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Steam now requires age verification in the UK for mature game pages (www.videogameschronicle.com)
submitted 6 days ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] towerful@programming.dev 23 points 6 days ago (2 children)

So, being born on 1st January 1970 won't work anymore?
What if I've had my steam account for more than 18 years?

OSA is a pile of shit

[–] 100@fedia.io 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

youd think paying with your card is verification enough

[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

It is, per the article

[–] fuckgod@feddit.online 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Amateur.

1-Jan-69 was right there.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 6 points 5 days ago

1st of Jan 1970 is the Unix Epoch, ie 0 seconds.

So, yeh... The funny sex number joke is there, but doesn't work as a standalone joke. So, has to be 1st Jan 1970

[–] Localhorst86@feddit.org 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Huh? Why didn't they do this for German users? German law requires age verification for adult content, and valve didn't want to implement a system...

[–] Poopfeast420@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Here it's apparently done just through a credit card. Does this meet the standards for the German law, I never really looked this stuff up. Dunno if that's enough for the verification or if there are maybe some stipulations, especially with regard to the GDPR.

It would be great if Valve did something for German users though, so I finally gift my friends shitty porn games again.

[–] Localhorst86@feddit.org 1 points 5 days ago

Here it’s apparently done just through a credit card. Does this meet the standards for the German law [...]

it seems not. Providing anonymous verification data like Credit card information or even just the id number of the personal identification card is not enough, the provider has to verify the actual identity of the person. I guess that's quite a bigger hurdle to overcome, so probably fair for valve to not bother.

[–] SuperDuperKitten@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 days ago

My only guess is that there wasn't much outcry for Valve to do it for Germany compare the UK's Online Safety Act