• teletext@reddthat.com
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    20 hours ago

    1st. There are no official ratings, only self-imposed industry standards.

    2nd. A USK or PEGI label is not even needed. The developers or publishers only need to click a handful of checkboxes to self evaluate their game.

    Both is mentioned in the article.

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      19 hours ago

      I tried to read that article. You’ll notice that the end of my message refers to the Steam rating system, which is mentioned towards the end (or at least I think it was the end) of that article. Problem is, this site is utter fucking shite, and most of it was obscured with scrolling tracking ads as I always trying to read. So yes, I missed the part about it just being a form to fill.

      As for “official”, yes, I know PEGI/ESRB/Whatever are industry-controlled. But for better of for worse, they’re still used as reference, and they’re third party (though clearly not that independent). It’s still different from declaring yourself what your game contains.

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          19 hours ago

          Yeah, well I tend to give sites I don’t know the benefit of the doubt, which is why I don’t ad-block by default. Now I know this one doesn’t deserve to exist at all.