Steam users in the UK will need a credit card to access “mature content” games

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• ook@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨19⁩ ⁨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.

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  • BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨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.

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    • seralth@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.

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  • thingsiplay@beehaw.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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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    • apotheotic@beehaw.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨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

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