron's review, the video game industry as a whole has been unanimously clear that the system they want to use is PEGI. Here's why:
PEGI is an efficient system to help people make appropriate content choices for players of all ages. A Nielsen study showed PEGI has 94% awareness with the UK game-playing public and it follows a tougher regime than the BBFC. In 2007 PEGI gave 47 titles an 18 rating but BBFC downgraded 21 of those to 15 or less.
He further explained that the adaptation of a system specifically for the UK will bring about certain difficulties such as "added complexity for developers, publishers and crucially retailers." An interesting point considering that PEGI will still be used by other countries. In effect, all games will have to be rated by two separate organizations.
Ramsdale continued by saying that EA believes that PEGI is the most suitable system for rating games at the moment. In addition, they will "engage with the appropriate Government departments to ensure the right decisions are made in the best interest of the British public."
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EA sucks.
And as such doesn't accurately reflect what people in the Uk regard as offensive. For example a game has some sex scenes in and PEGI will rate it 18 where it might be as low as a 12 in the Uk. The separate system is necessary if enforcement is going to happen on age restrictions in the Uk (as it should).
I'm an avid gamer, and an american, but had no idea about this "PEGI" thing before I searched for it. Turns out it stands for Pan European Game Information. Yes, you read right: European.
PEGI isn't a 'yank' system. You must be thinking of the ESRB.