For some of you who might not be aware, Steam as of this very day has added a new option for Age Assurance, that being age account being at least nine years old and has had a consistent email address or billing information.

There will also be future verification methods down the line as well, so looks like things are heading in a good direction. Now if only our friends in the UK got such an option for account age as well.

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[–] 5 points 5 days ago

Nice! I can confirm that my account has been verified automatically and I'm able to just navigate straight to the store pages for The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077. Am I remembering correctly that we used to get a dropdown age gate on those pages? If so, things are now smoother than they used to be. Still, they could have implemented this method to begin with.

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    [–] 16 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    I have the 21 years of service badge on my account, those cunts tried to get me to age verify to view a store page recently!

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  • [–] 5 points 5 days ago

    The reply I got when I whinged at them about a similar complaint was:

    I understand your concern with this. For now, verification based on credit card ownership is the only path Steam currently offers for age verification under the Age-Restricted Material Online Safety Codes.

    We are continuing to gather data on potential pain points for users and will take your feedback back to the team. We are sorry for the inconvenience this requirement is causing for you.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Did it verify with today's change? (I think it was today, that when I started seeing the new page.) I'd trigger the age verify every so often in case my debit card finally worked.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 child)

    Hot take. It shouldn't matter if your account is old, and it's a good thing that people get frustrated by it, because it shouldn't be a thing and public unpopularity is the only way to make it not a thing. Don't be content with a bad thing just because you're exempt.

    Yet again, Australia is the testing ground for anti-privacy authoritarian legislation.

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  • And most Australians are far too apathetic and ignorant to understand or care about the danger.

    It took no real effort at all to set the framing as not if, but how to implement the social media ban, when "if" should never have been a question.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago* (1 child)

    Why do ppl still simp for steam and valve so much? They bend the knee to oppressive internet just like everyone else.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 days ago

    It was the deal breaker for me. The end of my 21 year relationship with steam. I don't give a shit that they've let me through because of the account age, the fact that they locked it down briefly and may do so again in the future means they can fuck right off

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  • Great, now they want to know how old the cars are?

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  • We need a Big Walk regular meetup. Someone get it going please.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago

    I think I may have been cleared because I sent them the precursor to a consumer protections complaint because they wouldn't refund a glitchy game. The account is not that old.

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