Age Verification

[Heloise]

It would be great if you implemented age verification and created a little box people can check to have a lobby be 18+. There are way too many kids joining adult lobbies and trolling in this game, which ruins the experience. Could you please consider this option? It will still allow kids to play, but they just play in kid lobbies. Thanks

[herbert]

Originally posted by Heloise:

It would be great if you implemented age verification and created a little box people can check to have a lobby be 18+. There are way too many kids joining adult lobbies and trolling in this game, which ruins the experience. Could you please consider this option? It will still allow kids to play, but they just play in kid lobbies. Thanks

we can, but if you think through the issue there are more factors that are relevant
as with other adult content on the internet, it is trivially easy for someone younger than 18 to check that box off. so ultimately the way to properly do it would be for us to ask players to submit identification (including minors), and that's a course of action we aren't ready to do
we also can't, as a rule, just take every player's word that any other player is under or over 18. beyond players just making accusations of one another in bad faith, there's really no reliable measure here. we aren't going to restrict a player's ability to play because someone thought their voice was high pitched, for example

Hopefully, some of this can shed some light as to why we wouldn't just set a checkbox

[shacram]

Originally posted by herbert:

to ask players to submit identification (including minors), and that's a course of action we aren't ready to do

I'm sure if you did that you couldn't operate in many countries.