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ELSPA has new rating system
The ELSPA wants to be ahead of their game and have proposed to add colors to the current PEGI age rating system the industry voluntarily uses.
I wonder why everything needs to be regulated so much. Can't people think for themselves anymore these days? If you hear politicians it's like they've got nothing better to do. Like, let's say... solve a worldwide financial crysis thanks to our economic system having gone insane?
Elspa's proposal would maintain the Pegi procedure and age limits, but says it has taken a lead from the food industry by adding 'traffic light' colours. Higher age limits would be red, with more general audience titles tagged green.
"We're offering this idea as a direct consequence of the Byron review; the system needs to remove the potential for confusion and this is what we're doing," Elspa deputy director general Michael Rawlinson told the BBC.
The UK's British Board of Film Classification, however, believes the addition of colors - or PEGI as a whole - is completely unnecessary as their own system is well-established and if they feel a game is inappropriate, they can just ban it. Easy enough."We're offering this idea as a direct consequence of the Byron review; the system needs to remove the potential for confusion and this is what we're doing," Elspa deputy director general Michael Rawlinson told the BBC.
Sue Clark, a spokeswoman for the BBFC, dismissed the effort, saying that colour was not the prevalent issue in the debate.
"Changing the colours of the Pegi symbols is not copying the food industry," Ms Clark said.
"There is a system in place already which people know and understand and which in fact uses the traffic light colours, and it's called the BBFC system."
As usual when people want to regulate stuff, the government will come into play and a final decision is expected next year."Changing the colours of the Pegi symbols is not copying the food industry," Ms Clark said.
"There is a system in place already which people know and understand and which in fact uses the traffic light colours, and it's called the BBFC system."
I wonder why everything needs to be regulated so much. Can't people think for themselves anymore these days? If you hear politicians it's like they've got nothing better to do. Like, let's say... solve a worldwide financial crysis thanks to our economic system having gone insane?
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