How do you expect Steam to work against this? This is not a decision that Valve has any word on, its a decision by government. The only thing that Valve could do here is, remove those games for that country. But that is not a solution. If anything, the citizens of the UK should do something, if possible.
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ook@discuss.tchncs.de 22 hours ago
That is actually a relatively mild solution that makes the age verification almost bearable…
…which is terrible, because age verification as a whole is a terrible concept. Woukd have been nice if a big player like Steam is working against it, but I also never expected they would, they are commercial after all.
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 21 hours ago
apotheotic@beehaw.org 19 hours ago
Honestly, if they removed those games then it’d get people riled up and hopefully get them to take action against this crap
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
I don’t agree that it’s mild. They explicit will require credit cards as per the law, debit cards won’t work for it, which is a huge deal.
seralth@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I mean children can get debit cards. Having a bank account has never and should never be a bench mark of age.
Heaven sake I had a bank account at 12 years old.
Unsecured Credit should realistically be straight up illegal to give to children.
So no it’s not a huge deal at fucking all. Unless you have a sizeable amount of financial literacy. And don’t understand what a credit vs debit card actually mean.
At best you can make a weak argument that having to get a credit card is annoying. But 300-500 dollar low limit free credit card with no requirements or annual fees. Is available basically from every bank in the world.
Get it and throw it in a draw to rot for literally forever. Hell you can even cut it in half it and freeze the card. Making it a zero security risk.
Then you have a unusable, frozen account. That exists purely as proof that your old enough to have a credit card. Even if it’s stolen it’s unusable and still perfectly safe.
So you don’t even have to care about data breaches beyond what you currently do.