age verification

[Icedfate]

I find it really anoying that EVERY single time I look at an age restricted game, I have to enter my birthdate

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isn't there some way to "save" it so that it remembers that I'm verified?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Not on Steam, no.

Get used to it.

And use the search function next time. Plenty of threads that would have told you the same thing I just did.

[Icedfate]

well, I'm sorry that I forced you to take time out of your precious day to answer such a stupid question.

I am a horrible person.
I have dishonored myself.
I have dishonored my family.
I must commit Seppuku now.

I hope you are proud of yourself.

[Paratech2008]

A bunch of morons think that making an age gate will keep the public happy because kids aren't going to lie about their age on Steam and somehow making 50 year old people like me enter my birthdate every session amounts to something.

[Tito Shivan]

Originally posted by Paratech2008:

A bunch of morons think that making an age gate will keep the public happy because kids aren't going to lie about their age on Steam and somehow making 50 year old people like me enter my birthdate every session amounts to something.

You just called the whole gaming industry a bunch of morons.

The age gate isn't there to deter people from entering but to put the liability in the individual lying to get into.

Just like the reason why bags with nuts warn about containing nuts.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Tito Shivan:

Just like the reason why bags with nuts warn about containing nuts.

I hate looking at my Skippy jar because of that.

[FEZ. TF7]

yeah i find it annoying aswel, just change the year to 1999 and don't bother with the rest, it makes it less annoying and less of a hassle doing it that way

[O6 Lima]

Originally posted by Tito Shivan:

Originally posted by Paratech2008:

A bunch of morons think that making an age gate will keep the public happy because kids aren't going to lie about their age on Steam and somehow making 50 year old people like me enter my birthdate every session amounts to something.

You just called the whole gaming industry a bunch of morons.

The age gate isn't there to deter people from entering but to put the liability in the individual lying to get into.

Just like the reason why bags with nuts warn about containing nuts.

boohoo :( he stated his opinion

[Icedfate]

the point I was making wasn't a complaint about the age gate, but the fact that Steam doesn't keep it on file.
if I have a username and a password and I'm registered with Steam, it should be assumed by Steam that every time I log in, I am the SAME person logging in.

if I verified my age once, that I am old enough to look at the content, then barring some sort of 4th dimensional broken universe time anomaly, then I won't suddenly become younger.

if I verified it once, that should be enough.

why do I have to verify it EVERY time?


p.s.

this wasn't meant to be a "question" to force the community to answer.

perhaps this is the wrong place to put this.

I opned the thread in the hopes providing feedback to Steam in the hopes that someone who matters might see it and pass it on to the people that make the decisions

because it IS stupid to make the same person who verified their age once, twice, a thousand times, verify their age again and again.

[Glimmer]

If it was a suggestion, then it should have been in the Ideas/Suggestions forum
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/

It's very unlikely to be heeded though. The ESRB decided that the age gate cookie should expire at the end of the session and Valve's going along with that ruling.

Originally posted by Femaiden:

if I verified my age once, that I am old enough to look at the content, then barring some sort of 4th dimensional broken universe time anomaly, then I won't suddenly become younger.

Doesn't need to be a break in the 4th dimension, it can be as easy as your younger brother sitting down at your computer tomorrow when you have Steam set to auto-login.

[Icedfate]

okay then. . .it isn't steam making the decision, it's the esrb.

and yeah, I was exaggerating there. I know that a younger sibling could sit down, but I don't have a younger sibling and even if I did, there's nothing stopping that younger sibling from just putting in any age they want anyway.
there's absolutely nothing stopping anyone from lying about their age so the whole procedure is completely pointless.

[Ri0Rdian]

ESRB is not oficially sancioned for anything so dunno why Valve has to care. Only if they decided they want to...

[Winged One]

seriously, why does this bother people so much? it takes far more effort to openly complain about it once than doing the one mouse scroll up it takes to bypass it a dozen times


that screen will litterally be there for the 1.5 seconds it takes to get past it.. this is really a non-issue imho

[cinedine]

Originally posted by Ri0Rdian:

ESRB is not oficially sancioned for anything so dunno why Valve has to care. Only if they decided they want to...

They are sacntioned by their members. That's the point of a self-regulating body. They could decide to not care and no longer offer games of other members. And in turn those can decide to not care and boycot the system.
And then you get to the point where lawmakers decide there is no oversight, so they will provide some.

... sometimes I think people have the impression that Valve deliberately wants to piss them off.

[Sharkfood]

This IS new behavior though. The Steam Client always remembered my DOB but now it doesn't.

In BPM, it's still working correctly where my last entered DOB is retained while surfing the store. So only the normal client/non-BPM does it ask me over and over for the age check in the store.

[Glimmer]

Originally posted by Sharkfood:

This IS new behavior though. The Steam Client always remembered my DOB but now it doesn't.

Depends on your definition of New. The change was introduced in February. No one is disputing that this change happened.

In BPM, it's still working correctly where my last entered DOB is retained while surfing the store. So only the normal client/non-BPM does it ask me over and over for the age check in the store.

I've heard that there were issues with the age gate in Big Picture, possibly this change was delayed/rolled back in response to that.