Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

Just now I checked my PS4 storage, I found my Story of Seasons Friends of Mineral Town was rated Parental Control Level 9 for a kids game ?! 😳
I got PAL version with PEGI 12 label on it for Simulated Gambling icon on back cover and it considered as Level 9 Parental Control ?!
That's too far to label Simulated Gambling from Horse Derby Race as bad as Real Casino gambling. 🤨
It didn't use real money, just only my currency in game.
It should be labeled Parental Control level 4.
My other PS4 games with some moderate violence like Ratchet & Clank with Animated Blood was rated Parental Control level 3 ?!
What is going on with that logic?

@Owl1 whoa, whoa, wait what? I’m going to look this up lol.

@Snatcher oh gosh, what have I done...

@Owl1
I know you said the sidequest at foothill stable was weird, but that was nowhere close to what I was expecting. I wanna talk to the designer who came up with that bright idea.

@ComfyAko Yeah, I've heard from my mum about awful teachers to work for but surely if you had government connections you'd use them for something better than a teaching job?
@Snatcher Ah right.

@Anti-Matter As I have complained before if something like that was released now it would automatically get a PEGI 18 rating yet lootboxes are fine in their eyes, PEGI are crazy.

@Anti-Matter There is no logic. You can find PEGI 3+ games that should be 12+, other way around, 16+ for something completely irrelevant, etc.

@TeaCatherine Yeah I mean not the gov't like the prime minister or other higher ups, but on the local level with the mayor or something, depending on the legal structure of schools in each country.

Lootboxes are fine, you get things for free + the thrill of gacha

@ComfyAko Microtransaction lootboxes are pretty bad in my opinion.
@Anti-Matter Eh, just different cultural standards I guess.

@Anti-Matter waito, Ratchet and Clank had blood? Guns are fine, they are purely fictional and shoot beams that turn people into sheep. I'd say R&C are 7+

@TeaCatherine sure, but nobody actually buys them with real money, so it's ok

@ComfyAko Some people do, that's why everyone makes a massive fuss about them.

@TeaCatherine As if not buying them wasn't an option

Ah, people will make a fuss over everything just for entertainment

@ComfyAko That said, a lot of them are in games with a young player base that is lacking in restraint.

@TeaCatherine It's good to learn that gambling doesn't pay off early in the life

@ComfyAko I mean, I guess but still.

@ComfyAko
It is.

Look at the descriptor from ESRB rating
Animated Blood here is a green slime from dead monsters after you shoot them.
Not every monsters will spurt green slime after dying. I have played the game and it wasn't really disturbing for me but it's very unnecessary added as the dying monsters can just disappeared without spurting any colored liquids.

The Asia version (Singapore packaging) mentioned IGRS 13+ for Ratchet & Clank PS5.

It has Animated Blood inside according to ESRB and also I found the Clank in one scene was swearing with **** on the screen and censored sounds. It indicates Mild language.
Even on USK German rating it mentioned USK 12 with green color logo.

@blindsquarel someone said, yes, this is a good idea, and everyone went with it.

@Owl1
Someone in the office must’ve wanted to work from home that day.

@TeaCatherine I mean better to lose 30$ and not get the skin you want than to gamble 10.000$ at the casino, right?

@Anti-Matter I still find it hilarious, you shoot a green blob and it spews green slime and it counts as blood, lol

@ComfyAko Well, yeah but better if neither happens.

@TeaCatherine That would be perfect, yeah.

But we need an imperfect solution for the imperfect world of ours

I hope I don't sound too negative, I'm trying very hard to be positive