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Who's the clown now?
The publishers own PEGI.
Whatever rating they want, they get.
Huuh?
The PEGI management board is people that publish games, people that make consoles and trade organisations.
None of whom want to see sales go down.
They're behind the bonkers decision that representations of gambling are worse than actual gambling.
PEGI mainly exists to save publishers bothering with each country's classifications boards. Before that you'd have like BBFC in the UK, and each country having to rate it. It's industry self regulation, and like any good fox guarding the henhouse, they're not doing a great job of it.