Steam now requiring age verification in the UK

loftie said:
So to those of you who have a credit card and have verified,

Can you then remove the payment method from your account afterwards and still view the blocked games? I never leave a payment method attached to my account.
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Well I dont have credit card so I only have debit card BUT I never purchased Steam games with debit cards after checked purchase history I bought all games with paypal.

I still able to viewed all blocked games and I never leave payment method attached to my account.
 
jonneymendoza said:
Will gta 6 require Id verification?
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Yes.

www.ladbible.com

Rockstar insider shares 'proof' of new GTA 6 age verification

Millions of younger gamers will be banned from playing GTA Online if the age assurances come into practice
www.ladbible.com www.ladbible.com

It will be enabled in future GTA V patch update soon probably in the next few months.

Rockstar Games Launcher will probably update with age verification checks to stop underaged kids purchase 18+ rated games like Red Dead Redemption, Red Dead Redemption 2, L.A. Noire and Max Payne 3.

All GTA games GTA, GTA: London 1961, GTA: London 1969, GTA 2, GTA: London 1969, GTA 3, GTA: Vice City, GTA: San Andreas, GTA IV, GTA IV: The Lost and Damned, GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony, GTA V, GTA Online and GTA VI are rated 18+ mature games.
 
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AthlonXP1800 said:
Well I dont have credit card so I only have debit card BUT I never purchased Steam games with debit cards after checked purchase history I bought all games with paypal.

I still able to viewed all blocked games and I never leave payment method attached to my account.
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the transaction will be linked to a debit card wont it? on the transaction for paypal. just go oi steam this transaction on this old account is that proof?

highly vested to hear if that works.
 
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Yrkoon said:
tell steam that with ur oldest ones :)
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Shhhhh I wont tell steam. :)

I found people reported problems on steam community that it asked them to verify age to viewed blocked games store page but after added credit card details it still blocked people to viewed games store page and games community. There are loads of people complained they still cant viewed blocked game store page to buy or pre-order latest rated 18+ games like Borderlands 4, Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater, Silent Hill f, Ninja Gaiden 4, The Outer Worlds 2, Cronos: The New Dawn etc.

1 steam user posted said he tested added fund to Steam Wallet worked to passed UK age verification.

steamcommunity.com

The UK age verification doesn't even work! Please Fix Valve! :: Steam Discussions

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Valve caved to UK online safety act, proof of valid UK credit card now required to access mature game communities? :: Steam Discussions

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AthlonXP1800 said:
Yes.

www.ladbible.com

Rockstar insider shares 'proof' of new GTA 6 age verification

Millions of younger gamers will be banned from playing GTA Online if the age assurances come into practice
www.ladbible.com www.ladbible.com

It will be enabled in future GTA V patch update soon probably in the next few months.

Rockstar Games Launcher will probably update with age verification checks to stop underaged kids purchase 18+ rated games like Red Dead Redemption, Red Dead Redemption 2, L.A. Noire and Max Payne 3.

All GTA games GTA, GTA: London 1961, GTA: London 1969, GTA 2, GTA: London 1969, GTA 3, GTA: Vice City, GTA: San Andreas, GTA IV, GTA IV: The Lost and Damned, GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony, GTA V, GTA Online and GTA VI are rated 18+ mature games.
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wow, mental really
 
AthlonXP1800 said:
Well I dont have credit card so I only have debit card BUT I never purchased Steam games with debit cards after checked purchase history I bought all games with paypal.

I still able to viewed all blocked games and I never leave payment method attached to my account.
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AthlonXP1800 said:
steamcommunity.com

PayPal & Age Verification :: Steam Discussions

steamcommunity.com steamcommunity.com

Ahh interesting! I guessed that why Steam accepted my paypal to verified my age. I didnt realised UK users must be 18 years old or over require to open paypal account until I read paypal user agreement.


So you could add fund to steam wallet or use paypal to buy rated 18+ games. :)
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Interesting. They've missed me then as my very first purchase on steam was for TF2 in 2007 and used Paypal.

I've then got 3 paypal purchases in 2020 and 2 in 2021.
 
xaldub said:
Unknown at this moment in time, but probably not as other "18" rated games ( that aren't sexually explicit ) don't require age verification ... yet.
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But then they are imposing it on seemingly random sites which don't contain any adult content. Like Wikipedia. Simply because people can post stuff???..

How long before they start saying online games need it just because it has chat.

Also since this government came in we have a law saying having non-PC conversations, even being overheard in a pub can end up with you being arrested. It's the start of the woke stasi tbh.
 
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Whilst I get the logic for "my account is older than 18 so why verify" if you stop and think about it, they have to because accounts can be passed to different people. I can't really fault Steam for this, they probably have to follow this rule even if it's only a problem in 1% of cases.

I was hit with this the other night and whilst I have a credit card, it's an AMEX which isn't supported for this for some reason, even though I do think Steam usually allow Amex for payments.

I can see more companies requiring this, and I'd prefer credit card validation than sending my id off to some 3rd parties. I think this could have been worse.

For this reason I ordered a different type of credit card via my Bank, 0% interest on purchases for 15 months, so I'll take advantage of that to put more capital into savings and earn interest instead.

Sucks if you have a poor credit history though or struggle to control your spending/can't get a credit card - this whole online safety act is just power/control gone mad because parents don't know how to lock down their kids devices or can't be bothered to learn how to do it.
 
alec said:
Since everybody is reporting 21 years of steam use, went and checked mine

I think I joined steam on day 1, my user id was 65k-something. So 22 years in two weeks :cool:
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Very early, the first steam account was created on September 10th 2003, so you were only 2 days later. Mine is November 18 2004, so a year or so later
 
HungryHippos said:
Whilst I get the logic for "my account is older than 18 so why verify" if you stop and think about it, they have to because accounts can be passed to different people. I can't really fault Steam for this, they probably have to follow this rule even if it's only a problem in 1% of cases.
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I can fault them for it. Email based age verification estimation is an example of "robust" age verification that Ofcom give. Emails can just as easily change hands over the years, arguably that's more likely as it's not attached to a specific thing (give away Steam account, games go with it, give away an email you no longer use, nothing) and yet that is perfectly fine to estimate age with. If that's fine, there is no reason account age shouldn't be fine as well. Other sites are also using account age to estimate as well. It's a non-exhaustive list given, so unless Ofcom are lying & it's only stuff on the list, it just has to be robust. Account age is just as robust as email age.

Passing accounts is also against the TOS, so officially it shouldn't be happening. If we want to talk about people doing things they should not, then all the age verification falls down the same way (X id doesn't prove it's that person using it).
 
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