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Age laws apply to many areas in life it's not new.
What is the point of this comment?
Stuff like that is how you got the
My particular beef with this way of IDing is it’s going to encourage people; especially young adults without a credit score or vulnerable adults into getting a terible high APR credit card,eg capital one in order to gain ID on steam and that will be setting very dodgy ground for some people.
The UK has had a good basic ID card for some years now called the PASS / citizen 18+ card. This is used by the entire country inc the police and SIA, entertainment venues from lands end to John o groats, and shops for when you get IDd for energy drink.
I have one of these for nightclubs as some of them like the warehouse project; especially on nights it’s a rowdy crowd they will ID absolutely everyone.
The other good reason this pass should be offered as a choice to UK folks is it’s more accessible,you don’t need a drivers licence or passport to get it-2 things which many people in the UK still do not own.
The UK got the law because someone wanted a reason to remove anomity from the internet in the UK and decided 'for the children' was the perfect excuse. It's a fundamentally broken law that is designed to fail to increase the censorship so Big Brother can watch over its citizens. It's a disgusting law that the Government will not allow to fail, because the children are simply not the point, and censorship in my country will get to the level of Germany in the 1940s.
That's a lot of words to hijack my issue and make it your own. Also, I don't know how you read things, but the main point, that's even in the title, is that the goal is for alternative age verification methods. The hentai games are the only reason I care about steam, and so the reason I'm annoyed at this.
The short answer is, don't hold your breath. A few years Germany passed a similar requiring age verification. One difference from the UK law, credit cards aren't valid age verification. Germans have no age verification options on Steam, they're all adult content restricted.
The only reason the UK has any options is Valve already accepts credit cards. If the UK law were to change and credit cards weren't valid for age verification, you should probably expect to be in the same boat as the Germans.
Just to give you perspective on the harsh reality. I'm not celebrating it, but the reality seems pretty obvious to me.
Also Valve is not responsible for parents not securing their accounts, or letting their children run amok. It's a lame argument.
It's not the age law that's the problem, it's Valves verification requirements, they chose credit card as verification because those systems were already in-place, but not everyone in the UK has a credit card.
Not having a credit card isn't Valve's problem. Valve is only responsible for meeting the requirements of the law. And one way to do that is to offer no age verification options. And the UK would have none if credit cards weren't an option. And Valve would be in compliance with the law.
And it's not even a problem. If you want to buy age restricted games, go buy them from another store that supports the age verification requirements you approve of. Not much of a problem when you can just go to the next store.