IF I REMOVE A CREDIT CARD IT DOESNT MAKE ME YOUNGER
So I have the misfortune to live in the uk. So steam requires “verification” I’m over 18. It will only allow a credit card to do this, not a debit card.

If you remove that card from your account after, steam will remove the over 18 verification from your account.

This makes no logical sense and I can only see it as them wanting to make sure people have a line of credit attached to their account so people can keep buying games when they can’t afford it.

This practice is hella immoral, I can see no justification for removing the verification.

Especially on accounts (such as mine) that are over 21 years old. Steam accounts are not transferable, so I must have owned it that entire time, so how can I be under 18?
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Tito Shivan 10 月 2 日 上午 3:44 
引用自 SleepingZombie
This makes no logical sense
It avoids a single CC doing the rounds to 'validate' lots of adult users. It's an anti-fraud feature.

The actual inconvenience is Steam tying the verification to the stored payment method. It may of convenience for people to NOT have the CC stored for purchase purposes but just for verification purposes.
Jaunitta 🌸 10 月 2 日 上午 3:44 
Sorry to hear it. Here's one think you could try
How to Change Your Steam Mature Content Settings!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7R3M_CaWS4
 KARR™ 10 月 2 日 上午 5:14 
引用自 Jaunitta 🌸
Sorry to hear it. Here's one think you could try
How to Change Your Steam Mature Content Settings!

Its nothing to do with content settings. It's the UK Online Safety bill. Some sites require ID to confirm, Steam have gone down the road of confirming with a credit card. Imgur have cut access to the UK off entirely!!
最后由  KARR™ 编辑于; 10 月 2 日 上午 5:14
Nx Machina 10 月 2 日 上午 5:35 
引用自 SleepingZombie
So I have the misfortune to live in the uk. So steam requires “verification” I’m over 18. It will only allow a credit card to do this, not a debit card.

If you remove that card from your account after, steam will remove the over 18 verification from your account.

This makes no logical sense and I can only see it as them wanting to make sure people have a line of credit attached to their account so people can keep buying games when they can’t afford it.

This practice is hella immoral, I can see no justification for removing the verification.

Especially on accounts (such as mine) that are over 21 years old. Steam accounts are not transferable, so I must have owned it that entire time, so how can I be under 18?

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.
AmsterdamHeavy 10 月 2 日 上午 6:04 
So leave the credit card there for verification and when it comes time to pay for a purchase choose "another payment type".

I agree it is hardly optimal, but I assume that would function as a work around. You dont HAVE to use the stored credit card.
Supafly 10 月 2 日 上午 7:15 
Wouldn't mind so much if it just kept it on file/linked to the account, but not saved for use. I can't just start making purchases with the CC without having to enter it's details again. I don't save cards on any account.
Yojimbo 10 月 2 日 上午 7:45 
The worst part about this is that credit card ownership in the UK is pretty uncommon. None of my friends or family have ever even owned a credit card.
As an age assurance method its pretty bad for the specific country's bill its addressing. Would be nice if steam offered alternative methods at least.
crunchyfrog 10 月 2 日 上午 8:37 
引用自 Supafly
Wouldn't mind so much if it just kept it on file/linked to the account, but not saved for use. I can't just start making purchases with the CC without having to enter it's details again. I don't save cards on any account.

That could fly in the face of data protection laws.

The sad reality here is that under the UK's recent age laws, this is a thing.

I don't know what the OP is doing but I can only speak for myself in saying that I have access to over 18 content and I haven't had a credit card since 1987.

I don't use credit at all, so it's always been strictly debit card on here.

And of course, contrary to what the OP says, it has BUGGER ALL to do with lines of credit - that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
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