Shockwave_Fox
Member
Do debit cards work as well?
It needs to kick of massively in the UK and soon - the government is a disgusting joke and we need a serious complete reset.
Steam now requires age verification in the UK for mature game pages
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It needs to kick of massively in the UK and soon - the government is a disgusting joke and we need a serious complete reset.
Xion_Stellar
People should stop referencing data that makes me feel uncomfortable because games get ported to platforms I don't like
I guess willingly leaving the European Union and their anti-immigrant sentiment hasn't work out for them like they though it would huh? But trying to go all Nineteen Eighty-Four on their population isn't going to make things better.
Wildebeest
Member
Politics is rough in the UK because few people who are actually capable of being highly competent and not corrupt would even consider going into politics. The pay isn't good, you can't actually do as much as you think you should be able to because all the power has been given away or crippled by bureaucracy, and the media attention is hellish. Add to that many of the more skilled people in the country are leaving because who wants to live in a place where the economy is so stagnant when they can easily relocate to places with much better money and living conditions.
CuteFaceJay
Member
Not sure as I was using PayPal on mine for a long time I think it still had one of my old debit cards but that expired long ago and I've not bothered updating it and at this point I kinda don't want to.
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Duchess
Member
As a note - it must be a credit card, not a debit card.
Debit cards are available to those from at least 11 years old, whilst credit cards are for 18+.
Personally, I prefer this method of age verification to uploading a selfie and passport, but it's still bullshit.
I got hit by the requirement to do it whilst browsing Reddit, to find out whether my cat was constipated. No, that's not a lie. Again - I was hit by a requirement to verify my page to read a post of constipated cats. What the actual fuck..!
Debit cards are available to those from at least 11 years old, whilst credit cards are for 18+.
Personally, I prefer this method of age verification to uploading a selfie and passport, but it's still bullshit.
I got hit by the requirement to do it whilst browsing Reddit, to find out whether my cat was constipated. No, that's not a lie. Again - I was hit by a requirement to verify my page to read a post of constipated cats. What the actual fuck..!
Hudo
Member
Also important to note that the current US government doesn't give a flying fuck about whether shit it prohibited or not.Important to note that government-imposed age verification for mature games is prohibited by the First Amendment in the United States.
CuteFaceJay
Member
If that's the case then my Steam Deck might be RIP. Ever since 2008 credit crisis I refused to get a credit card.
TheSHEEEP
Gold Member
Not sure if credit card is the best way to go about this.
But my guess is that the vast majority of people in the UK have no issue getting one, so it's probably fine.
Well, except for the kids, who'll need to get their uhm... waifu material... elsewhere.
Oh no. What a loss.
But my guess is that the vast majority of people in the UK have no issue getting one, so it's probably fine.
Well, except for the kids, who'll need to get their uhm... waifu material... elsewhere.
Oh no. What a loss.
th4tguy
Member
Pc
thats not true. There are plenty of states that have passed regulation that require age verification to access certain content. Just not a federal law
pudel
Member
Its coming for everyone in the west...dont worry! UK just seems to be the test balloon right now.
Duchess
Member
According to GamingOnLinux, debit card verification was a bug:
Update #2 - 19:33 UTC - Valve press replied to GamingOnLinux to confirm allowing Debit Cards for verification was a bug, which has now been solved.
Steam UK users will now need a credit card to access mature content due to the Online Safety Act
Valve recently put up a new support page, detailing the steps they've taken to comply with the UK Online Safety Act.
www.gamingonlinux.com
yurinka
Member
"a bug", what a dumb excuse xDDDAccording to GamingOnLinux, debit card verification was a bug:
Update #2 - 19:33 UTC - Valve press replied to GamingOnLinux to confirm allowing Debit Cards for verification was a bug, which has now been solved.
Steam UK users will now need a credit card to access mature content due to the Online Safety Act
Valve recently put up a new support page, detailing the steps they've taken to comply with the UK Online Safety Act.
If it was a bug, then why it only was in the UK, and not in the rest of the work? A country that also made other similar retarded dystopian shit recently?
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T-Cake
Member
Well I can't get one. I did previously have one but gave all my money to GabeN and now can't pay it off.
TheSHEEEP
Gold Member
That sounds like it's a good thing you can't get one anymore.Well I can't get one. I did previously have one but gave all my money to GabeN and now can't pay it off.
ecosse_011172
Gold Member
I don't get all the fuss tbh, I grew up in the UK and there has always been such a fuss over the likes of ID cards which are normal in other European countries.
Clearly, trying to stop kids getting access to adult material is not a bad thing so what's the problem with proving your age?
I don't understand, what's the big deal about using a credit card , what's the massive effect on people's lives?
I'd love to hear (apart from baseless conspiracy theory stuff).
Clearly, trying to stop kids getting access to adult material is not a bad thing so what's the problem with proving your age?
I don't understand, what's the big deal about using a credit card , what's the massive effect on people's lives?
I'd love to hear (apart from baseless conspiracy theory stuff).
Tams
Member
And a lot of the UK have looked down upon them for that.
They aren't a very 'British' thing. Trust, integrity, gentlemen's agreements, 'cricket', etc. are the values that should make it so we don't need things like ID cards.
Sadly, due to reasons, some partly the fault of those other European countries, such values are increasingly lacking in the UK, especially amongst some of the new arrivals.
ecosse_011172
Gold Member
Which reasons?
Your British things are Victorian stereotypes and bear little resemblance to reality.
What's wrong with ID cards? How do they negatively effect the European people who use them?
For example, Switzerland is a far more trust-based society than the UK and no-one whatsoever has an issue with ID cards.
TheSHEEEP
Gold Member
Here we have a wonderful example of primarily blaming everyone except yourself, a habit very common among people voting for whoever screams the loudest and blames others the most.
They don't.
People had unique IDs (and other means to clearly identify them) for centuries now, pffft, millennia.
That whole trust-based blabla ala "gentlemen's agreement", etc. never once in history worked in the first place, which is why stuff was written down and controlled since people can read and write (and partly before).
It is romanticized nonsense - people cannot ultimately be trusted, and that was never different, nor will it ever be.
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ecosse_011172
Gold Member
When I jump on a flight to Spain, train to Italy without a passport, only my ID card, it's terrible. Because something something government bad or something..
DirtInUrEye
Member
The amount of absolute shite that is mouthbreathed in this thread about the UK from yanks who have never and will never take a single step out of 'Murica is hilarious. A big nation of ignoramuses who finger wag about some authoritarian government twitter fallacy abroad, while at the same time embracing one that is very obviously happening on their own domestic soil.
Btw, the debit card thing works fine. I didn't have to do anything as I already pay for my games with a debit card on Steam.
Btw, the debit card thing works fine. I didn't have to do anything as I already pay for my games with a debit card on Steam.
Thesnipergecko
Member
I'm old enough. This should be enough proof. Same for Xbox.
Tams
Member
The main issue is the potential for overreach of the state, and given how the current government have acted in the just the last year, that does deeply concern more than it ever has.
Then there's just the general incompetence of the civil service. I have no confidence that eventually a 2FA USB or card wouldn't be left, with a laptop, on a train.
U wot m8?
I'll not get into the politics of it, but it is hardly selfish to want to live in a society where people trust each other don't need the state to act as our nanny. Perhaps you live in a what is now a low trust area of the country, but I don't.
nemiroff
Member
What a nanny state world we're entering.. Just parens patriae everything! Soon we won't be allowed to take care of ourselves and our children anymore, we'll finally become the ultimate programmed sheep.
Btw. What is the calculated increase in piracy as a result of this? /rhetorical question
Btw. What is the calculated increase in piracy as a result of this? /rhetorical question
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Major Insano
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Life goes on.