Well idk what how to own a credit card but i owned visa and master card since i was 16. I dont know if steam ever needed my age to be proven.

Originally posted by john:

Thanks to the UK government I have to prove my age. I joined Steam in 2003 but steam doesn't seam to think that makes me over 18 years old. I don't own a credit card.

Any one else wishing Steam would use the age of your account to verify age.

They have to follow the law, and age of steam account is not one of the options offered by your government.

Having a CC on file with steam is on the list of acceptable forms of age proof, and was the easiest for steam / valve to set up and use, as the PP and background access is already in place.

Debit cards are not, due to availability from age 13 onwards.

Age of account has zero relevance.

The Ofcom requirements are:

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;


Valve have chosen credit card as they have the payment processes in place and Ofcom only requires one method to be used.

WHy complan to Steam - go ask UK lawmakers

Originally posted by john:

Thanks to the UK government I have to prove my age. I joined Steam in 2003 but steam doesn't seam to think that makes me over 18 years old. I don't own a credit card.

Any one else wishing Steam would use the age of your account to verify age.

You're making a lot of assumptions about the law and the relevance of Valve's opinion about whether a user is an adult or not.

So yeah, people wish for a lot of things. Imagination run amok is a hell of a drug.

Account age isn't valid under the UK law. Valve is not responsible for your unhappiness with the UK law. Finding ways to blame Valve because you're unhappy about the UK law may not be reasonable.

Originally posted by john:

Thanks to the UK government I have to prove my age.

Then that's where you need to be voicing your complaint towards. Valve's not the one making the law, nor are they the one deciding what counts as proof of age.

Originally posted by Mr. Monday:

Originally posted by john:

Thanks to the UK government I have to prove my age.

Then that's where you need to be voicing your complaint towards. Valve's not the one making the law, nor are they the one deciding what counts as proof of age.

Probably cant without risking arrest lol.

Originally posted by Blunt Raps:

Originally posted by Mr. Monday:

Then that's where you need to be voicing your complaint towards. Valve's not the one making the law, nor are they the one deciding what counts as proof of age.

Probably cant without risking arrest lol.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903

Maybe your government is more into this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV2ViNJFZC8

If you let the scum get away with it in the UK, they will do the same in every country. Then they will expand the fake law to everything.

Originally posted by Crashed:

Originally posted by Blunt Raps:

Probably cant without risking arrest lol.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903

"hey so I have a forum where we talk about trains and I can't comply with the act because it would be way too expensive so I'm just shutting it down and I think that's a bad thing"

OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT RESPONSE: "that's actually a good thing what would be bad is if an adult talked to a child about trains"

Originally posted by Ben Lubar:

Originally posted by Crashed:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903

"hey so I have a forum where we talk about trains and I can't comply with the act because it would be way too expensive so I'm just shutting it down and I think that's a bad thing"

OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT RESPONSE: "that's actually a good thing what would be bad is if an adult talked to a child about trains"

If you read the page, while the government rejected it, it is still going to Parliament for debate.

Originally posted by john:

Thanks to the UK government I have to prove my age. I joined Steam in 2003 but steam doesn't seam to think that makes me over 18 years old. I don't own a credit card.

Any one else wishing Steam would use the age of your account to verify age.

It is the same reason why when an account receives a (for example) vac ban, it is the account receiving it not the account holder. in this case the account is not needing to prove its age, you do.

Always remember to never, ever give the enemy what they want, because it will never be enough.

Originally posted by FOADIron:

Always remember to never, ever give the enemy what they want, because it will never be enough.

That's why on the ESRB prompt I always give 1/1/1900.