Its getting to a point where It’s getting just depressing.
My account itself is 18 years old. If your account itself is of legal age can you skip age verification?
No peasant! Feed us your data, that we promise won’t get leaked by the end of this sentence!
UK specifically right now, will probably spread soon to other places.
While Sony won’t be requiring age verification for UK and Ireland PlayStation accounts until June, you can verify early and avoid losing access to features. Both Microsoft and Sony are making age verification mandatory in the UK as more parts of the Online Safety Act come into force this year.
Because realistically nobody is against it. People can whine all the want, they will verify anyway rather than miss out on online gaming, social media, porn etc. You personally might be the outlier and maybe you even convinced your family and friends, but sadly unless at the bare minimum 50% of users outright leave the platform enforcing age verification they couldn’t care less about our feelings.
Nobody is against prohibiting children from playing video games ?
Yes. Most would rather kneel.
I’d rather use an old console and play offline. Don’t feed the system by buying more digital.
I’ll be going offline when my OS asks for my ID. I’ve been online since 98 or so. I don’t want to leave, even tho the net is a super shitty place now, but there is just no choice at this time. In the mean time I am building an off line library of stuff
I think it’s more fair to say people will still comply, rather than saying nobody is against it.
It’s amazing how far most people will bend before breaking.
True. Unless you walk away from the platform, in earnest, age verification moves forward.
And it’s not like it says in big red writing on the side of the next console that says “BY PURCHASING THIS CONSOLE YOU WILL NEED TO PROVIDE AGE VERIFICATION OTHERWISE ITS A BRICK”.
I already don’t use the social features of my PS5. I don’t even play online games with it since I ain’t paying extra for that bullshit; I get all my MP games on PC unless they are couch multiplayer games.
It is consoles
Pretty bad look for a company with a horrendous reputation for data leaks.
The age verification company they use was already sued for millions over leaking biometric information.
Not sure which is worse, Sony adding age-gating to PlayStation or The Verge adding pay-gating to the article about it.
The first one, by far.
Paying for news goes back 200+ years.
So wait, this means I can never subscribe to PlayStation Plus again?
Okay.
I never bought the network adapter for my PS2, so they won’t be adding any age verification to it.
Bitch, how you gonna ask me for age verification when the account itself is 18+ years old??
Because it’s identity verification and citizen surveillance. No one pushing this gives a flying fuck about age.
I was thinking that! I got my PS3 early 2008, my account is old enough to vote
If they were to verify your age using the credit card you probably already have on file to pay for the social features they’re age-gating, then that would be one thing. But of course they use a third party biometrics company with a proven history of leaking biometric data and require a government ID or a face scan, neither of which they’ll be getting from me lol.
I can just download PSX bios and roms to Steam Deck though.
wtf why? so, if are too old you can’t play?
Need a law that says that if a company enables age verification, and leak someone’s PII, then that company has to pay for all of each affected individual’s hardships due to the company leak.
Best I can do is six months of free credit monitoring.
And a free download code for little big planet
On psp.
You really mean BEST you can do, since the majority of companies not only do they not pay a single cent, but they don’t even pay you.
And a penalty and mandatory oversight to ensure they fix the problem.
climate change, school shootings, fascists, pandemics, AI, gambling… what’s one more thing?
You’re forgetting the systemic pedophilia
that has always been a thing, i was just listing the new fun stuff.
At the very least, fascism, pandemics and gambling are nothing new.
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Climate change
Poland Spring
Polymarket gambling
Fascists
Smart Bombs
Insider trading
October 7th
trade wars
inflation
Systematic pedophilia
…Almost works to We Didn’t Start the Fire
that was the goal
