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ssimpkin 22 hours ago

don't have credit card

i've been a steam client since 2007 ( i brought football manager every year) I have got over 100 games and DLC's and paid them all with my debit card from the same bank,,i had a credit card because of getting ill i ended up in debt because i couldn't work anymore...now my credit card as seized to stop me from using it....the point is i have been buying games for nearly 19years on steam, which means if i am not over 18 i must have been ordering the games while i was in my mums tummy...please steam use your common sense to relize the people who have been with your long enough by looking at their account and who has been loyal in buying games...............please find another way to validate a persons age please

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HikariLight 21 hours ago

Steam cannot prove that it has been the same user on the account for that entire time.
Account age is never a valid way to determine the age of the accounts user.

And who said you have to purchase a ton of things with the CC?
Make small purchases that you know you could pay off by the end of the week, no one said you have to drown yourself in debt.

Myrth the Plague 17 hours ago

Originally posted by ssimpkin:
i've been a steam client since 2007 ( i brought football manager every year) I have got over 100 games and DLC's and paid them all with my debit card from the same bank,,i had a credit card because of getting ill i ended up in debt because i couldn't work anymore...now my credit card as seized to stop me from using it....the point is i have been buying games for nearly 19years on steam, which means if i am not over 18 i must have been ordering the games while i was in my mums tummy...please steam use your common sense to relize the people who have been with your long enough by looking at their account and who has been loyal in buying games...............please find another way to validate a persons age please

It's not steam's problem. The UK set the laws and steam is beholden to them. Don't blame steam, blame your government.

Beardface31 17 hours ago

Get a credit card.

Nx Machina 17 hours ago

Originally posted by ssimpkin:
i've been a steam client since 2007 ( i brought football manager every year) I have got over 100 games and DLC's and paid them all with my debit card from the same bank,,i had a credit card because of getting ill i ended up in debt because i couldn't work anymore...now my credit card as seized to stop me from using it....the point is i have been buying games for nearly 19years on steam, which means if i am not over 18 i must have been ordering the games while i was in my mums tummy...please steam use your common sense to relize the people who have been with your long enough by looking at their account and who has been loyal in buying games...............please find another way to validate a persons age please

You created your Steam account 21 October 2011.

A credit card is only required for adult only content.

Ofcom are the ones who require a credit card.

1) Age assurance methods – which include age verification, age estimation or a combination of both – must be ‘highly effective’ at correctly determining whether a particular user is a child.

2) They include: open banking, photo ID matching, facial age estimation, mobile network operator age checks, credit card checks, digital identity services and email-based age estimation;

Himitsu 🎑 17 hours ago

I'll probably have to get one as well but isn't it unethical to force people to have to get a credit card?

I've avoided getting one for a long time.

TheStoryteller01 15 hours ago

Originally posted by Himitsu 🎑:
I'll probably have to get one as well but isn't it unethical to force people to have to get a credit card?

I've avoided getting one for a long time.

If so, then it's also unethical to force people to have a bank account or deny them to pay with cash.

And yes, when banking and debit payment was new, we had the very same discussions we have now.