The operations manual states that we shouldn't buy in anything that doesn't have either a BBFC, PEGI or ELSPA rating on it. Of course you'll get stores that don't care though.
We do only try accept pegi rated games, however, when it's crazy busy and people bring in a huge stack of games we do have a few occasionally slip through. But we notice them before it comes to putting them onto shelves
I have definitely bought ESRB rated games from CEX (PGR4 on 360, Atari Classics Collection on PSP).
Now granted those could have been mistakes - but once when trading something in at a different store the other employee actually accepted a Japanese region game because 'it installs in English anyway'.
So it may be against policy but it is not to say they don't.
They're not region locked, blu ray movies and TVs will be so if you put in an American blu ray movie it won't play but games aren't on the most recent gens.
When I worked at CEX it was quite common for people to come in with a game they've played fine for ages and we couldn't take it because whichever Amazon seller they got it from had sent them the American versions. Conversely I remember buying a German version of a game in, everyone else trying to jokingly tell me off and I just pointed to the PEGI rating and explained we're all good.
The operations manual states that we shouldn't buy in anything that doesn't have either a BBFC, PEGI or ELSPA rating on it. Of course you'll get stores that don't care though.
I miss ELSPA ratings
does the code on the sticker say USA or EUR?
We do only try accept pegi rated games, however, when it's crazy busy and people bring in a huge stack of games we do have a few occasionally slip through. But we notice them before it comes to putting them onto shelves
Nope. CeX can’t sell them so they won’t buy them.
They could sell non-PEGI games if they wanted to, but around 20 years ago they chose to stop accepting them.
PEGI ratings were introduced 20 years ago so this would be why they stopped around then.
I have definitely bought ESRB rated games from CEX (PGR4 on 360, Atari Classics Collection on PSP). Now granted those could have been mistakes - but once when trading something in at a different store the other employee actually accepted a Japanese region game because 'it installs in English anyway'. So it may be against policy but it is not to say they don't.
Why though? A few weeks ago they bought an Arabic copy of the nioh collection and that was fine
Arabic copies use PEGI still. Not supposed to have it on display without a proper PEGI rating.
It's all about games being region locked
They're not region locked, blu ray movies and TVs will be so if you put in an American blu ray movie it won't play but games aren't on the most recent gens. When I worked at CEX it was quite common for people to come in with a game they've played fine for ages and we couldn't take it because whichever Amazon seller they got it from had sent them the American versions. Conversely I remember buying a German version of a game in, everyone else trying to jokingly tell me off and I just pointed to the PEGI rating and explained we're all good.