Valve: “We need a credit card on file to prove you’re 18”
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@SIT @SecurityWriter They may have change stance (dunno where the screenshot is from), but it was not their original idea: https://andregarzia.com/2026/03/apple-just-lost-me.html
@rberthier @SecurityWriter Interesting, I saw this on Reddit a few days ago from a UK user and cut the screenshot before saving it.
I also noticed a user explain how (hard it was) to get the driver's license accepted to a user who hadn't managed it, so it might not function as reliably as it should.
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Valve: “We need a credit card on file to prove you’re 18”
Me: “My account is 23 years old”
Valve: “That just proves your account is old”
Me: “A credit card just proves you know someone with a credit card”
@SecurityWriter anyone with a debit card in the US or Canada has a “credit card” for all intents and purposes! LOL
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@rberthier @SecurityWriter Interesting, I saw this on Reddit a few days ago from a UK user and cut the screenshot before saving it.
I also noticed a user explain how (hard it was) to get the driver's license accepted to a user who hadn't managed it, so it might not function as reliably as it should.
@rberthier @SecurityWriter This was from the comments here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/1s3cwxz/
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Valve: “We need a credit card on file to prove you’re 18”
Me: “My account is 23 years old”
Valve: “That just proves your account is old”
Me: “A credit card just proves you know someone with a credit card”
@SecurityWriter 23 years is impressive, I'm holding at the 21 years mark.
Which they give you fucking BADGE for that's the FIRST THING on your profile.
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@SecurityWriter using a desktop is dating yourself. as an old fart.
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@SecurityWriter You can't say meaningful things to bureacracy, even worse to bureacracy created for people control.
BTW even my Steam account dates back to portal creation, λ2@luc0x61 @SecurityWriter mine goes back to when steam was a replacement for O.G. HL's multiplayer service, WoN. My account name is an email address itself
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Valve: “We need a credit card on file to prove you’re 18”
Me: “My account is 23 years old”
Valve: “That just proves your account is old”
Me: “A credit card just proves you know someone with a credit card”
@SecurityWriter Interesting because apparently you can't report a game featured on Steam any more. This one promotes incest. I'm referring the DLC of the latest Street Fighter, which received some criticism yesterday because it features a character engaged in incest. To further make this known, the company is Capcom. There has been backlash about this, but Capcom kinda went "hehehe."
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@luc0x61 @SecurityWriter mine goes back to when steam was a replacement for O.G. HL's multiplayer service, WoN. My account name is an email address itself
@draeath @SecurityWriter HL1 was already a game changer for me. I started playing FPS when Doom was on a set of 1.44M floppy disks, and its pseudo-3D gameplay was real magic, running on an i286 below 20MHz clock.
HL brought a real, movie like, story, in 3D gaming. That was amazing, and it still is, if you look beyond the now pixelated screens.
The only other game that brought me adrenaline, even when standing still, is HL:Alyx, played in VR. That leaves speechless. -
Valve: “We need a credit card on file to prove you’re 18”
Me: “My account is 23 years old”
Valve: “That just proves your account is old”
Me: “A credit card just proves you know someone with a credit card”
@SecurityWriter How old is "Valve"?
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@SecurityWriter 23 years is impressive, I'm holding at the 21 years mark.
Which they give you fucking BADGE for that's the FIRST THING on your profile.
@thomasfuchs @SecurityWriter Only 18 for me, but you can change what badge your profile features. Mine has the "Steam Hardware Beta Candidate" to remind me of that time Gaben rug-pulled me.
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@thomasfuchs @SecurityWriter Only 18 for me, but you can change what badge your profile features. Mine has the "Steam Hardware Beta Candidate" to remind me of that time Gaben rug-pulled me.
@woe2you @SecurityWriter lolol
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@thomasfuchs @SecurityWriter I still covet the Steambox beta chassis, but I know my chances of ever getting hold of one are slim to none.
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@maia@shrimp.magmaus3.eu.org aren't you, like, not British?
Steam requiring a credit card is only in the UK. where people under 18 cannot get a credit card by law. they can have a debit card, but Steam demands specifically a credit card for age verification. -
@draeath @SecurityWriter HL1 was already a game changer for me. I started playing FPS when Doom was on a set of 1.44M floppy disks, and its pseudo-3D gameplay was real magic, running on an i286 below 20MHz clock.
HL brought a real, movie like, story, in 3D gaming. That was amazing, and it still is, if you look beyond the now pixelated screens.
The only other game that brought me adrenaline, even when standing still, is HL:Alyx, played in VR. That leaves speechless.@luc0x61 @draeath @SecurityWriter See, now we know you're making this up, because DOOM required an i386 or better …
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Valve: “We need a credit card on file to prove you’re 18”
Me: “My account is 23 years old”
Valve: “That just proves your account is old”
Me: “A credit card just proves you know someone with a credit card”
@SecurityWriter by asking for a credit card the circle of surveillance is complete.
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@lunareclipse@snug.moe @maia@shrimp.magmaus3.eu.org yeah . lots of actual adults in the UK were/are unable to verify easily on steam due to literally not having a credit card lol. so it's clearly a very flawed way of verifying the age of your customers. but I kinda get why they did it this way - it is one of the least intrusive methods of doing it, given that Steam users already provide payment information. it minimizes the amount of data that they actually collect because Wow It Would Not Be Fun To Have To Present My Passport To Valve If I Was British.
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Valve: “We need a credit card on file to prove you’re 18”
Me: “My account is 23 years old”
Valve: “That just proves your account is old”
Me: “A credit card just proves you know someone with a credit card”
@SecurityWriter considering my name, address, and SS number have all been leaked at least 3 times now I don't think having a credit card even proves you know someone with a credit card anymore.
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Ok this is interesting.
The desktop app has no such restrictions, only mobile.
@SecurityWriter my favorite is apps that offer webauthn features on their mobile app, but desktop doesn't offer 2FA? Da fuq? Do they have an actual fucking potato doing their threat modeling?
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@luc0x61 @draeath @SecurityWriter See, now we know you're making this up, because DOOM required an i386 or better …
@farbenstau @draeath @SecurityWriter Well, you make me doubt of my memories, but I remember that at that division we still had "286 at the time. Quite confident that a guy on the purchasing dept. had a '286 when we played 4 players deathmatch on local Novell IPX network.
Did we already switch to 386?
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@farbenstau @draeath @SecurityWriter Well, you make me doubt of my memories, but I remember that at that division we still had "286 at the time. Quite confident that a guy on the purchasing dept. had a '286 when we played 4 players deathmatch on local Novell IPX network.
Did we already switch to 386?@luc0x61 @draeath @SecurityWriter https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/a4yi5t/original_doom_system_requirements_from_my_25_year/ here's a copy of the original spec thas lists i386 as minimum, i486 as recommended. I seriously doubt a DOS extender would have worked on an i286, anyway …
