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18+ in one place might not be 18+ in another first off.
Second, the adult stuff is off by default as mentioned already.
Third, if you are a parent then you should be watching everything your kid does online right up to the point they turn 18. There are already settings your can use to lock up your kids account.
If you don't use those options, thats on you.
Now for the bigger point... there are ZERO ways for Valve to know who is an adult and who isn't. No they can't look at IDs because photo editing software, fake IDs, using someone elses ID and a bunch of other stuff.
Valve can not Verify the ID because no government in their right mind would EVER allow a gaming company access to their very private database.
In my country there is no national ID, not everyone has a passport and every province has a different license and ID. So Valve would have to talk to at least 10 provinces and 3 territories and thats for 1 country.
Also there are 25+ million active accounts a day. 130+ million active every month. Over 1 billion accounts in total. Do you really think they are going to take more than 3 seconds to look at an image of and ID? At 3 seconds each thats over 868 straight days just to look at 25+ million active accounts. Even if you divide that up among 100 people thats still days of just looking at the image. That doesn't include all the other stuff that would be needed, so lets say it takes at least 1 minute for each account to be looked at.
Thats just for the 25 million active... but again no way to actually verify that the ID you are looking is legit, or even belongs to the person behind the keyboard that sent it.
This is just a bad idea the first 100+ times its been suggested, its a bad idea now and it will be a bad idea the next 1000+ times its suggested. Would be nice if people used the search feature first before posting up their ideas and read all the other threads explaining why their idea is broken from the start.
For content outside of Steam is a very difficult thing though. As non-Steam content isn't really categorized.
The problem is that Steam is not dividing the two successfully. Even with Adult Content un-ticked I still get some recommendations and so on for adult games. Also, point shop items disappear if they belong to adult games even though they are not themselves adult. I really do think that Valve made a big mistake trying to introduce adult stuff in to Steam. There should be a clear boundary between the two and there isn't.
Then again steam already has some differences in it's store, from what it recommends/pushes, to hiding new content behind most popular recent titles. Where the wild west of all new releases are pushed into the backend anyways, which can hurt some game devs unless they have some coverage or rep.
first point you are right, 2nd and 3rd is not what this topic is about?
yeah some of this, also we often see with the graphic claims for images, for a bit random titles and only works maybe 30-50% of the time (if not counting random small releases). To the time it might be recognized as "adult" or "graphic". Like I can go on an sexual content title that shows nothing and is "hidden as graphic" while other sexual content titles that show full sex scenes, don't on the steam page. (nvm the community pictures or videos of said content).
I could only assume the money steam/valve makes on this sexual content, as it is a decent market and why some of these titles are "mass produced" or farmed. As to why they have some mixed opinions on such content on their platform, so long it doesn't include real life actors or content, etc. I would guess while countries having their own rules to go by.
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https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/3458220484818950809/#c3458220484820412102
OH THINK OF THE CHILDREN
Children are not fragile little glass butterflies
If there were children and their parents don't secure their account and let their kids toggle on a default checkbox to show that stuff, then creating a new store won't work either.
Its easy to block adult content if you set up your kids account, if you don't then no complaining as they did it themselves and they could see far worse going to google if your not securing your PC...