Several times I have worked in video game stores or in department stores where video games were also sold, and many times I have come across the pathetic scene of a supposedly responsible father, buying his son games like ‘MadWorld’ , ‘Left4Dead’ or ‘ Dead Space ‘.
When the father confirmed that the game is for the child, I had a moral obligation to warn him that the games he was wearing were not recommended for his child. That on the back comes a notice that it is for people over 16 or 18. Obviously they ignored the notice and a few days later the woman, the child’s mother, came to return the game because it is excessively violent.
The PEGI system is there for something, and absolutely all the games that are sold are very clearly specified both the type of content and the recommended minimum age to play it. Even so, it seems that people do not find out and the symbols that come in the boxes are going to be colored evoking a traffic light to see if this way it better enters the eyes of those who buy games for others.
In this way, from now on the boxes will go with a colorful warning that, in addition to indicating the recommended age, as well as the “harmful” elements of the game, the age symbol will come in the colors green, yellow or red , in function the commented figure.
Thus, the ages of games for those over 3 and 7 years old will go on a green background, those for ages 12 and 16 on a yellow background and in red for those over 18.
Via | Joystiq
