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[Shockwave_Fox]

Well I don't use credit cards so this means my Steam Deck is going to become a brick?


The age thing is more to do with mapping citizens online activity than it is with actually looking for age verification. The age part of this process is the Trojan horse.

Given the amount of civil unrest in the UK right now they are clearly trying to get ontop of things because actual chaos kicks into full effect. Looking at what's happening over at Indonesia right now. Clearly those in control at UK don't want same things happening when the next big currency print happens OR starts showing effect on those folks already struggling to cover costs of living and needing to go into debt to cover energy and food costs.

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.

 

[Xion_Stellar]

Well I don't use credit cards so this means my Steam Deck is going to become a brick?


The age thing is more to do with mapping citizens online activity than it is with actually looking for age verification. The age part of this process is the Trojan horse.

Given the amount of civil unrest in the UK right now they are clearly trying to get ontop of things because actual chaos kicks into full effect. Looking at what's happening over at Indonesia right now. Clearly those in control at UK don't want same things happening when the next big currency print happens OR starts showing effect on those folks already struggling to cover costs of living and needing to go into debt to cover energy and food costs.

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]

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]

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.

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.

 

[winjer]

The UK is getting so authoritarian, that even North Korea will start taking inspiration from it.

 

[Renoir]

good. let their laws apply to their citizenry.
I dont know why we need to be affected by this .

 

[Duchess]

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..!

 

[Herr Edgy]

Hey, at least they have access. Germany has no access to 'mature games' (sexual games) at all.

 

[Hudo]

Important to note that government-imposed age verification for mature games is prohibited by the First Amendment in the United States.

Also important to note that the current US government doesn't give a flying fuck about whether shit it prohibited or not.

 

[CuteFaceJay]

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..!

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]

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.

 

[Fbh]

Finally the hordes of kids buying hentai games on steam can be kept safe and return to spending their time on more age appropriate activities like getting groomed by predators on Roblox

 

[th4tguy]

Pc

Also important to note that the current US government doesn't give a flying fuck about whether shit it prohibited or not.

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]

The UK is getting so authoritarian, that even North Korea will start taking inspiration from it.

Its coming for everyone in the west...dont worry! UK just seems to be the test balloon right now.

 

[Duchess]

If that's the case then my Steam Deck might be RIP. Ever since 2008 credit crisis I refused to get a credit card.

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]

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

"a bug", what a dumb excuse xDDD

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?

 

[T-Cake]

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.

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]

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.

That sounds like it's a good thing you can't get one anymore.

 

[ecosse_011172]

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).

 

[Tams]

which are normal in other European countries.

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]

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.

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]

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.

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.

What's wrong with ID cards? How do they negatively effect the European people who use them?

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.

 

[ecosse_011172]

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]

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.

 

[Thesnipergecko]

I'm old enough. This should be enough proof. Same for Xbox.

 

[Tams]

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.

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.

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.

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]

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

 

[Major Insano]

Life goes on.