Any chance of having age verification in the new account upgrade?

[Reboy]

I'm all for anyone being able to play but I'd love to have the option to play in an adult only lobby.

Tending to find a lot of young players will tell each other who the Imposter is or give up their team mate when they're ejected. Older players seem to be a bit more respectful of the rules. Also - I feel a bit uncomfortable when some clearly younger players make 'adult' comments to each other.

I like playing public lobbies but would love a way to limit ages in some areas - maybe make an under 18s only and an over 18s only area?

[bekenegen cheese]

how are you going to check someones age

[woodstock_daughter22]

i wish that was a thing and the only solution so far is maybe if u create a game just change the name to like 18 and up or something. which yes i know may not work all the time but its a start.

[Rastaba]

While I do have no issues with the idea of allowing the option of 'gating' lobbies by age in the HOPE of such, that has less to do with the person's AGE as their MATURITY as I can confirm adults can behave in just as immature and spiteful manners which ruin the experience. While it MAY work to an extent, I do feel it needs to be said that merely expecting adults to act like adults unfortunately doesn't always work out.

[Fighter of the Nightman]

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I'm all for anyone being able to play but I'd love to have the option to play in an adult only lobby.

Tending to find a lot of young players will tell each other who the Imposter is or give up their team mate when they're ejected. Older players seem to be a bit more respectful of the rules. Also - I feel a bit uncomfortable when some clearly younger players make 'adult' comments to each other.

I like playing public lobbies but would love a way to limit ages in some areas - maybe make an under 18s only and an over 18s only area?

Just use common sense and join a discord server. There's a bunch of them. Then you can pick who you play with. SUPER EASY SOLUTION

[Reboy]

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Ursprungligen skrivet av Reboy:

I'm all for anyone being able to play but I'd love to have the option to play in an adult only lobby.

Tending to find a lot of young players will tell each other who the Imposter is or give up their team mate when they're ejected. Older players seem to be a bit more respectful of the rules. Also - I feel a bit uncomfortable when some clearly younger players make 'adult' comments to each other.

I like playing public lobbies but would love a way to limit ages in some areas - maybe make an under 18s only and an over 18s only area?

Just use common sense and join a discord server. There's a bunch of them. Then you can pick who you play with. SUPER EASY SOLUTION

Thank you for explaining the SUPER EASY SOLUTION that I'm already doing.

But sometimes you don't have all 10 Players available so you open it up. I'd like to have the options to limit the game as it's more commonly younger players who are on the phone and tell each other who the Imposter is.

Other games allow you to verify using a credit card - they take out £1/$1 and put it straight back in to verify and I'm pretty sure 18+ are the only people who can have one... If you don't have one then no problem, stick to the general servers, not the adults only games.

Seems simple to me.

[Noelle]

I'm pretty sure teenagers can have debit cards, but okay.

No need for an age verification, anyway. Among Us is not a porn game, and you shouldn't be allowing thirsty neckbeards to run free anyway.

[Reboy]

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I'm pretty sure teenagers can have debit cards, but okay.

No need for an age verification, anyway. Among Us is not a porn game, and you shouldn't be allowing thirsty neckbeards to run free anyway.

I said credit cards which are 18+. 16+ at a push.

Neck beards? What are you talking about? No it’s not porn but the point of this thread is adults only games - aka 18+

[DragonTurtleMax]

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I said credit cards which are 18+. 16+ at a push.

I'm pretty sure a lot of people get suspicious when a game asks for credit card info.

[SemataryLover2005]

you know people can lie about their age right?, especially in some game

[RedRyder18]

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you know people can lie about their age right?, especially in some game

But why would someone lie on the internet?

[eightiesboi]

@Reboy, the problem with your suggestion is that Among Us isn't an "Adults Only" game. While I generally think options are good, as I understand it, you want a pretty strong method of age verification (by "strong", I mean more than simply making an unverified claim, like selecting a birthdate from a dropdown box). You want age verification because you want to be able to exclude players younger than 18 (or, as you say "16+ at a push) from your game. You've given two general reasons for this: 1. You stated without providing evidence that players younger than 18 are more likely to cheat; and 2. You are uncomfortable with "clearly younger players make 'adult' comments to each other". This is my understanding so far; please let me know if I've made any substantive errors. Let's look at these points.

(Oh, and I am assuming you are in the US or UK by virtual of the currencies you referenced.)

First, to the type of age verification that you propose; if my understanding is correct and you really want more than just a declaration by a player that they are 18 or older, what you actually need is identity verification. Since the game currently does not require you to have an account to play (remember, you can play Among Us for free on iOs and Android), a simple credit card transaction won't work. Anyone could use any card (like their parents) and it would work fine. Of course, you could suggest that we use the system financial institutions use where a series of specific amounts are posted to your card, and you have to input those same amounts into a verification prompt before you are "verified". This would bar casual access to a card, but since there is no account registration, every person desiring access to an "Adults Only" room would have to do this each and every time; all to access a $5 (or free) casual game.

However, would this even work to do what you want it to do; that is, verify age. No. First, as @Natalie points out, teens can have debit cards. And while you did specify credit cards, in 2013 a judgment against Playboy in the UK was effectively nullified when it was determined that payment processing services frequently fail to differentiate between debit and credit cards (https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/archive/downloads/publications/Effective-Age-Verification-Techniques.pdf). And you may also be unaware that in the US and throughout Europe, the minimum age at which someone can get a credit (not debit) card varies; especially if the legal minor has parental consent. (https://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2017/mapping-minimum-age-requirements/credit-card). Credit cards as age verification therefore aren't likely to be effective. Similarly, without an account registry maintained by the dev or a third party, any type of ID verification for the purpose of age exclusion would have to be initiated on every log in, and would require at minimum a cross database search to verify the users age, made more problematic by the global nature of the game (see the Oxford report, above).

But is this all even necessary? You stated that in your experience, teens are more likely to cheat by talking on the phone. You did not provide any evidence for this, nor is there any study that I am aware of that supports your supposition. Your anecdotal experience notwithstanding, it seems that excluding an entire group of people based on an alleged and unproven propensity to deviance is unethical and legally questionable. You've also stated that you are uncomfortable with "clearly younger players" 'adult' comments. I won't speculate as to how you know that they are "clearly younger" (younger than what?), but there are already methods for kicking specific individuals and banning them from games for speech that makes other players uncomfortable. Instead of banning all "clearly younger players" preemptively in order to bar the possibility that they may behave in a way you might find objectionable, it again seems more reasonable to remove only those individuals who are behaving badly.

Despite the volume of this response, I hear you. It can be frustrating when someone creates a negative atmosphere (or uncomfortable, or inappropriate), and I am not immune to a commonsense claim that kids may be, on the whole, less mature than adults. However, as @Ray - Mighty No. 0 said, age and maturity are not the same thing. I would suggest that, if this is important to you, you make it clear that your games are only open to 18+ and that anyone who states they are not will be kicked immediately. Otherwise, I suggest enjoying the experience and be open to the possibility that the amazingly mature and bright random that joined your game might be a 14 yo.

[Timi]

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I said credit cards which are 18+. 16+ at a push.

Not everyone who is 18+ has a credit card, tho.

[MancakeBR]

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Ursprungligen skrivet av Natalie:

I'm pretty sure teenagers can have debit cards, but okay.

No need for an age verification, anyway. Among Us is not a porn game, and you shouldn't be allowing thirsty neckbeards to run free anyway.

I said credit cards which are 18+. 16+ at a push.

Neck beards? What are you talking about? No it’s not porn but the point of this thread is adults only games - aka 18+

Why would I EVER provide any credit card info to ANYONE? Sorry, I don't trust ANY company especially when they sell your information. Get out of here with your ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[alex_ionut1976]

Where do i sign to give my adress, phone number, all my passwords and the other personal informations about me?
No person with a brain will give away their personal information just to play a game.

[ඞ]

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Ursprungligen skrivet av Reboy:

I said credit cards which are 18+. 16+ at a push.

Neck beards? What are you talking about? No it’s not porn but the point of this thread is adults only games - aka 18+

Why would I EVER provide any credit card info to ANYONE? Sorry, I don't trust ANY company especially when they sell your information. Get out of here with your ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

exactly, its like those discord servers that try to verify peoples age by forcing you to screenshot your legal ID with everything blurred out except date of birth and gender, plus having a piece of paper next to it with your discord name and the servers name, its shady ♥♥♥♥,especially if its credit card information.