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ESRB ratings board won't follow recent PEGI changes

Confusion for parents was the cited reason.
Rock Paper Shotgun

US regulator won't follow Europe's lead and stick higher age ratings on games with loot boxes and daily quests, since it might confuse parents

US ratings board the ESRB have revealed they won't be mirroring PEGI's recently announced changes to how games containing the likes of loot boxes are rated.
GamesIndustry.biz

ESRB will not adopt PEGI age-rating changes in the US as it "could be confusing"

"There are no plans for ESRB to allow any factors outside the content and context of a game to influence the age rating," says organisation ...

‘We Had to Take Nothing Out’ — Extreme Horror Game Hellraiser: Revival Gets Its ESRB Rating

If you’ve seen anything of the upcoming survival horror game Hellraiser: Revival, then you’ll know it isn’t for the faint of heart. Full of bloody violence, gruesome gore, and BDSM-themed sex and ...
GameSpot

Hellraiser: Revival Passes ESRB Rating With All Of Its Extreme Horror Intact

"I can say that we have our ESRB rating, which was great, and we had to take nothing out for that," Willits said to IGN. "We're working with all the other ratings groups now, and I think that we're ...

Europe's PEGI will raise age ratings for games with loot boxes and microtransactions

Starting in June, the Pan-European Game Information (PEGI) age rating system, Europe's equivalent to the ESRB, will begin assigning PEGI-16 ratings to all games that sell ...