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Valve Made $1 Billion From CS Cases Last Year, Data Claims (insider-gaming.com)
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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm not including debit cards.

I'm also not a fan of going cashless. I'm just saying that, in the absence of a better way of verifying age that doesn't violate privacy, credit cards work pretty well.

Perhaps we can come up with a token-based system where you can verify your age without either the game knowing your identity or the age verification service knowing what's requesting it. I don't trust politicians to make such a system properly, so I think the credit card option is a reasonable approach.

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But then also many people don't have credit cards - they're frowned upon in many countries with a more debt-averse culture.

Whatever the solution is, it seems like it would end up being something country-specific and not something that scales well across the internet. Probably credit cards work for the US, but then we'd need to find something that works for the remaining 95% of the world population.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago

Cool, then those people need to prove their age another way.

There should also be a law that private companies cannot store personally identifiable information (e.g. your ID details) unless specifically required to by law. So if they want to get people to play a predatory game, they need to find a way to prove age without violating privacy.