is it against rules or ilegal for kid to play 18+age games

[Vr_hot_potato]

is it against rules or ilegal for kid to play 18+age games

[ReBoot]

You are legally commiting fraud when you're faking your age. So to stay clear, it's up to your parents to buy you that 18+ game.

[✨Saint✨]

If a kid is playing a game they should not be on, it is the responsibility of their parents.
On the internet, where 18+ games are sold (digitally) to pretty much anyone, it is extremely difficult to prevent kids from buying/playing those games.

[Lithurge]

In the UK it's illegal for a retailer to sell age restricted products, e.g. games to anyone underage. The underage person who bought the game is not liable to prosecution.

That's why Steam asks people to confirm their birth date. As UK law stands currently this is enough to cover them so if somebody lies about their age they won't be prosecuted.

Your country may have different laws in place so you'd really need to research those yourself.

Edit doing some more reading the guidance states asking people to confirm DOB is not technically considered stringent enough for online sales, but most retailers only apply more stringent methods based on product type e.g. Amazon will happily sell 18 rated games or films without checking but alcohol requires physical proof of age on delivery.

[Inventory.org]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

You are legally commiting fraud when you're faking your age. So to stay clear, it's up to your parents to buy you that 18+ game.

what? Your parents cant see what ur doing 24/7 wtf do you think, ur parents are robots? If you decide to play ilegall games, thats ur fault not ur parents.

[John]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.