Comment on WTF?! Players in AU have to use a CC for age verification via steam just to view "violent" games!
ms_lane@lemmy.world 15 hours agoYou need a Credit Card.
The Visa Debit I’ve had on file with steam for ~19 years was rejected. The account is older than the age requirement, Valve has had the card longer than the age requirement, but still no.
I used that card to buy DEFCON and that’s so long ago Valve no longer have records of it (transaction history starts at The Orange Box in 2007 due to changes almost 20 years ago, which was purchased with that card…)
snooggums@piefed.world 15 hours ago
My guess is that the law doesn’t allow wiggle room for using account age.
ms_lane@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
It does, it also allows multiple other forms of ID (some are far worse than CC though, face scan? GTFO) and is required as part of the ‘fairness test’ to offer several different ways of identifying.
Valve have opted only for CC, which is actually against the regulations (only allowing a single method, method that only ~40% of adults as per Parliamentary inquiry have access to)