Steam is now complying with the Online Safety Act
  • ook@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    9·
    15 days ago

    That is actually a relatively mild solution that makes the age verification almost bearable…

    …which is terrible, because age verification as a whole is a terrible concept. Would have been nice if a big player like Steam is working against it, but I also never expected they would, they are commercial after all.

    • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      71·
      15 days ago

      I don’t agree that it’s mild. They explicitly will require credit cards as per the law, debit cards won’t work for it, which is a huge deal.

      • seralth@lemmy.worldEnglish
        32·
        15 days ago

        I mean children can get debit cards. Having a bank account has never and should never be a bench mark of age.

        Heaven sake I had a bank account at 12 years old.

        Unsecured Credit should realistically be straight up illegal to give to children.

        So no it’s not a huge deal at fucking all. Unless you have a sizeable amount of financial literacy. And don’t understand what a credit vs debit card actually mean.

        At best you can make a weak argument that having to get a credit card is annoying. But 300-500 dollar low limit free credit card with no requirements or annual fees. Is available basically from every bank in the world.

        Get it and throw it in a draw to rot for literally forever. Hell you can even cut it in half it and freeze the card. Making it a zero security risk.

        Then you have a unusable, frozen account. That exists purely as proof that your old enough to have a credit card. Even if it’s stolen it’s unusable and still perfectly safe.

        So you don’t even have to care about data breaches beyond what you currently do.

        • Master@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          12 days ago

          Not everyone can get a credit card. I have no debt at all and own two cars and my house outright. I’ve got a job that pays well and money in the bank. Tried to get a credit card and was turned down 5 times because i failed the credit check… Since I dont really have a credit score.

          I dont need a credit card though. Only wanted it for a trip I was taking for the travel points. So I said fuck it and continued my life. But requiring a credit card which people like me cant get for this is bullshit.

    • thingsiplay@beehaw.orgEnglish
      5·
      15 days ago

      How do you expect Steam to work against this? This is not a decision that Valve has any word on, its a decision by government. The only thing that Valve could do here is, remove those games for that country. But that is not a solution. If anything, the citizens of the UK should do something, if possible.