Store Age Check Disable?

[KEMSAT]

Is there a way to have the store stop asking me for my birthday? I'm 36 & the only one that uses my computer, so I'd love to be able to turn that off.

Thanks in advance.

[TGC> The Games Collector]

Actual age verification would make these age gates obsolete.

But don't expect to see that any time soon.

[HikariLight]

Origineel geplaatst door TGC> The Games Collector:

Actual age verification would make these age gates obsolete.

But don't expect to see that any time soon.

Since there are different ID databases per country and the USA alone has 50 different ID databases, makes that kinda hard.
Also a privately owned company like Valve has no right to have access to a database that has such private info.

[Brian9824]

Origineel geplaatst door TGC> The Games Collector:

Actual age verification would make these age gates obsolete.

But don't expect to see that any time soon.

Would still need to be per session though, because age verification on an account doesn't tell you who is using the account.

[HikariLight]

Origineel geplaatst door SKARDAVNELNATE:

Origineel geplaatst door Spawn of Totoro:

If game rating boards require a game to have an age gate

You aren't accessing the game. You are accessing details about the game that there is no reason to age gate. If there is content they can't show because it's from the game then display it separately from the details they can show.

Then just use a search engine like Google and search the system requirements for the game.
Otherwise you need to do the age gate on Steam as the requirements are on the games store page and that page has to be age gated if it meets the requirements for the gate.

[Amaterasu]

I for one would not want Steam to have access to my ID. These age gates are slightly annoying, but not a problem. I just have to click a single button.

[Serendipity]

How do they know that the date you put in is true?

[mldb88]

Origineel geplaatst door Serendipity:

How do they know that the date you put in is true?

They don’t, but requiring you to enter it then puts the liability on the user since they falsified their age and absolves Valve of any legal liability.

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Origineel geplaatst door mldb88:

Origineel geplaatst door Serendipity:

How do they know that the date you put in is true?

They don’t, but requiring you to enter it then puts the liability on the user since they falsified their age and absolves Valve of any legal liability.

Yet on the flip side they leave much of the community unmoderated. No age gate in front of Off Topic and it's full of nasty stuff.

[mldb88]

Origineel geplaatst door Crashed:

Origineel geplaatst door mldb88:

They don’t, but requiring you to enter it then puts the liability on the user since they falsified their age and absolves Valve of any legal liability.

Yet on the flip side they leave much of the community unmoderated. No age gate in front of Off Topic and it's full of nasty stuff.

The difference is games fall under the purview of rating agencies (ESRB for example in the US), and have certain legislature tied to them. Also discussion board for games that are age gated are also age gated. As for off topic, posting things that would usually require age gating (actual sexual content, extreme violence and gore, etc) would be just begging for a ban and the post to be immediately taken down, and also is a result of the user breaking the rules of the boards and not just the base content of a game being advertised. It’s two entirely different things that can’t be compared to one another.

People being ass hats on a message board alone isn’t enough to necessitate age gating.

[SKARDAVNELNATE]

Origineel geplaatst door HikariLight:

Otherwise you need to do the age gate on Steam as the requirements are on the games store page and that page has to be age gated if it meets the requirements for the gate.

This is what I'm saying. If the store pages don't have anything on them that any other page that isn't age gated has, then it doesn't meet the requirements for the gate.

[76561198407601200]

Origineel geplaatst door SKARDAVNELNATE:

Origineel geplaatst door Spawn of Totoro:

If game rating boards require a game to have an age gate

You aren't accessing the game. You are accessing details about the game that there is no reason to age gate. If there is content they can't show because it's from the game then display it separately from the details they can show.

You are accessing the game page, the details about the game are irrelevant. Until you can prove otherwise you'll simply just be considered incorrect.

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Origineel geplaatst door mldb88:

Origineel geplaatst door Crashed:

Yet on the flip side they leave much of the community unmoderated. No age gate in front of Off Topic and it's full of nasty stuff.

The difference is games fall under the purview of rating agencies (ESRB for example in the US), and have certain legislature tied to them. Also discussion board for games that are age gated are also age gated. As for off topic, posting things that would usually require age gating (actual sexual content, extreme violence and gore, etc) would be just begging for a ban and the post to be immediately taken down, and also is a result of the user breaking the rules of the boards and not just the base content of a game being advertised. It’s two entirely different things that can’t be compared to one another.

People being ass hats on a message board alone isn’t enough to necessitate age gating.

Not talking about harmless trolling but the harmful amount of hate and misinformation in the Community that causes real-life harm.

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Origineel geplaatst door Sun Goddess:

I for one would not want Steam to have access to my ID. These age gates are slightly annoying, but not a problem. I just have to click a single button.

There's a way to bypass it for up to 400 days (was longer before Chromium component updated) by starting Steam in -dev mode and using Chromium Dev Tools to manipulate the birthtime cookie's content and expiry.

[SKARDAVNELNATE]

Origineel geplaatst door The Living Tribunal:

You are accessing the game page, the details about the game are irrelevant.

They should be very relevant. Maybe the store pages need to have a rating that is separate from how the game is rated.

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Origineel geplaatst door SKARDAVNELNATE:

Origineel geplaatst door The Living Tribunal:

You are accessing the game page, the details about the game are irrelevant.

They should be very relevant. Maybe the store pages need to have a rating that is separate from how the game is rated.

Publishers however take the easy way out, and having a "sanitized" store page could also be considered misleading.