add a filter PEGI as an advance filter

[bfrog42fr]

When i whant to buy a game to my son i wish that i can filter games by PEGI levels

[david]

Feature Request: add PEGI selection to Advanced Search options

I would like to be able to select games by age according to PEGI (http://www.pegi.info/en/index/)

thanks!

[Jimo]

Not a bad suggestion!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmzNoX0a4Sw

[Fox]

david님이 먼저 게시:

I would like to be able to select games by age according to PEGI (http://www.pegi.info/en/index/)

thanks!

You'd need to provide a game with every rate available, as different countries call for different ratings (ESRB for North America, CERO for Japan, and maybe others), and being able to switch between ratings at will, depending on your reference scale. Otherwise, some people will feel like they are booted off a somewhat useful feature.
This isn't a quick work, especially when a quick Google search provide you with all the information you need, without Valve being needed for that.
Furthermore, I never thought seriously of such ratings, as they are frequently broken by everyone.

I disagree.

[david]

I thought of pegi because some games do already have such a rating in steam (quickly to implement for the steam-team) but in fact any age classification would help buying games for my kids. Now I have to browse through hundreds of games and is too time consuming. I tried the other way around as you suggest by first visiting pegi and then look up in steam if the game exists but again this is too time consuming.
Anybody other ideas?

[Satoru]

Note that many games are not PEGI/ERSB rated since they do not require retail release in those regions.

[hellonearth]

As a new user, and a dad of 2 8 year olds I am very surprised that this is not an option… get it sorted please

[hellonearth]

As my 2 get older I am surprised at how many of these type of platforms do not offer am easy way to filter out or at least easily find out about various certificates and ratings (Netflix being another one).

It seems obvious to me to include it … you don't have to use it, and if a games doesn't have one then fine, that game doesn't appear.

[Black Blade]

hellonearth님이 먼저 게시:

As a new user, and a dad of 2 8 year olds I am very surprised that this is not an option… get it sorted please

Well i will like to point out for you that to make a Steam account you need to be 13 (in the basic) and that games that are rated over 18 have the age page before you go in

So first of all is it not better you disable the kids to get to the store from the first place? or when you there put the wrong age for a game and all that age games will be block up to when you restart Steam

I do agree a filter like that for the family View will be good any way

[Satoru]

hellonearth님이 먼저 게시:

As a new user, and a dad of 2 8 year olds I am very surprised that this is not an option… get it sorted please

Again as noted above, many games do not have PEGI ratings. Thus a PEGI filter is not a catch all for content

[turbo_steve]

I suspect many of the responses on this thread aren't from parents. I would LOVE to be able to filter on PEGI, ESRB etc: this would be a massive feature for me.

Part of the joy of gaming is the voyage of discovery, and sharing this with your children (we tend to sit around the family TV) is doubly so: I have a 9yo and a 6yo and PEGI ratings are a godsend. There is nothing worse than buying a game, playing through it as a family, and halfway through hearing a swearword that my kids don't need to hear: it means I have to find the time to play-through any game prior to letting it near the family, which means I can't then join in solving the puzzles, as I've already solved them on my own (or had to find a walkthrough to get me through the game quickly so I've vetted it).

So the arguments regarding the T&Cs for a Steam account, and indeed the splash pages for 18+ games are somewhat spurious: the PEGI ratings (& ESRB etc) are there to help me make an informed purchase, and to save me the time of rating games myself.

It's a constant source of frustration finding an otherwise excellent game, and then discovering that it isn't age appropriate: being able to list games by PEGI category would save huge amounts of my time, and encourage me to "dip in" to steam quickly and make a purchase for the family.

Valve have made it clear that they want to push Steam into the living room (and right they are too - the PC-on-a-desk doesn't have long to live in most homes) and keep gaming social, both online and off. Family-friendly features such as this (and the ability to lock away my "grown up games in Steam, rather than have them in a separate account) will eventually become essential features.

[Moritz]

I fully agree to turbo_steve - and I'm absolutly disappointed that Steam does not really seem to care for this. Seems that Steam is focusing on families with children 18+. From a profit point of view I understand this as the best solution - as a father with younger children I would be glad if Steam would seriously take care on our needs.

Satoru, I don't understand your argument: If you can't get a 100% solution that's not a good reason to do nothing! For those games that are already rated (and I guess it's the majority of the games here) the rating is not even displayed! An optional filter for us parents would be perfect.

[Lefty]

Signed

After marking "Show games up to PEGI 7", games with Pegi 3/7 will appear, higher PEGI and no PEGI will not. Simple as that.

That'll also pretty fast force develpers interested in selling their PEGI<18 games to include that rating into the game.

And no, googling for PEGI is not an option, there's way too many games to treat google as a good workaround.

[Michel Baie]

Lefty님이 먼저 게시:

Signed

After marking "Show games up to PEGI 7", games with Pegi 3/7 will appear, higher PEGI and no PEGI will not. Simple as that.

That'll also pretty fast force develpers interested in selling their PEGI<18 games to include that rating into the game.

And no, googling for PEGI is not an option, there's way too many games to treat google as a good workaround.

... Yeah. But going directly to the PEGI website and making your search FROM THERE is an option that works. You'll find there all their ratings since 2003.
Also, it's fast.

No need for such a feature.

[Lefty]

Hibachi님이 먼저 게시:

... Yeah. But going directly to the PEGI website and making your search FROM THERE is an option that works. You'll find there all their ratings since 2003.
Also, it's fast.

No need for such a feature.

Yes, I saw that afterwards. It's better than google, but it's not what I'm looking for exactly.
If I buy games, I usually do that on steam special offers usually.

I'd like to ask steam - "Hey, what can I get to my kid for 5 EUR?", and then sort that by metascore or user ratings.

I agree that it's not critically needed update. But that's an improvement that will for sure be handy for some and shouldn't disturb others, so why not?

[Michel Baie]

Ok, now I get why you asked that.
There's not much games that are kid friendly here on Steam - or on the whole current game market actually, except on the nintendo consoles - so some tools to generate a list would come in handy.

That would also be a useful curator - maybe the only one. Maybe there's already a group that list those games?