The UK's online safety law adds unnecessary and often invasive stages in using multiple online services. The scope of this act continues to affect the various corners of the game world, and now users of a specific platform are now discovering that they must prove 18 years of age when they use their accounts 18 years ago.
Examples of STEAM and XBOX are asked to confirm their age before they are granted access to specific games and content, and some share meetings on social media. Christinatasty points out that on Twitter, STEAM is asking to prove 18 years of age.
The prompt appeared when I tried to access the already owned game, but it is not the worst.
Accounts that have existed for more than 18 years are not exempt from age verification.
The most meaningless part of STEAM's request to prove STEAM's 18 years of age is that the account itself was created 18 years ago. Christina shared a screenshot and showed that he has been using his account for 19 years. You may think that it is evidence that the person who owns the account is 18 years of age or older, but it is definitely not.
Xbox seems to be doing similar things. MIKE BROWN, a long XBOX owner, shared screenshots of the message they experienced and confirmed that they were asked to confirm 18 years of age over the new regulations raised by the UK's online safety law. This XBOX example claims that Brown has written an account 22 years ago, and it gets worse when the Xbox takes almost a long time when using the original console. In addition, since I still use the same account, I was a loyal Xbox customer in the fourth generation console.
There seems to be no solid and fast rules that require these age verification requirements. Not everyone meets them, and based on the answer to the steam related posts, I saw the prompt even in some other than the UK. It is not clear why it will happen and may be a small number of isolated events.
It is a relatively new development because STEAM seems to have started rolling out at the end of last week, and more and more users will satisfy the prompt. It comes from the back of the activist group. Collective Shout Lobby Payment Processors are pressing steam to remove content that is not suitable for children. Combined with the new regulations in the UK, it is becoming increasingly difficult to access and purchase a specific game on a specific platform.
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valve
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September 12, 2003
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N/a
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