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From next week, Australia will require users to verify their age to play GTA Online and other R18+ online games (www.pcgamer.com)
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The age assurance future is coming for games.

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[–] Bazell@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 months ago

If you implement a weak age verification method, there will be a tonn of kids with fake IDs. If you implement a way to strong age verification method, you will get much less customers since not every adult will want to share his personal info to play a game.