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PlayStation To Require Age Verification For Certain Online Features (insider-gaming.com)

submitted 6 months ago by cybercafe@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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[–] garretble@lemmy.world 69 points 6 months ago* (6 children)

The funny thing is I’ve had the same PSN account since the PS3, and it’s old enough to vote.

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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 26 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Platforms should always have that be the first check before falling back to multiple other data sources.

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[–] absquatulate@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago (3 children)

And miss grabbing that juicy data of yours? Thats like leaving money on the table! Think of the shareholders, man.

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[–] Goodeye8@piefed.social 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Do people really put their date of birth in those things? I just scroll the year until I'm clearly past 18 years and that's when I'm born, January first 19-whogivesafuck. Quite possibly the best date to be born on.

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[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago

Pick a date in history you like and use it. That way if it ever asks you to verify, you at least know dob.

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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Some companies already use this heuristic to skip asking.

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[–] SwifferWetjet@thelemmy.club 7 points 6 months ago

I ditched mine when I was I think 13. Rip fruitsalad01 lol

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[–] simple@piefed.social 31 points 6 months ago (6 children)

feeling better and better for ditching PS for the past few years

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[–] tinned_tomatoes@feddit.uk 15 points 6 months ago (4 children)

What're you going to do when Steam inevitably does this?

I'll laugh when it happens, given my Steam account is almost 23 years old.

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[–] I_Jedi@lemmy.today 21 points 6 months ago

If Steam becomes nonviable, then I will:

Download my backlog and look into cracking their reliance on Steam, if any.
Buy stuff on JAST, GOG, itch io, DLSite. Maybe DMM, Patreon, and Epic Games Store if I'm desperate.
Otherwise, well, you know how I'll get those games.

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[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Lutris

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[–] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works -5 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

Steam is turning into a sour grape for me - I complied with their restrictive and ancient method of age verification for UK accounts but I kind of want to migrate off them (they also charge high fees for devs, make it ridiculously difficult for new devs to exist, can singlehandedly destroy a studio and are very much monopolising the PC games industry so there's also ethics) - in favour of GOG. At least with them you own your games, and can (shock horror) even choose whether or not to update and patch that way to glitch out of the map, or duplicate those orbs for currency, or anything else that doesnt comply with the specific way you're allowed to play with the world they built.

Damn, sorry, I should file this away into my 'rants' folder

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[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 months ago

You can own your games on Steam too. It is entirely up to the publisher/developer. Cyperpunk 2077 for instance has no DRM on Steam and can be played without it.

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_big_list_of_DRM-free_games_on_Steam (not a complete list)

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[–] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago*

Xbox has had this for quite a while now (although I haven't checked if that's UK exclusive)

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[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago (4 children)

So when they say age verification, do they mean "show us your ID", or "enter your birthdate"?

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[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 8 points 6 months ago (1 child)

"enter your birthdate"

Technically would not that be age confirmation, not verification?

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 points 6 months ago

Also "attestation".

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 points 6 months ago

I think it's "show us your face", if the Yoti app is involved.

However, it looks like the only limit is communication, and I've no interest in being communicated with by anybody on PSN thank you very much.

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[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Show us your jimmy

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[–] Eggyhead@lemmy.world 27 points 6 months ago

I’m pretty sure my account itself is old enough to drink at this point.

[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 22 points 6 months ago (2 children)

~~Age Verification~~ Identity Verification

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

2030 - please insert your hand for blood testing to authorize online play.

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[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 months ago

Drink another Mountain Dew Verification Can to continue playing

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[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 33 points 6 months ago

Yikes. Could we not?

[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

Sony really eager to kill off communication on their system. Fucking bootlickers.

[–] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 months ago

I find it funny. How they put out the demand to dox yourself on the anniversary of the PSN hack.

[–] OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

And after all this still no mods :(

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Clarification for those of you who are also using an adblocker and get denied access to the site, this seems to be in the UK only and is yet another result of their age verification tear they’ve been on.

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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 6 months ago

not what the article says, the article specifically says:

The age-verification process will be implemented globally,

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[–] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'm using an adblocker and get in just fine, may be random or it may be the js blockers I've implemented. Here's my list of lists in case:

Note for any NordVPN users, their URIs are blocked by HaGeZi. Same list temporarily had Tidal's URIs blocked as well but it seems to have been fixed.

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[–] BC_viper@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

So hypothetically if it is a picture taking app. And a bunch of not of age boys send in photos of not their face then could they then phone in and report the company for said photos?