Parents will just have their kids play on their accounts. This only hurts the average person who now needs to worry about who has that information and how it’s secured.
Comment on Rockstar Games Plans Age Verification For GTA Online
Matriks404@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The thing with age verification is that I don’t think it’s a bad thing if done securely, but still it still makes me sad, because Internet will never be the same with it. In the end it will be only few big websites who can afford to care about Internet regulation.
Maybe it’s time to switch to Gemini protocol, they are not going to regulate that!
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
bless@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
If that’s true its going to be funny when the account gets banned because of something kiddo did
cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
I though google’s assistant Gemini
ToxicWaste@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
age verification is just a BS strawman. do you remember when we where young? we would access stuff and find ways to buy stuff. but whenever there was a reasonable but fair gap, it would be much harder to get whatever we wanted: buying weed was so much easier, than buying alcohol (without the appropriate age).
pirating is easy (even i figured it out before having enough money to buy movies & games). so the kids will just pirate that stuff and get their way anyway. age verification at the store makes so much more sense. sure, there are ways to circumvent those. but it is a reasonable stop block.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
When I couldnt buy digital stuff because of age restrictions (e.g. game shops) I at one point figured out that Steam doesnt do that and U vould get Paysafecards to buy them this way.
No need for paypal (which needs an online banking enabled SEPA account or credit card) or a credit card.
ToxicWaste@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
exactly what i am talking about. age restriction at the physical store kept you away for a while, while not forcing an alternative/underground market. however, if you knew the only way to get it is on an alternative store - you would immediately have looked there.
Auli@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Don’t see how pirating well overcome the online age check.
ToxicWaste@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
fivem.net
Matriks404@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
But Rockstar Games acquired FiveM back in 2023, so I don’t see how is that relevant to piracy.