▲ 353 ▼ Rockstar Games Plans Age Verification For GTA Online (rockstarintel.com) submitted 1 year ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world 77 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 116 points 1 year ago (5 children) They would lose likely 98% of their player base. permalink fedilink source hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 22 points 1 year ago (1 child) Seriously. Our school had a presentation by a guy about kids and computer usage. The gist of it was: Roblox bad, because of paedophiles. GTA good, because it furthers role playing. Basically the opposite of the age recommendations. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 1 year ago Welll...Depends on if you install mods I guess? permalink fedilink source parent [–] BeliefPropagator@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 1 year ago maybe the goal is instead to try to get ahead of regulation by implementing a system that is easily bypassed by most kids (like these video based age estimations). Then they can show this to the regulator and be like: "look were already doing everything we can, no need to actually put the regulation in place". permalink fedilink source parent [–] 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 11 points 1 year ago more like 99% permalink fedilink source parent [–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago $omething tells me that won't happen permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 22 points 1 year ago (1 child) Seriously. Our school had a presentation by a guy about kids and computer usage. The gist of it was: Roblox bad, because of paedophiles. GTA good, because it furthers role playing. Basically the opposite of the age recommendations. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 1 year ago Welll...Depends on if you install mods I guess? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 1 year ago Welll...Depends on if you install mods I guess? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BeliefPropagator@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 1 year ago maybe the goal is instead to try to get ahead of regulation by implementing a system that is easily bypassed by most kids (like these video based age estimations). Then they can show this to the regulator and be like: "look were already doing everything we can, no need to actually put the regulation in place". permalink fedilink source parent
[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago $omething tells me that won't happen permalink fedilink source parent