Its getting to a point where It’s getting just depressing.
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 for the rest of their life due to the company leak.
Maybe even backwards compatibility as well. If a company requires age verification, then they must fund individuals to obtain individual identification since it’s not free for people or tax payers.
You’ll need to verify your age by June or lose access to PlayStation social features.
don’t threaten me with a good time.
They finally fixed the spam problem.
Bitch, how you gonna ask me for age verification when the account itself is 18+ years old??
climate change, school shootings, fascists, pandemics, AI, gambling… what’s one more thing?
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.
So lately I’ve been playing through games that I wanted to play when I was a kid, but couldn’t. I’m currently in the year 1992. I think I’ll be okay for a few decades. Other people can send their ID’s to their 800€ gaming consoles. I’ll be using my OG xbox as a emulator and Nintendo can go suck my dick about it.
I’m seriously gonna buy a good set of solar panels, build a log cabin in the woods and just live there. I’d probably starve to death but I’m suicidal anyway so it would be a nice adventure before the final release.
I’m doing the same and streaming my experience. I bought a Retrofreak and playing a bunch of obscure Japanese famicom, superfamicom, sega mark iii, master system, mega drive, game gear, game boy, gba, and finally pc-engine games. I live right next to a used game store too. It’s so great. I haven’t bought a new PC game for myself in about a year (I buy switch games for my kids).
Oh! I also hacked my 3ds lately so I’m playing a bunch of games on that too.
I haven’t bought a new-new game in… at least a decade. Last one was No Man’s Sky. You probably understand my reluctance to buy new games after that lol. These days I enjoy NMS quite a bit, but it did take them years of improvements. So the lesson I learned is to not buy a game until its at least 3-5 years old.
After realizing that there isn’t really games for me anymore, I’m not interested in running through 3000 zombies so I can get a new and better shotgun so I can run through 5000 zombies… I decided that I’m just gonna go back with a time machine. First I replayed stuff like Escape From Monkey Island, Jazz Jackrabbit and other classics. Then I started to go through games I didn’t get to play and tbh, its been great fun. A bit of a faff to set up the emulators and whatnot, but once that is done its easy going.
I really should dig out my old 3DS XL. I left lots of unfinished games on that flash cart.
You should, it has a great library. It’s also so easy to hack and download old games. Basically has a free appstore of games from the 3DS, DS, and GBA eras.
I’m seriously gonna buy a good set of solar panels, build a log cabin in the woods and just live there.
HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
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.
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.
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
Nobody is against prohibiting children from playing video games ?
So wait, this means I can never subscribe to PlayStation Plus again?
Okay.
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.
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.
I can just download PSX bios and roms to Steam Deck though.
We’re in for a good time again!
I know this isn’t the point, but ffs The Verge. “Add age verification to it is consoles”? Seriously?
that appears to be OP’s headline, not from The Verge.
Yeah, autocorrect got me on my phone — fixed now 👍
Oh, well then “seriously, OP?” Though in this case the grammar issues are not as bad, because I expect professional media organisations to hold themselves to higher standards than randoms on the Internet.
Though it adds a layer because I hate when people editorialise headlines without it being clear that that’s what was done. It’s misleading and in this case was totally unnecessary, since the un-editorialised headline got the message across just fine.
